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Highly recommended - and a speed tip
Authored by: theNonsuch on Sep 08, '04 01:42:06AM

I agree - Omniweb has really matured and is totally worthy. They're apparently working on a 5.1 version which will have the most up-to-date Webcore and Javascriptcore integrated - version 5 has an older version built-in. The vast majority of people will not really notice the difference, but it's worth mentioning.

A speed tip: to speed up Omniweb to the point where it is equally as fast as Safari (or even a little bit faster: YMMV), uncheck the preferences "start drawing before entirely loaded" and "show image placeholders while loading", under the Omniweb "Display" prefpane.

Unchecking these two has really sped up page loads for me

At any rate, I also think this is worth the price.



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Highly recommended - and a speed tip
Authored by: szabesz on Sep 08, '04 07:30:51AM

I have an 600Mhz iBook, and OmniWeb is painfully slow on it. All the free browsers are speedy but not this one. It is really slow even after downloading the whole page, scrolling and all kinds of other user actions are sluggish.



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Highly recommended - and a speed tip
Authored by: szabesz on Sep 08, '04 07:35:41AM

"The vast majority of people will not really notice the difference, but it's worth mentioning."

About 30% of the web sites I am frequently visiting is not perfect in OmniWeb. For example iFrames look ugly (like in the Linux version of Mozilla clones). So I have noticed the difference.



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Highly recommended - and a speed tip
Authored by: theNonsuch on Sep 08, '04 08:39:02AM

iframes are supported in all versions of webcore, so it's very possible it's the page or the code and not Omniweb. Do they work in Safari?



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Highly recommended - and a speed tip
Authored by: chancer on Sep 08, '04 10:27:21PM

I also have a 600mHz iBook, and even after following this speed tip, OmniWeb is painfully, horribly, unusably slow. Too bad. I like the features. But it's so slow it reminds me of dialing up on my old PPC 6100.



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