[Ti] New Omniweb out. Worth $30? [OT]

[b]

John Griffin paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly:

>
>I just noticed in VT that a new Omniweb is out. Apparently they have thrown
>nearly everything in the previous version out and started from scratch. It
>now appears to be Safari on Steroids (same engine as Safari but with many
>more tools to play with).
>
>Has anyone tried it? Is it worth it?
>
>jg

Safari on Steroids? Nope, that sounds more like Camino.

I've used Omni for some time (as well as Safari and Camino).

The latest OmniWeb is 4.5, and it is identical to the 4.5 beta 
version that I used for months here. I like Omni, a lot. But it is no 
faster than Safari. As a matter of fact, if you encounter a lot of 
auto-fill type forms in your web usage, you might find Omni's habit 
of requiring Command-Shift-F to perform the 'auto-fill' a bit 
annoying. I do. Camino and Safari auto-fill automatically, as long as 
you say "OK" when each of them saves the form the first time through.

I paid for Omni, and a few other OmniGroup apps, and i have no 
regrets. Omni has much more flexible Preferences (especially 
concerning how it presents itself online, Cookies, etc). I like the 
flexibility. (being able to block cookies from specified sites, 
accepting cookies till session ends, only, etc). Your mileage may 
vary.

~flipper

P.S. These three browsers tend to play a bit of 'leap-frog' with each 
other. The newest version of whichever browser usually incorporating 
the niftiest new feature. However, the next release from one of the 
others then 'leaps' that one a bit...and so it goes.