OmniWeb Announces 5.0 Browser

wcbrown writes "OmniGroup, makers of the popular Mac OS X browser OmniWeb have announced the upcoming beta of their next-generation browser. There's going to be tabs and they're not like any other browser out there. There's going to be a way to save and share your browsing state so you can restore your window locations and the URLs in them. There's going to be some cool nice-to-haves like integrated RSS reading, per-site preferences, and search shortcuts. The beta will be available February 2, 2004."

Comments

better than Safari?

[AssFace]

I like Safari enough, but there are a few annoyances I have with it and if they could be fixed, I would be one happy fellow.

The biggest of all of them being the crashes - my Safari crashes once a day and it drives me nuts. There is the crash that sucks up all of the CPU and freezes up the machine (well, doesn't entirely freeze it up, but slows it down to being unusable until you force quit the app), and there is the crash where the entire program and all of its windows disappear with no warning - fantastic.

It would be nice if I could open a window that is an entirely different entity than any of the other windows that are open.
If I have Safari open to Slashdot, and it crashes, then it shouldn't also bring down all other Safari windows.
IE on Windows allows me to spawn new instances of IE and have them on a site - that way, if it crashes, only the windows associated with that instance crash.
On a Mac, I don't know of a way to do that.

I'm going to have a look at OmniWeb here and see if it is my new browser of choice or not (IE on Mac and Camino sure as hell aren't).