Mac Users, Omniweb browser is now free.

[alfredo]

If you want to see what it can do, download it here.

http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb

Importing bookmarks is real easy, and adding to the bookmark bar is drag and drop.

[Sultana]

1. Merci

I've never heard of it, sound tres interesting.

Downloading :evilgrin:

[alfredo]

6. It's been a hidden jewel, underutilized because it was pay ware. I guess

the other products are doing well enough that they don't need the income. Anyway, the Omniweb browser can be a good advertising for their other products.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Marking to check later

Thanks.

[alfredo]

7. Here's another free app that has been around almost as long as OSX

http://www.freeverse.com/games/game/?id=7016

[Cronus Protagonist]

3. A free browser, what a concept!

And it's only 8 years into the 21st century! Gosh, at this rate, they'll have a right mouse button with, wait for it, a SCROLL WHEEL as standard issue by about 2012!

[alfredo]

8. What's your problem? Omniweb has always been payware. They offered

more than other browsers, so the small fee wasn't too much. iCab is still payware, Opera was payware with the incentive being an ad that took up a bit of the window. Omni didn't allow the establishment of a homepage without payment.

[Tesha]

9. Your Mac knowledge, as always, seems a mite out of date. (NT)

[alfredo]

10. The Mighty Mouse has several buttons, you just can't see them.

[Tesha]

11. And a "full-motion" scroll pea, albeit with some mechanical "issues"

But the scroll pea is quite a bit more useful
than the typical PC mouse coarsely-moving
scroll wheel.

Tesha

[alfredo]

12. I have trackballs. Both are good for my Arthritis.

Kensington Expert Mouse Pro



and a Kensington Orbit

[Tesha]

17. I always found the Kensington designs hurt my hand.

The Kensington design forces you to keep your
fingers "arched up"/elevated to allow your fingers
to roll the trackball. After a while, this hurts my
hand.

I prefer the Microsoft trackball where the trackball
itself is down in the left side and operated by the
thumb of your right hand while your fingers lay
relatively flat in constant contact with the three
"mouse buttons". For me, a right-handed person,
I find this hand position to be much more comfortable
even through extended use.

Tesha

[alfredo]

18. It's important to let your hand relax.

[bobbert]

14. Eh, that wheel/pea is personal opinion

I use a fancy logitech mouse with a wheel that tilts side to side as I prefer the vertical scrolling of a wheel, my wife uses the mighty mouse. The pea is nice for scrolling side by side, but with widescreen monitors, how much do you actually scroll to the side? I much prefer my logitech mouse over the mighty mouse in every way.

[alfredo]

20. I have a Logitech I use on my Linux and old iMac. Good solid mice.

[glinda]

4. MacWorld Review here. Maybe read this first.

http://www.macworld.com/article/132163/2008/02/omniweb56.html

[alfredo]

5. They just made it free last week. It's always been a solid browser.

[bobbert]

13. Opera did this what, 4 years ago?

Opera actually has a decent userbase too. I don't see any features that omniweb has that firefox/opera do not have. They probably haven't sold a copy in 12 months so it might as well be free.

[alfredo]

15. I don't remember Opera getting slammed when it became free.

Omniweb was never their primary product.

http://www.omnigroup.com/ Look at their line of products. OmniWeb is just one of many.

Most likely OmniWeb is a loss leader.

OmniGraffle

[bobbert]

16. Perhaps because it a was better than anything free when it was released

especially since they have osx, windows, and linux versions. Even when it was a pay-browser it had close to a 10% share of the market. I don't know if it went up that much because firefox has become a lot more popular since then. I love the tabs on top, speed dial + built-in torrent downloader. You also cannot say enough about mouse gestures! Once you learn how to use them, they rock!

Opera had the features you'd expect from a pay-browser so it becoming free was a great thing. Omniweb looks like something similar to what's already offered for free from many other companies. It doesn't have much of a share of the market because of that. It just doesn't meet standards and it makes you think about why this company would even charge for it in the first place.

Also, from your image, pluto isn't a planet! Except here in Illinois, lol

[alfredo]

19. That could be why they made it free. the other browsers had caught up

so they had to adapt.

Illinois bills itself the land of Lincoln, though he was born in Ky, Lived in Indiana before he moved to Illinois. So yeah, I can see them still hanging on to Pluto.