I like the way OmniWeb does tabs, and I like the site specific CSS. But that’s about the extent of the things I like in OmniWeb.

The things I don’t like about it, on the other hand, can best be summarized as “everything else.” Overall, I don’t even bother to keep it on my hard drive anymore.

At any rate, OmniWeb is no longer sold, so one day in the not-too-distant future you’ll have to give it up.

I agree totally about Safari.  It’s fast, but that’s just not enough for me. It also has to be extensible, and that’s why I use Firefox.  OmniWeb, which I have used for some time at the office, is O.K., but it has issues to this day with office related work flows I must content with daily.  So, for me, it’s Firefox until something comes along that can do what it does, stays out of the way, and is as extensible.

Thanks Jeff for the introduction to OmniWeb.  I hadn’t used it because I got Safari and Firefox for free, and I though that OmniWeb couldn’t be significantly better than Safari and was probably not as good.  But I been using it for a couple of hours, and, though it is not as fast as Safari, I do like it better than Firefox, and I love the way that it works with OS X’s services.  I have just one question for you or other interlocutors:  What do you use RSS/Atom Feed reader?

Omni Group is still giving the browser away for free, and development is still underway.

Wow, I didn’t realize it. I’ll give it another try, then. My OmniBrowser gripes are mostly to do with the way their location and toolbar work, and to a lesser degree the Preferences Window From Hell, so they might get fixed one day.

Thanks for the reply.

Oops, my fingers ran away there. I meant to say I didn’t realize Omni Group was still working on it. I pictured it suffering the same fate as IE5.

I really like the ‘Workspace’ feature of OmniWeb.  I’m a web application developer, and live in the browser, so features like workspaces make my job easier.  I also love the ability to have more than one row of bookmark icons just below the toolbar, with the favicon images. 

*please* keep the ‘drawer’ feature - it really works much better on my laptop, than a sidebar (or at least, please offer the choice), and so much better than palettes.  I know the ‘drawer’ is kind of being abandoned by developers, but ‘drawers’ seem to work the best for smaller screen real estate.

I have just one question for you or other interlocutors:  What do you use RSS/Atom Feed reader?

Personally, I use Google Reader. It works with all my browsers, and I don’t need to launch another app to read my feeds. I don’t have many feeds—no more than a dozen active ones, but go through close to a hundred articles a day—don’t read them all, but do scan them.

BTW, I’m a big fan for all the reasons mentioned in the original article, plus bunches more (Workspaces!!!). I play with Safari (WebKit, actually) and Firefox, but neither satisfy like Omni. And I paid for my Omni, too.

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Well, my screen handles about 8 tabs very nicely.

It also handles (as in right before I opened your article) 18 windows. I seldom have multiple tabs in more than a couple of windows, but still… the combo of Exposé and multiple tabs (assuming a mini-view tells you what’s in that window) allows for several dozen pages open at once, pretty directly accessible.

I can live with that. What doesn’t work for you with it?

Well! I really agree with safari. I don’t know about ‘omniweb’ till now. After reading your blog, a wared same. Could you tell me the difference between ‘safari’ and ‘omninweb’. What should I use? In fact I need something which works hassle free.
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