2 posts tagged “omniweb”
So I switched back to Safari last week after using Firefox forever. I just can't seem to settle on a good browser on the Mac - I haven't been able to in a long time. I'll probably go back to Firefox though.
Safari feels faster and more solid than Firefox. I like the speed, I love the minimal interface. I don't like the fact that Vox doesn't work with it (hello!) and neither does Google Adsense, I've found - the latter is a new revelation as it did work previously.
I'd use OmniWeb as I still love it but, it has all of the Safari issues plus the Ping's CMS makes it crash for some reason. (It's just rendering a control, for goodness sake.)
Camino? If I'm going to do the Gecko core then I want all of the extensions too, so I might as well just run Firefox.
Firefox is still a bit of a resource hog and feels really, really cobbled together on the Mac. It just feels alien, and that's unfortunate because its feature set is still good (OmniWeb's is better.) I think what I want is OmniWeb with the Gecko core. That would rock my socks.
Until then, my socks will hum a little tune instead. Sigh.
So I'm trying out OmniWeb 5.5 again, given it's on sale this month, and am a little surprised Vox still doesn't offer Safari (WebKit) support.
I know Firefox is an option, and it's a great browser. But Safari being the "default" on a Mac holds some weight, no?
Anyway... Firefox will stick around for cross-platform testing, as always (and indeed that's why I've stuck with it - that and 2.0 is pretty good). But OmniWeb is still the most comfortable browser I've used on Ye Olde iMac.
