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OmniWeb Announces 5.0 Browser

Posted by pudge on from the i-ll-buy-that-for-a-dollar dept.

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."

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  1. Stingy Location Bar by rixstep · · Score: 2, Troll

    I don't like the way they just let content run off the bottom of the page. They've always done that, and I don't like it. They should, IMHO, put a discreet narrow white space at the bottom. I don't know. I know it just doesn't look right for me the way it is - it feels 'half baked'.

    Their location bar, with all the other doodads they've already got up there, is about wide enough for 'apple.com' but no more. I suspect this is going to be a real pain for users of the new version.

    And I've had no joy with ever getting OW to run for more than a few minutes without crashing all over the place - and not when rendering web pages, but when trying the possible in configuration settings and the like.

    And all the Omni PR people have had to say about that is: 'a lot of our users don't experience crashes'. So wow - that's how you deal with crashes at Omni Group support?

    No thanks. I got Safari if I want, and Safari is an honest effort, and Safari is not playing leap frog or riding on the tails of anyone else's efforts. Omni should first attempt to get their own browser out the door without crashing all over the place; when they've demonstrated they too can write solid code, then they can do what they want.

    Creating a souped-up version of Safari might give them back a market niche, but it's not honest the way they're going at it, IMHO. Show you can write a browser first - then worry about the doodads. I for one will not go near OW5 until I hear the word that Omni have suddenly learned how to produce good, stable code.