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OmniWeb for Mac. 14,991 downloads Updated: November 29, 2019 Freeware. Review Free Download specifications changelog. Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later (Universal Binary) file size: 28 MB filename: OmniWeb-5.11.2.dmg main category: Internet Utilities developer: The Omni Group. Jul 23, 2012 OmniWeb draws on the full beauty of Mac OS X's Quartz graphics, and truly leverages the Aqua interface with drawers, sheets, customizable toolbars, and more.
In my quest for an up-to-date browser to use in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger on my two old Pismo PowerBooks, one that I had consistently passed over was OmniWeb, which was the very first OS X web browser out of the blocks a decade ago. OmniWeb was originally developed for the NextStep platform in 1995, then migrating to OpenStep, and finally to Mac OS X.
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OmniWeb was also the last major commercial software browser holdout (except for iCab, currently at version 4.8a, which remains nagware), finally dropping its licensing fee in February 2009.
That fee had been one reason for my looking elsewhere, but it wasn’t my biggest objection to OmniWeb; I dislike thumbnail bookmarks tabs. You can switch to a text-only tab list, but it still lives in a vertical slide-out drawer, which can be positioned at either the left or right of the browser window, still eating up the same amount of precious screen real estate for us small-display laptop users, which is my main complaint about the thumbnails – not the pictures.
Low End Mac viewed in OmniWeb on a 1024 x 768 display.
Even with the tab drawer reduced to about its minimum useful size, I still can’t get all of Low End Mac’s home page to show on my Pismo’s 1024 x 768 display; I have to scrolling sideways. I also find it particularly tedious and counter-intuitive having to navigate there to close tab windows.
However, OmniWeb is one of the rapidly diminishing selection of actively developed browsers that still supports Tiger. As a Tiger holdout, I appreciate any developer still taking an active interest in supporting the last Mac OS X version that (officially) supports G3 and slower (than 800 MHz) G4 Macs, for which I give the Omni Group developers appreciative credit, so I thought OmniWeb deserved a fresh new evaluation
I’ve been using OmniWeb for the past couple of months or so, and I’m happy to report how pleasantly surprised I’ve been at how nice-working OmniWeb is on both the Pismo (550 MHz G4, 1 GB RAM, OS X 10.4.11) and on my Late 2008 Unibody MacBook (Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, 4 GB RAM, OS X 10.6.6).
The thumbnail tabs are still an annoyance, but I can tolerate that, especially for speed and stability on Tiger, which OmniWeb 5 has.
None of the browsers I’m using with Tiger is really satisfactory, and I’ve long suspected that browser compatibility will probably be what ultimately ends the Pismo’s run as a production workhorse.
Opera 10.6.3 is pretty good – fast and quite stable – but it has a compatibility bug with PowerPC that causes it to bog down badly with long paroxysms of spinning beach ball when entering text in fields, such as when doing Google or Bing (a surprisingly good search engine) searches. It’s also no longer current. Opera 11 doesn’t support PowerPC; 10.6.3 is the end of the road for Tiger (and OS X 10.5 Leopard) on PPC Macs. SeaMonkey and Camino both still officially support OS X 10.4, but they seem to get slower and slower on the old 550 MHz G4 Pismos with each incremental version upgrade. I still use one or the other for web posting and certain other chores, but the writing is in the wall there as well.
In general, I’m finding OmniWeb, which is based on Apple’s WebKit, a more satisfactory surfing tool on Tiger than any of the Mozilla Gecko-based siblings (Firefox 3.6.13, SeaMonkey 2.0.11, and Camino 2.06), although it’s no ball of fire speed-wise on these old 550 MHz G4s. (I hasten to emphasize that the Intel versions of all these browsers are gratifyingly speedy on Core 2 Duo machines like my MacBook.)
Consequently, I will keep using it, possibly for the duration, although I’ll be pleasantly surprised if any major browsers are still actively being developed for Tiger by the end of 2011. [Update: The last version, OmniWeb 5.11, was released in December 2011, still supporting Tiger.]
I still don’t like icon tabs, and OmniWeb (on the G4 Pismos) also sometimes goes into spasms of unresponsiveness while it’s executing tasks.
Workspaces
On the plus side, OmniWeb has what is probably the best session save and resume implementation of any browser, with its excellent Workspaces feature that automatically saves your open windows and tabs (including their sizes and positions on screen) and restores them when you relaunch OmniWeb, as well as enabling you to manually store your own arbitrary sets of workspaces for later recall and quickly switch between them with a key shortcut or menu choice.
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You can organize Workspaces by dragging and dropping the contents of one workspace to another, take a snapshot of a workspace and instantly restore the workspace from the snapshot, cancelling any modifications made during a work session, and share workspace files with other OmniWeb 5 users.
You can block ads with OmniWeb, choose to view popups only when you ask for them (like if you specifically click a link), tell OmniWeb to block any ad content coming from a known ad server, block all Flash content, and much more.
OmniWeb is highly custom configurable with extensive Preferences options, such as allowing you to specify preferences that apply to specific websites. Adjust the font size on a given page, and the adjusted font size will be used on all other pages of the same site. Preferences are saved automatically and retained between browsing sessions.
I’m giving OmniWeb a three out of four rating on Tiger under present circumstances. It’s arguably the best of what’s currently available for OS X 10.4.
New in version 5.10.3: Fixes a crash encountered if you were running on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
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System requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later.
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The Omni Groupis Cocoa based OS X Web browser, OmniWeb, was honored by winning two Apple Design Awards at the recent World Wide Developers Conference. Apple handed out for OS X based Design Awards, and OmniWeb took home the awards for 'Best Mac OS X User Experience' and 'Best New Mac OS X Product.' According to The Omni Group:At the 2001 Macintosh Worldwide Developers Conference, in front of a crowd of 2,000 engineers, Apple announced that OmniWeb won two of the four Apple Design Awards this year. The Omni engineers were all smiles as their native Mac OS X web browser, OmniWeb 4.0, won the awards for 'Best Mac OS X User Experience' and 'Best New Mac OS X Product.'
OmniWebis lead engineer, Ken Case, said 'As we said in our 4.0 press release, OmniWeb is your browser, so this award really belongs to all of you: thank you all for your feedback, which has helped us turn OmniWeb into an award-winning product! (But Iim keeping the Cinema Display.)'
Omniis president, Wil Shipley, added 'Writing OmniWeb has been incredibly fun because of all the positive feedback weive received from our users. Having Apple officially recognize us just makes it that much sweeter! (Also, Cinema Displays rule.) Weire already planning what weire going to do to win again next year!'
Software was rated by a team of Apple engineers and designers using the criteria of 'Ease of Use,' 'Use of Mac OS X Technologies,' 'Adherence to Aqua Interface Guidelines,' and 'Innovation.' Various weighting factors were applied to these scores to determine the award winners in each category: 'Most Innovative Mac OS X Product,' 'Best Mac OS X Technology Adoption,' 'Best Mac OS X User Experience,' and 'Best New Mac OS X Product.' OmniWeb 4.0 won the latter two.
OmniWeb is available as shareware for US$29.95. You can find more information at The Omni Group Web site.