[Ken Case]

Forrest, you may have already gone through all of this with in another thread or with our tech support ninjas (in which case I apologize for making you repeat yourself), but most of the problems you describe are news to me—and I don't seem to be able to reproduce most of them:

Originally Posted by Forrest

Bookmark checking still doesn't work

This is the first I'd heard about this—but you're right, I told OmniWeb to check a folder of bookmarks and none of the checking tasks got past the "Starting" state in Activity Monitor. We'll track this down.

download folder location site pref is now broken
ad blocking is broken
the correct status bar icons don't always show (if the status bar doesn't randomly disappear)
cookies don't always get deleted

I just tested and these all seem to be working fine for me.

tabs are often blank until clicked on

I haven't seen this. Just to make sure it wasn't because I'm always visiting the same web sites, I just went to macsurfer and Command-Clicked on the first ten article links; their thumbnails all loaded.

pages don't always load from the server even if you set them to...

I haven't seen anything like this, but I'm also not quite sure what you mean.

I would take any of those fixed over new icons any day.

Please bear in mind that the people writing code aren't drawing any new icons, so updating our icons doesn't really interfere with making progress on any of the issues you're concerned about.