03-09-2007, 10:19 PM
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Tabs: Seems to be a love or hate with everyone. I switched to text-only on the tabs and I like it.
Not Free: The thing is that you can use it for free, but you'll get a nag occasionally.
As for paying for the browser; I didn't mind ponying up the money (I bought it when it was more expensive years ago) as the company is very responsive to feature requests and solution provision. There's still some bugs I want to see worked out by v6 but upgrades are perpetually free, as I understand it.
The big feature I love is site preferences. E.g., I cannot read white on black text; I get retina burn pretty quickly. Using site prefs, I can tell OmniWeb not to load the background image or to override page styles, and I get normal black-text-on-white-background. For me, that's worth the price of admission right there.
You also have save window size, which you've seen, and the ability to save your workspace -- if you have 15 sites open and quit, those same 15 will come up when you relaunch. I know other browsers do this now, but OmniWeb has had it for ages.
And ditto to what imagenious said; they're a good company and good people with a great line of products (I use OmniGraffle daily for org charts). Plus, as he said, they were one of the first native browsers, having been a part of NEXTSTEP in the years before.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni_Group for a good overview.
More on OmniWeb: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OmniWeb
Tabs: Seems to be a love or hate with everyone. I switched to text-only on the tabs and I like it.
Not Free: The thing is that you can use it for free, but you'll get a nag occasionally.
As for paying for the browser; I didn't mind ponying up the money (I bought it when it was more expensive years ago) as the company is very responsive to feature requests and solution provision. There's still some bugs I want to see worked out by v6 but upgrades are perpetually free, as I understand it.
The big feature I love is site preferences. E.g., I cannot read white on black text; I get retina burn pretty quickly. Using site prefs, I can tell OmniWeb not to load the background image or to override page styles, and I get normal black-text-on-white-background. For me, that's worth the price of admission right there.
You also have save window size, which you've seen, and the ability to save your workspace -- if you have 15 sites open and quit, those same 15 will come up when you relaunch. I know other browsers do this now, but OmniWeb has had it for ages.
And ditto to what imagenious said; they're a good company and good people with a great line of products (I use OmniGraffle daily for org charts). Plus, as he said, they were one of the first native browsers, having been a part of NEXTSTEP in the years before.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni_Group for a good overview.
More on OmniWeb: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OmniWeb