Why is Omniweb Just the Pokey Puppy of Browsers

[Forrest Corbett]

On Jan 2, 2006, at 3:12 PM, DV Henkel-Wallace wrote:

> OW doesn't scale well when you use it heavily.  However I cannot  
> compare it to other browsers since I cannot survive any more  
> without Workspaces or thumb tabs.
>
> I think with no history and only one browser with no thumbs it's  
> reasonably fast.  But I usually have about 10 browsers some with 40  
> or 50 thumbs.  Apparently this is considered "heavy."

Depending on hardware, that's true. I have my wife use Safari on a  
PBG4 500/768MB/40GB 5400RPM for that reason. Coming from IE on  
Windows, tabs, spellchecking... is good enough for the casual surfer.  
She probably visits as many pages per day as I have open at any given  
time.

Since upgrading myself from a dual 800/1.25GB to a dual 2.7/4.5GB, OW  
scales MUCH better.

-Forrest