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June 28, 2007

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OmniWeb 5.6 sneaky peeks available

Posted Jun. 28, ’07, 7:41 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Software

OmniWeb I mentioned that I was impatiently awaiting the release of OmniWeb 5.6. Omni Group has made the current alphas available as sneaky peeks. The current release notes list a few known issues and several new features.

  • Now using WebKit r23823.
  • This includes the new Web Inspector as seen on Surfin’ Safari
  • Addresses many site compatibility issues, improves performance and addresses various other bugs found in 5.5.4.
  • The Drosera JavaScript debugger now works in OmniWeb. (It is packaged with WebKit nightlies http://nightly.webkit.org/builds/)
  • Improved JavaScript and plug-in performance.
  • Speed Download should now behave appropriately in OmniWeb.
  • Flash and other plug-in performance has been improved.
  • Several compatibility issues with the developer builds of OS X have been corrected.
  • OmniWeb should now never fail to quit when requested to do so.
  • Updated the zoomed editor, adding an item in both the Edit and textarea Context menu.
  • The favorites menu should now always appear in the Bookmarks menu.

The performance improvement is drastic, as it is with Safari 3.0 beta. I couldn’t find the Web Inspector anywhere in the interface, but I’ll take it on faith it’s there somewhere. Unfortunately, the one thing I was hoping for wasn’t delivered. Netflix rating doesn’t work. In fact, rating anything in it makes the application unable to load any new or old pages. Maybe tomorrow will bring a better build.


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