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OmniWeb 5 - Powerful and feature-laden web browser
Authored by: sjk on Sep 09, '04 12:26:02AM

Thanks for the PofW article, Rob.

You summarized pretty much how I feel about OW5 tabs. I think there's too much eye motion shifting focus of attention to the left or right to glance at tabs while other information (e.g. location bar) is being presented horizontally. And, as hessi mentioned, they can take up too much horizontal space on a 1024x768 display, leaving little (if any) desktop visible for drag/drop, tho' Exposé helps ease that issue. I hope OmniGroup does consider implementing horizontal tabs in a future release since the combination of the two styles would be useful for different browsing contexts, as John Siracusa convincingly argued at Ars Technica.

The popup text edit pane is quite nice. And there are no accesskeys interfering with control-prefixed emacs-style navigation, which remains a serious nuisance for me during input with Safari.

Something I can't find are modifier key-click combinations for Open Link (in New|Behind) Window, like Cmd-Opt[-Shift]-click in Safari. The Cmd-Opt combo seems missing for OW5 tho' I requested it and thought it would be in the 5.0 release. That's one of those muscle memory efficiency things that makes it awkward when switching between Safari and OW5.

Site preferences are nice, especially text zoom. I prefer PithHelmet content filtering to OW5 ad blocking, as mentioned in another post. Filtered pages often look more bloated in OW5 than Safari.

Auto-saving is much appreciated. That's something I first encountered using Opera on Solaris several years ago. And launching with the Shift key modifier to get a new, empty workspace is helpful to avoid restoring an unwanted auto-saved session.

That's my OW5 mini-review. I'll pay the modest and fair upgrade fee when the demo period ends.



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