Comments on: OmniWeb: A Better Browser?

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:12:36 +0000

It is better in many respects . . . except when it is slow as ass. Which is always.

Stick with Safari and to a lesser extent, Camino.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:35:27 +0000

I love the interface of Safari, and frankly, who doesn’t? Safari also is very organized and saves me time. Since, as the saying goes, time is money, I guess it saves me money too! Who knew?

By: San

San — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:22:26 +0000

Paying 15$ for OmniWeb is not a problem , you’ll forget you bought it quickly , very very quickly !

By: Which Browser Are You? | MacApper

Which Browser Are You? | MacApper — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:57:21 +0000

[...] web browser, and it’s a bit difficult to gauge its popularity as it’s also quite new. According to some it has the features of all other web browsers, and then some. That some will cost you $15 [...]

By: Andy’s World » Blog Archive » Making My Mac Experience Better Pt. 3

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:10:26 +0000

[...] leave well enough alone. I was browsing the Internet, using Camino no less, when I stumbled across this entry on [...]

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 27 May 2007 16:06:48 +0000

every single feature of OW can be had in Firefox with extensions… the problem being that with every extension you add on to the initial load time, drag down stability and speed and generally just make it a less “Mac-like experience.”

OmniWeb is undoubtedly the best “out of the box” browser for the OSX platform. The problem is that you can’t really add to it. Even Safari allows (for now anyway) plug-ins to customize it and is quite fast.

I’m afraid no matter how good or fast OmniWeb is, having a price tag is just going to keep it just this side of obscurity (where the largest resident is Opera).

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:25:52 +0000

I really love OmniWeb, it’s IMO the best browser on the Mac.

Thanks for your little review

By: Dexx

Dexx — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:14:38 +0000

hey guys,

i’ve tried ALL the browsers out there for macs even the really weird lookin ones, from flock to safari, omniweb to opera,

i LOVE safari, but there’s only one that wins hands down –

*drum roll*

*crash*

–” OPERA ” –

fast and furious easy to customise and just so sweet.

it’s the best, and did i mention it’s fast??

By: Dim

Dim — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:27:52 +0000

Strangely that my Opera does all that and oh so much more. And best of all, it’s free.

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:22:18 +0000

yea i use OmniWeb when i just want to open up one quick page or wheni feel like changing for one day but mainly im a firefox user.

By: Miles Evans

Miles Evans — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:39:27 +0000

The best part about Omni is its speed. I gotta agree though, the tabs need work. My preferences go Fox, Opera, Safari for browsing.

By: imajoebob

imajoebob — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:46:44 +0000

You pretty much just described Opera, which is free.
But I still prefer Safari.

By: Will

Will — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:44:08 +0000

I disliked the tabs at first too, but if you always have a ton of tabs open like me, it makes more sense. You can fit many more at a time, especially if you choose the list view instead of the thumbnail one.

You are right though, they should have it as an option.

By: Justin Laramee

Justin Laramee — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:49:47 +0000

The ugly tab drawer is the only thing that keeps me away from OmniWeb.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:22:34 +0000

I decided to buy OmniWeb today as well (ironic). But there are two things I miss from Firefox 2.0, the first is the automatic spell checker, and also is there a way to display the tabs under the navigation bar like Firefox and Safari do?, Thanks – Rick

By: shadownight

shadownight — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:58:57 +0000

Have been trying it for 10 minutes, and it doesn’t seem faster to me… But there are some very slick features. The preferences for specific websites are especially cool, and the whole interface has a sense of care and robustness to it. Still not enough for me, I’m afraid, but I’ll give it a try.

By: Horst

Horst — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:13:00 +0000

I recently gave OmniWeb another try after reading once again only good things about on some other blog, but I somehow had quite a hard time with its keyboard shortcuts and could nowhere find a way to change them

By: David

David — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:34:26 +0000

Opera does all of that and is free.

By: James

James — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:00:07 +0000

“It can automatically save your â€œbrowsing sessionsâ€ to let you pick up were you left off after closing the browser.”

- This you can do with Firefox 2.0 too.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:49:11 +0000

I’m also a recent switcher from Safari to OmniWeb. While I do love Safari and used Safari Speedsource to make it a bit faster, OmniWeb simply blew past almost all browsers. (The only browser even close in loading times to OmniWeb was Shiira 1.x but it didn’t load all of my pages) The other features like Workspaces and the two versions of tabbed browsing (regular and thumbnail) just make my work and home browsing use much more efficient.

By: Sujan Patel

Sujan Patel — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:40:27 +0000

I am a firefox fan. It has made my life easier as I am on the web at least 10 hours a day.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:37:55 +0000

I just recently switched from using Firefox to using Safari bc of different headaches I was having with the current verison of FF. I’ve heard about OmniWeb before, but I don’t know if I’d be ready to switch. A follow-up post with a breakdown of the features and how it compares with Safari would be awesome.

By: OmniWeb « the wphj blog

OmniWeb « the wphj blog — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:18:54 +0000

[...] just did a post about OmniWeb on MacApper, but I though you guys might be interested. So, check it out and Digg it if you want! Filed under: Uncategorized [...]