[Splutter]

Isn't OW is a carbon app...? The guys behind Camino are looking VERY closely at Webkit (have you used a webkit nightly recently - good?) all the transferable work done on the FF widgets may be redundant if Camino goes Webkit. FF is way slower than webkit - without the OS integration - which is what Opera needs to be a killer app.

[arglborps]

I just thought now that there are two add-ons for Firefox to get visual tabs like in OmniWeb I might as well just see how far I can get with Firefox replacing OmniWeb.

I'm now up to 15 add-ons and I still don't have all the functionality of OmniWeb. Text rendering (2.0.0.9) still sucks a big banana in Firefox, it still doesn't do real bold Japanese fonts it's still fake bold all over the place.

I'm on a mac Mini (Intel Core Duo 1.66 GHz) and Firefox' speed is still glacial. And albeit I can get most of OmniWeb's functionality in Firefox, it still is butt ugly. Even with a fancy theme Firefox is an ugly toad.

Yes the plug-ins are really neat on FF, but in the end the only plug-in I really envied Firefox for was Firebug, and with the new Web inspector we even have that functionality finally in WebKit.

So all in all I'm back to OmniWeb. Now I'd love to see a little more JavaScript magic to give me the full functionality on the google sites :-)

[Stormchild]

Originally Posted by Splutter

Isn't OW is a carbon app...?

No. Carbon is for porting apps from the classic Mac OS to Mac OS X. Omni never made any software for the classic Mac OS, so none of their apps would be Carbon.

Omni was writing software for NeXTStep, before it was acquired by Apple and transformed into Mac OS X. OmniWeb was actually a NeXT browser until version 3 or 4.