OmniWeb 5.8 Browser Released

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After a period of beta trials, called sneaky peek, OmniWeb 5.8 was released on Friday by the Omni Group. OmniWeb 5.8 is based on the same rendering engine as Safari, Webkit 3.1 and includes the latest security patches and features included with Safari 3.1.x such as downloadable fonts, CSS Animation, HTML 5 media tags and client side database storage.

Version 5.8 also adds support for non-POSIX files, and Google Chrome has been added to the list of user agents.


OmniWeb 5.8, showcasing thumbnails

OmniWeb offers a unique, thumbnail based approach to viewing previous Web pages, and the thumbnail sizes can be changed to suit the user. In addition, Workspaces allow the user to collect and maintain various sets of associated Web pages that survive and reload after a reboot (or crash) and site preferences allow the user to define how OmniWeb should interact with individual sites.

OmniWeb 5.8 is priced at US$14.95 and requires Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later.

John Martellaro

John Martellaro

John Martellaro was born at an early age and began writing about computers soon after that. He is a former U.S. Air Force officer and has worked for NASA, White Sands Missile Range, Lockheed Martin Astronautics, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Apple. At Apple he worked as a Senior Marketing Manager, a Federal Account Executive and a High Performance Computing manager. His interests include skiing, chess, science fiction and astronomy. You can follow John on Twitter at twitter.com/jmartellaro.

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