Hi folks,
I just need to share this with fellow OmniWeb users...
Two days ago I was happily surfing the web with our beloved browser...
Then it started, as usual, to go slow until it stucks and becomes totally unresponsive.
And you start to surf unhappily.
I am used to this behaviour and resigned to have to force quit the engine every now and then.
But sometimes you just feel fed up.
So in a moment of browser-madness I cranked up ol' good (well, 1.5 actually) Camino and set it as my default browser (Firefox will never be an option, Safari is just so "so-so").
Wow, Camino is stable! And what nice features it has... Growl integration, shweet...
Mmh... :)
I've been using it for two days (after heavily modding the GUI). In two days, not a single force quit. This app is totally steady.
The font rendering may be a little ugly, but hey... it stands up no matter what you're doing with it, you don't have to expect a freeze if you have many tabs open or whatever... Sometimes Omni freezes even on start up! :) With Camino you just surf withou worries... This is so good, really.
But...
After two days I've started to miss all the goodness of my browser of choice. Good ol' OmniWeb (as old as the latest sneaky peak). Back home, back in your arms! Err...
Boy, I needed oxygen! Couldn't live any more without all the little niceties of OmniWeb. I disperately missed the click hightlight on the links that is so, so useful and you only realize it when you go discover how you miss it! It's a great visual feedback. Those small things that do not jump in your face but that are totally awesome. I missed the easyness of switching between tabs, I missed the thumbs of the pages I opened right there in the drawer. It's so useful: you open a page with a cmd-click and you don't have to switch to that tab to check what comes out of that click, the thumbs give you an idea and sometimes it's enough to understand if that page is interesting or not, and eventually you just close it. That saves a lot of time!
And then all the other stuff... font smoothness... the amazing page info panel (a killer feature!)... per site prefs and everything else... And autofill&autocomplete, how could I not mention this!!
All these good things stuffed together in one browser...
But dear Omnifolks...
This browser is so good it deserves to get more attention, more love.
I know you depend on how things go with WebKit, but not everything depends of WebKit. There's a lot that could be done to improve the browser, really...
If I was a developper, and thanks god I'm not (so I don't have to deal with pesky users like me), I'd give it:
- Growl integration so that you don't have to check the d/l window to see what's going on
- a new GUI less cluttered, my god! that tab drawer needs to be reworked!! new icons!!! boy Omni looks like Jaguar!! ooold! come on, this is unacceptable :) It's plenty of skilled and unpretentious designers out there, why not give someone a call? :))
- no matter how I love the way Omni handles the tabs, an option to have them in the old classic way would be more than welcome (for those times when your desktop has little real estate)
- a working bookmark manager!! I want my new bookmarks to go to the end of the list, but no matter what you set in the prefs, they always go to the top! Grrrr, how annoying...
- oh, the future of web browsing: normal separators in the bookmarks bar. A simple line, this incredible feature :)) Such a little addition, but it would be blessing. An empty space just doesn't work, for me at least.
That's it. Pardon the verbose flood, but blame it on the two days with Camino.
Bye!
I just need to share this with fellow OmniWeb users...
Two days ago I was happily surfing the web with our beloved browser...
Then it started, as usual, to go slow until it stucks and becomes totally unresponsive.
And you start to surf unhappily.
I am used to this behaviour and resigned to have to force quit the engine every now and then.
But sometimes you just feel fed up.
So in a moment of browser-madness I cranked up ol' good (well, 1.5 actually) Camino and set it as my default browser (Firefox will never be an option, Safari is just so "so-so").
Wow, Camino is stable! And what nice features it has... Growl integration, shweet...
Mmh... :)
I've been using it for two days (after heavily modding the GUI). In two days, not a single force quit. This app is totally steady.
The font rendering may be a little ugly, but hey... it stands up no matter what you're doing with it, you don't have to expect a freeze if you have many tabs open or whatever... Sometimes Omni freezes even on start up! :) With Camino you just surf withou worries... This is so good, really.
But...
After two days I've started to miss all the goodness of my browser of choice. Good ol' OmniWeb (as old as the latest sneaky peak). Back home, back in your arms! Err...
Boy, I needed oxygen! Couldn't live any more without all the little niceties of OmniWeb. I disperately missed the click hightlight on the links that is so, so useful and you only realize it when you go discover how you miss it! It's a great visual feedback. Those small things that do not jump in your face but that are totally awesome. I missed the easyness of switching between tabs, I missed the thumbs of the pages I opened right there in the drawer. It's so useful: you open a page with a cmd-click and you don't have to switch to that tab to check what comes out of that click, the thumbs give you an idea and sometimes it's enough to understand if that page is interesting or not, and eventually you just close it. That saves a lot of time!
And then all the other stuff... font smoothness... the amazing page info panel (a killer feature!)... per site prefs and everything else... And autofill&autocomplete, how could I not mention this!!
All these good things stuffed together in one browser...
But dear Omnifolks...
This browser is so good it deserves to get more attention, more love.
I know you depend on how things go with WebKit, but not everything depends of WebKit. There's a lot that could be done to improve the browser, really...
If I was a developper, and thanks god I'm not (so I don't have to deal with pesky users like me), I'd give it:
- Growl integration so that you don't have to check the d/l window to see what's going on
- a new GUI less cluttered, my god! that tab drawer needs to be reworked!! new icons!!! boy Omni looks like Jaguar!! ooold! come on, this is unacceptable :) It's plenty of skilled and unpretentious designers out there, why not give someone a call? :))
- no matter how I love the way Omni handles the tabs, an option to have them in the old classic way would be more than welcome (for those times when your desktop has little real estate)
- a working bookmark manager!! I want my new bookmarks to go to the end of the list, but no matter what you set in the prefs, they always go to the top! Grrrr, how annoying...
- oh, the future of web browsing: normal separators in the bookmarks bar. A simple line, this incredible feature :)) Such a little addition, but it would be blessing. An empty space just doesn't work, for me at least.
That's it. Pardon the verbose flood, but blame it on the two days with Camino.
Bye!
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