The Omni Group Announces OmniWeb 5.0

[Phill R Kenoyer]

On Jan 1, 2004, at 11:31 AM, Scott M. wrote:
> Instability when surfing eBay has been corrected in version 5 and we 
> will be including that fix in an update to 4.5.  If you are 
> experiencing frequent crashes that do not seem to be related to eBay, 
> please contact us using the 'Send Feedback...' item in OmniWeb's Help 
> menu.  For the fastest possible diagnosis of the problem, it would be 
> useful if you could include the text of one or more CrashCatcher 
> reports.

Just to clarify, it's not just eBay.  Many sites crash the browser and 
I send the crash reports every time.

> Regarding cookies, OmniWeb 5.0 includes a completely new cookies 
> interface including a 'passive cookie prompt' in the new browser 
> status bar that allows you to manage cookies for a particular site 
> without having to open preferences or have prompting turned on all the 
> time.

I have suggested before, and I'll suggest it again.  This is what I 
would love to have in OW.  Reject all cookies by default (no need to 
add them to a database that will get huge and slow things down).  Then 
when I go to a site that I want to allow cookies I can select from a 
menu item or hot key to allow cookies for the site I'm viewing.  This 
would be perfect!

> I am sorry that you are so disappointed with OmniWeb.  Hopefully 
> OmniWeb 4.5.1 will address some of the issues that you have, and I 
> hope that you will also give version 5 a try when it is released.

I'll be most happy when the update comes and it fixes most (all) of my 
problems.  I've been waiting for it for months.  I know that it's not 
easy to find and correct the problems.  I'm just very surprised that it 
was released in the condition that it was released in.