Taking OmniWeb for another spin
Aug 2nd, 20061 Comment
I grabbed a beta of OmniWeb 5.5 the other day. A few days later is has replaced Opera 9 as my default browser on OSX. Why?
- It’s super fast. My main complaint on OmniWeb 5 was that it was slow. 5.5 beats out Opera and Safari quite easily.
- I can use Emacs keystrokes in it, just like the rest of OSX. I couldn’t do that in Opera (Opera has a load of it’s own keystrokes and they seem to interfer with each other).
- The tab drawer. Really. It’s very, very nice.
- I love having configs per website. On one site, I may need popups, but on the other I don’t ever want to see them. OmniWeb makes this extremely simple.
- I actually had a problem with logging into a site (i.e. it wouldn’t log me in). I filled out a feedback email, and got a nice automated reply stating that someone will get back to me in the next business day. Sure enough, a real-live QA guy emailed me back and was quite nice. I sent a trace back and he told me the issue is known. This kind of support encourages me to by OmniWeb 5.5 when it comes out of beta.
- I just feel more productive in it.
So, really, give OmniWeb 5.5 a try.
