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OW5.0 final is out (Page 11)
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Originally Posted by sideus
Any info on compatibility of OmniWeb 5.1 and OS X 10.4?
I don't know if you guys have noticed that there hasn't been an update since January, but development on OW has basically *stopped*. And if you're not worried about the future of the browser, I am
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I wouldn't be worried about it. OG isn't going to let OW die.
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Originally Posted by Le Flaneur
I don't know if you guys have noticed that there hasn't been an update since January, but development on OW has basically *stopped*. And if you're not worried about the future of the browser, I am
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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I get the feeling that there may well be some sort of uber update for Tiger. although then again we all know how lazy OmniGroup are...
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Worry not.... I am sure OW will be just fine. If they just quickly copied all of the new features in Safari (RSS browsing, searching etc) and added on some smart folder technology, that would be great.
OW5.1 works like a charm for me.
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Originally Posted by BZ
Worry not.... I am sure OW will be just fine. If they just quickly copied all of the new features in Safari (RSS browsing, searching etc) and added on some smart folder technology, that would be great.
OW5.1 works like a charm for me.
It needs work, and the economics of it do not look good. It's hard to compete with what is free.
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Originally Posted by Le Flaneur
It needs work, and the economics of it do not look good. It's hard to compete with what is free.
I don't agree.
OW5 will STILL have features that no other browser has and still works better (if not faster) than any other browser out there.
Safari RSS take a good leap forward, but you still get what you pay for and as far as I am concerned Safari RSS is NOT free, it is part of a package of software you get for $129. Maybe it is $10 or $15 but it is not free.
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Originally Posted by Le Flaneur
It needs work, and the economics of it do not look good. It's hard to compete with what is free.
what's with the doom and gloom?
Omniweb has pretty much always been competing with free options. It survived IE, Safari, Camino, and Firefox introductions. At least a while ago, it was still Omnigroup's #1 product, and is still, far and away, my favorite browser.
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Originally Posted by BZ
Safari RSS take a good leap forward, but you still get what you pay for and as far as I am concerned Safari RSS is NOT free, it is part of a package of software you get for $129. Maybe it is $10 or $15 but it is not free.
Tiger has "over 150 new features" so Safari 2.0 is about 85 cents.
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any chance os a OW update to use the new webcore in 10.3.9?
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It does indeed use the new WebCore. I find OW 5.1 faster under 10.3.9.
On a different note, I think the next major revision to OW could use Spotlight to make smart folders for bookmarks. That would be handy, I think.
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it automatically uses the new webcore? cool. i though omni changed a few things in the webcore before they used it?
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It does not automatically use the new webcore.
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Originally Posted by Catfish_Man
It does not automatically use the new webcore.
ah didnt think it would, as usually we have to wait. im assuming we will have to wait for tiger and then we can get a new fancy version with a faster webcore and nicee tiger additions.
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really? I thought it hooked into the new webcore. Because it's noticably faster (like Safari) since the update.
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Originally Posted by ctbritt
really? I thought it hooked into the new webcore. Because it's noticably faster (like Safari) since the update.
That's probably thanks to the system optimization. My feeling is that OW is more susceptible to fragmentation - after system optimization following OS update or security update, OW gets faster.
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It's amazing how much the popularity of OmniWeb has fallen over the years. About 4-5 years ago, an OmniWeb thread would be the most popular thread here. Today, they released a major update and there has only been one post.
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I think that's partially due to them opening their own forums. Personally, I'm just as big a fan (if not bigger) as I always have been.
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I'm trying out 5.5 on my iMac. So far I like it.
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Originally Posted by TimmyDee51
I think that's partially due to them opening their own forums. Personally, I'm just as big a fan (if not bigger) as I always have been.
More likely it is because the competition at the time consisted of Internet Explorer (utter crap) , iCab (still felt like an OS9 app) and Mozilla (utter crap at the time), and that was it. Then Chimera/Camino came out followed by Firefox and Safari as well as others such as Shiira. In other words, OmniWeb is not the only decent MacOS X browser out there any more.
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