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OmniWeb now free and most likely dead
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It's a web browser that almost everyone used in the pre 10.0 - 10.2 days but is rarely used by anyone now. So I've heard anyway.
Oh, I almost forgot. It had this unique feature where you had to pay for it.
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Well, the honcho of OmniGroup said that they'll give it away for free because it is no longer under active development. BTW, I just bought OmniFocus today, they make very nice, intuitive apps.
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For those who don't know, OmniWeb is one of OS X's oldest browsers. It was a nice option for its time but never really found a niche that was viable. And once Safari was announced, I think everyone at Omni realized that there wasn't much of a future for their independent browser.
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OmniWeb was a wonderful app - a real OS X posterchild.
It was my exclusive browser until Safari was released.
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I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
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OmniWeb wasn't a wonderful app... it still is a wonderful app. Since version 5 was first made public in 2004 it is truly depressing that there isn't a single browser out there that can match its site specific preferences and Workspaces features, nor (for those that like them) the visual tabs. There are extensions for Firefox that do half the job for some of these, but half the job = totally crap in comparison. It's tragic that much, much worse browsers have killed it off and still can't beat its built-in feature set. Fwiw, the cost to me of using OmniWeb day-in, day out since 2001 has been a grand total of $30. That is all, and during that time I've enjoyed features that other browsers took years to gain as well as ones that they still don't have. Not happy about this news.
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
For those who don't know, OmniWeb is one of OS X's oldest browsers. It was a nice option for its time but never really found a niche that was viable. And once Safari was announced, I think everyone at Omni realized that there wasn't much of a future for their independent browser.
IIRC, OmniWeb was actually the first ever commercial browser on any platform (NeXT) so its heritage stretches much further back than OS X.
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Originally Posted by JKT
there isn't a single browser out there that can match its site specific preferences and Workspaces features...
While there isn't any other browser that has Workspaces, iCab at least has site specific preferences. And like OW, it uses WebKit as its rendering engine.
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Too bad. I can only hope that they try to implement newer WebKit versions. The interface and features are fine the way they are for now.
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Not likely when they aren't developing it anymore.
I remember when OmniWeb threads were the hottest threads around here. Now they barely get noticed.
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OmniGroup haven't said they aren't developing it any more (in fact a sneakypeek for a minor update came out today), just that they aren't able to dedicate resources to it - it'll only be a when they can effort. At the moment though, that appears to be 'never'.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Well, turns out that it most definitely is not dead... 5.9.1 is completed (I think) and the 5.9.2 sneakypeeks are underway (which is integrating the version of WebKit that is in the Safari 4 beta). Jolly good
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