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Originally Posted by Ken Case
We're not actively working on new features for OmniWeb 6 at the moment, but we're certainly still continuing to develop and enhance OmniWeb 5.
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The one defining feature for me is 64 Bit. No standard app needs this more than a browser IMHO. Web pages seem to need more and more memory these days, and each and every day,
OmniWeb crashes on me more than 10 times because it reaches the 4 GB memory limit during my work. (Go figure how much I love working with this browser that I cope with
that!)
I've been told 64 Bit won't happen before
OmniWeb 6, so according to what you say, it won't happen in the foreseeable future. That's about the worst news I can imagine for
OmniWeb.
I gladly paid for
OmniWeb, and I would still gladly pay again, but this almost forces me away from this browser. Everything else is nice to have, but 64 Bit is a must, as basic as
Apps must not crash!.
For me, the
OmniGroup has always been the poster-child of Mac OS X development, and I said and wrote so on many occasions. But this is not good. Your users have not only invested money in your applications, but also lots of work which would be lost (not bookmarks, maybe, but certainly workspace configurations and other elaborate settings). It was your decision to make
OmniWeb available for free, and even then you told us not to be afraid that
OmniWeb would die. Don't abandon your users now, please!
Uli