- OmniWeb is now signed with Developer ID so it works well with Gatekeeper on Mountain Lion.
OmniWeb for Mac
OmniWeb 5.11.2
Released July 20 2012 — Requires Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later
OmniWeb 5.11.1
Released December 16 2011 — Requires Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later
- Improved stability on Lion.
OmniWeb 5.11
Released June 20 2011 — Requires Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later
- Updated WebKit to match Safari 5.0.5.
- Fixed a long-standing regression where bookmark syncing and bookmark checking wouldn't prompt to allow connections to self-signed https servers.
- Addressed some compatibility issues with future versions of OS X.
OmniWeb 5.10.3
Released November 17 2010 — Requires Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later
OmniWeb 5.10.3:
- Fixes a crash encountered if you were running on Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger'.
OmniWeb 5.10.2:
Compatibility
- Fixed issues with stale cookies getting resurrected when loading cached resources which had originally been sent with a cookie. This fixes some session problems with a number of sites, including sites based on the latest version of Best Practical's RT.
- Fixed a bug where explicitly downloading a file wouldn't send the correct set of cookies. (This meant that you would sometimes try to download a link or image and would end up with a login page rather than the expected file.)
- The agent string now includes the version of OmniWeb to improve compatibility with browser sniffers like the one on www.google.com. Also include Safari 5 as an available agent to spoof.
- Integrated the Safari 4.0.4 version of WebKit. (We looked at integrating the Safari 5 WebKit, but that was more destabilizing and we wanted to ship this stable build first.)
- Worked around a WebKit bug which was breaking Gopher Search.
- Fixed a bug with OmniWeb's handling of Unicode URLs sent by other applications (such as shortened Daring Fireball links from Twitterific).
Interface
- Opening a page in a separate tab now correctly updates the visited link color in all other tabs and windows.
- The Bookmarks menu no longer has two separators in a row following Favorites on Snow Leopard.
- The Delete key once again deletes entries in bookmarks, history, and downloads.
- Fixed a bug where source files created within OmniWeb were being quarantined as if they were downloaded from the internet.
- In the Print dialog, the Clip pagination setting now correctly scales content from web coordinates (96dpi) to print coordinates (72dpi). (This means that web content which specifies that it's 5.0 inches wide will now be sent to the printer as exactly 5.0 inches wide.)
- In the Print dialog, you also now have the option to print without margins, so you can print a web page which is designed to exactly fill a piece of paper.
- Fixed an issue where the services menu wasn't being populated with options.
- Fixed an issue where using services that are meant to effect selected text in the web page were instead just providing the page title and URL
- The tab drawer now remembers whether it's open on the normal side or the alternate side (rather than right or left), so you can change your preference and have all your existing workspaces switch sides.
- Fixed a long-standing bug where a workspace window's drawer preference could be ignored if the window was close enough to the edge of the screen that the drawer would no longer fit on that side. (OmniWeb will always makes room for the drawer when opening it, but the system didn't realize this so it was changing the drawer's preferred edge.)
Stability
- Fixed a crash when trying to add or remove auto-fill terms.
- Made the built-in software update a little more robust.
- Fixed a crash triggered by using AppleScript to get the source of a tab which doesn't have any source data (which you can reproduce with "get source of (make new tab)").
- Fixed some memory leaks.
Localizations
- Updated the German localization.
- Updated the French localization.
- Gave the text at the bottom of the French Tab and Window preference pane more room to prevent it from being cut off.
OmniWeb 5.10.2
Released October 26 2010 — Requires Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later
Compatibility
- Fixed issues with stale cookies getting resurrected when loading cached resources which had originally been sent with a cookie. This fixes some session problems with a number of sites, including sites based on the latest version of Best Practical's RT.
- Fixed a bug where explicitly downloading a file wouldn't send the correct set of cookies. (This meant that you would sometimes try to download a link or image and would end up with a login page rather than the expected file.)
- The agent string now includes the version of OmniWeb to improve compatibility with browser sniffers like the one on www.google.com. Also include Safari 5 as an available agent to spoof.
- Integrated the Safari 4.0.4 version of WebKit. (We looked at integrating the Safari 5 WebKit, but that was more destabilizing and we wanted to ship this stable build first.)
- Worked around a WebKit bug which was breaking Gopher Search.
- Fixed a bug with OmniWeb's handling of Unicode URLs sent by other applications (such as shortened Daring Fireball links from Twitterific).
Interface
- Opening a page in a separate tab now correctly updates the visited link color in all other tabs and windows.
- The Bookmarks menu no longer has two separators in a row following Favorites on Snow Leopard.
- The Delete key once again deletes entries in bookmarks, history, and downloads.
- Fixed a bug where source files created within OmniWeb were being quarantined as if they were downloaded from the internet.
- In the Print dialog, the Clip pagination setting now correctly scales content from web coordinates (96dpi) to print coordinates (72dpi). (This means that web content which specifies that it's 5.0 inches wide will now be sent to the printer as exactly 5.0 inches wide.)
- In the Print dialog, you also now have the option to print without margins, so you can print a web page which is designed to exactly fill a piece of paper.
- Fixed an issue where the services menu wasn't being populated with options.
- Fixed an issue where using services that are meant to effect selected text in the web page were instead just providing the page title and URL
- The tab drawer now remembers whether it's open on the normal side or the alternate side (rather than right or left), so you can change your preference and have all your existing workspaces switch sides.
- Fixed a long-standing bug where a workspace window's drawer preference could be ignored if the window was close enough to the edge of the screen that the drawer would no longer fit on that side. (OmniWeb will always makes room for the drawer when opening it, but the system didn't realize this so it was changing the drawer's preferred edge.)
Stability
- Fixed a crash when trying to add or remove auto-fill terms.
- Made the built-in software update a little more robust.
- Fixed a crash triggered by using AppleScript to get the source of a tab which doesn't have any source data (which you can reproduce with "get source of (make new tab)").
- Fixed some memory leaks.
Localizations
- Updated the German localization.
- Updated the French localization.
- Gave the text at the bottom of the French Tab and Window preference pane more room to prevent it from being cut off.
OmniWeb 5.10.1
Released August 28 2009 — Requires Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later
- Updated Italian, Japanese, German, French, and Chinese localizations.
- Fixed an issue where clicking to load blocked iframes had no effect.
OmniWeb 5.10
Released August 27 2009 — Requires Mac OS X 10.4.8 or higher
Features
- Integrated the Safari 4.0.3 version of WebKit. This version of WebKit is blazingly fast, Acid 3 compliant, and adds a bunch of great new features for web developers (mostly hidden in the context menu under "Inspect Element").
- Implemented ground-breaking support for the revolutionary Gopher protocol—a first for WebKit-based browsers! For a list of Gopher servers, see the Floodgap list. Enjoy!
- You can once again drag one or more tabs onto the main content area of a window to move them to that window, holding down Option to copy them. (It has always been possible to drag tabs from one tab drawer to another, but now you can drag to a window even when its tab drawer is closed.)
- You can now use Applescript to set the active tab in a browser window.
10.6 (Snow Leopard) Compatibility
- Fixed a crash when using the workspace window to switch between workspaces.
- Updated OmniWeb's crash catcher to be compatible with Snow Leopard.
- Several behind-the-scenes updates to the built-in software update feature, and one very useful new feature: you can now tell software update to ignore a specific update.
Miscellaneous
- Saved images and files should have more reasonable filenames, now.
- Made our user agent string a little more truthful.
- Fixed a bug where sometimes hitting right arrow in a text field would move your cursor to the end of the text incorrectly.
- New browser windows will now cascade their position based on the position of the frontmost browser window. They're also now willing to position themselves above their starting position, and closer to the edges of their available space.
- When you haven't locked down a particular window size, OmniWeb will now remember the last position you moved a window to, not the last position one was opened in.
- When OmniWeb creates a new window next to a window of a different size, it now correctly positions the new window relative to the top left corner of the reference window rather than its bottom left corner.
- Browser windows now snap to common widths such as 800 or 1024 pixels when resized.
- Fixed a bug where digest authentication would sometimes repeatedly prompt for a password even though the supplied password was valid.
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Set our image display behavior to match Safari's with regard to shrinking standalone images to fit the window. If you'd rather have the old behavior, there's a hidden default:
defaults write com.omnigroup.OmniWeb5 WebKitShrinkStandaloneImagesToFit -bool false - Updated Omni's code signing certificate.
- Localization updates for French and Italian.
OmniWeb 5.9.2
Released April 01 2009 — Requires Mac OS X 10.4.8 or higher
- Implemented ground-breaking support for the revolutionary Gopher protocol—a first for WebKit-based browsers! For a list of Gopher servers, see the Floodgap list. Enjoy!
OmniWeb 5.9.1
Released March 11 2009
Features
- Auto-closing tab drawer: If the tab drawer was automatically opened when you created multiple tabs, it will now automatically close when you return to a single tab. (If you manually opened the tab drawer, it will stay open until you manually close it.)
- Added support for three-finger swipes on recent laptops: swiping left and right goes back and forth in history; swiping up and down switches to the previous or next tab.
- You can now send the current web page to OmniFocus (using its clippings service) without having to select some text on the page first. Please note that this feature requires OmniFocus 1.6 (or later).
- Navigating web pages using speech recognition works once again. (Speech recognition must be turned on in System Preferences, as well as being enabled in OmniWeb's General Preferences. You can then say the name of a link to follow it, or use built-in commands link "new tab", "next tab", "go back", etc.)
- Reimplemented the Summarize toolbar item.
- Dragging the last tab out of a window will now close that window.
Compatibility
- Added support for download links which use the HTTP Content-Disposition header.
- Added support for the JavaScript print action (window.print()).
- OmniWeb no longer displays an empty page when it receives a HTTP 204 "no content" status code. This fixes bugs with several rating systems.
- Using Click-Hold to activate the context menu in browser windows is now disabled by default, since that breaks compatibility with some web pages which want to see the mouse-down event immediately (before we determine that it's actually a click-hold event). You can turn Click-Hold back on by setting the hidden ActivateContextMenuWithClickHold default.
Miscellaneous
- Added Release Notes to the Help menu.
- Fixed a bug where clicks would land in the wrong place if a hidden location bar was temporarily visible (because you were editing it with Command-L) and you clicked in the browser (causing it to hide again).
- The Open window can now be closed by pressing the Escape key (in addition to Command-W). The window's tab cycle also now includes all its controls.
- Bookmarklets are now labeled properly when dragging them to the favorites bar.
- Command-Shift-Left Arrow now performs the standard text editing behavior of selecting to the beginning of a line of text, rather than taking you back to your start page.
- If your navigation bar is hidden and you press Shift-Command-F to go to the search field, OmniWeb will no longer show and hide the navigation bar before showing it yet again.
- Tweaked the favorites bar background.
- Updated the default start pages.
- Localization updates for Simplified Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Swedish.
OmniWeb 5.9
Released February 24 2009 — Requires Mac OS X 10.4.8 or higher
- OmniWeb is now free!
OmniWeb 5.8
Released September 26 2008 — Requires Mac OS X 10.4.8 or higher
WebKit
- This release is primarily an update to the version of WebKit in use by OmniWeb. OmniWeb is now based on the same WebKit in use by Safari 3.1. This includes the latest security patches and features included with Safari 3.1.x such as downloadable fonts, CSS Animation, HTML 5 media tags and client side database storage.
Bugs
- When using Leopard's Spaces, OmniWeb will no longer switch spaces when entering a URL or creating a new workspace.
- Added support for non-POSIX file URLs, improving compatibility with Dreamweaver and other Carbon and Classic apps.
Interface
- Polished up the toolbar icons.
- Google Chrome is now included in the list of user agents.
OmniWeb 5.1.3
Released February 02 2006 — Requires Requires Mac OS X 10.2.8 or 10.3.9 and later.
- This is the final release that runs on 10.2 and 10.3 systems.
Download
OmniWeb is a free application! Enjoy! Requires Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later to run.
What's New
Latest release: July 20 2012
- OmniWeb is now signed with Developer ID so it works well with Gatekeeper on Mountain Lion.