The Omni Group Announces OmniWeb 5.0

[Kevin Lee Allen]

Maybe I'm a whacko. i love OmniWeb. i also love the fact that it does 
not seem to be the driving force behind the company, although it seems 
to be moving tot he forefront of the company's product line. that is 
good.

Slower than Safari, maybe, depends on the site. i use Safari for 
somethings, Omniweb for others. None the less, I was able to kill IE, 
pretty much with OmniWeb.

As a basic web developer, i have been more than pleased with their 
growth, but then, i no longer care about IE.

This is a terrific product and it keeps a) getting better and b) 
leading the ay.

Thanks to those who make it happen.




On Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 02:31  PM, 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.
>
> 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 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.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Scott M.
> The Omni Group
>
> On Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 09:10  AM, Phill R Kenoyer wrote:
>
>> All I wanted from Omniweb was a fast, stable browser.  I wanted 
>> tool-tips for titles (like other browsers), I wanted a way to turn 
>> cookies on for the site I'm looking at via hot key, and I wanted the 
>> settings to be sane like other browsers (IE borders default to 1 for 
>> anchor tags).  What I bought was a buggy browser that I can't even 
>> use.  4.5 is terrible.  It crashes way way too much and it's the 
>> slowest of all browsers.  There are things I really love about it, 
>> and I bought it for those reasons.  But I can't use it because it 
>> crashes left and right.
>>
>> Now version 5 is coming out.  I have to pay again if I want to use 
>> it.  I don't think I'm going to pay for v5 after getting burned on 
>> v4.5.  I'm done.  I'll just use Safari if I have to.  I even bought a 
>> copy for my wife, who will not even use it because she uses eBay and 
>> OW4.5 is useless for eBay.  So I have two copies of OW that I don't 
>> use.
>>
>> What a shame.  I'm very disappointed.
>
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