OmniWeb 5 Beta 2

**fryke** · #1 February 17th, 2004, 05:16 PM

Quite incredible. Much more stable, faster (switching between workspaces after initially having loaded all of them is lightning fast!) and nicer, too (new thumbnail highlights when you leave the mouse over them gives you title and URL, nice!).

I'm impressed...

btoth · #2 February 17th, 2004, 05:56 PM

Seems like it's making great progress. Seems quicker overall and the new tab labels are a nice touch.

**fryke** · #3 February 17th, 2004, 06:47 PM

Yeah... And while there's still the occasional glitch, I think it's gonna be finished in a matter of weeks... Great!

cybergoober · #4 February 17th, 2004, 07:13 PM

While the feature set is impressive, it is still dog s-l-o-w.

We'll see how the final pans out…

**fryke** · #5 February 17th, 2004, 07:36 PM

Well, it might be a tad slower for some things than Safari, but switching between tabs and workspaces saves about 80% of my time I waste in Safari! All those spinning wheels and waiting for tabs to load in Safari hinders my work far more than a little slower drawing in OmniWeb.

RacerX · #6 February 17th, 2004, 08:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cybergoober

it is still dog s-l-o-w.

Example addresses? It would be nice to see what your definition of dog s-l-o-w is.

For example, on my systems both OmniWeb 4.5 and 5 load this page up to three times as fast as Safari.

andychrist · #7 February 17th, 2004, 10:12 PM

It was slow to load in Safari; it still has not loaded in OmniWeb. And on this page, there is no Post Quick Reply Box.

naodx · #8 February 17th, 2004, 11:19 PM

So far it has been way more stable for me. I don't see that much of a slow down in page loading, maybe a bit but nothing major.

Will it replace safari for me? No, but I can see using them both.