#Omniweb for mac review mac os#

OmniWeb 5 goes beyond the call of duty by providing more than just the 'obvious' featuresthe ones that every Mozilla user is shocked to learn are missing from Safari. In other words, there is most certainly a market for a 'feature enhanced' web browser like OmniWeb that combines the polish of Apple's best software with the powerful features that Apple is unwilling or unable to provide.

(Although I prefer to think of like-minded Mac users as merely having 'high standards' -) Such a flippant dismissal of some very powerful browsers based on what some might consider 'cosmetic issues', or 'minor annoyances' at the worst, might seem silly or elitist, but I assure you I am in good company. The other free browsers seem to lack Apple's (and The Omni Group's) high standards for interface polish. There are huge swaths of important, useful functionality that Apple seems to be uninterested in, or perhaps unable to implement in a 'free' web browser. Recall the example from the end of the previous section where I compared OmniWeb 5's flexible, regular expression supporting ad-blocking system with a hypothetical implementation in Safari (which currently doesn't have this feature at all). Many people don't give OmniWeb much of a chance against Safari, but as good as Apple's products are, there is tremendous room for improvement.

#Omniweb for mac review mac os#

I could go on about OmniWeb 5's feature set, I think this is a good time to step back and look at what The Omni Group has created and where it fits into the Mac OS software ecosystem.