Browser Fashion

8 May 2006

Yet again, I’ve switched browsers; from Safari back to OmniWeb now that the 5.5 “Sneaky Peaks” are available. OmniWeb 5.5 is great – so much faster then 5.1, due to the use of the latest version of WebKit (which Safari is based on).

Now of course, I can’t just use a browser – what what be fun about that? I’ve got to do at least a little customisation. In 5.5, Omni have made a slight interface modification to use the 10.4 unified look (as seen in Mail.app et al), but I don’t think they’ve gone quite far enough. So, if you haven’t noticed in the pic above I’ve altered the address bar – which is normally shiny, old-school aqua blue – to use a shiny, Mail.app style grey bar instead.

If you would like the same look, download this file: omniweblocationbar.zip

Next (after backing up your OmniWeb), open up the OmniWeb package by right/ctrl clicking on the icon and choosing “Show Package Contents” and copy the files in the zip file to the Contents->Resources folder. Then re-launch OmniWeb to see the new look.

Of course, this doesn’t really go far enough – I’d really like to see the contents of the tab drawer to move to a pane within the window (like SafariStand does), and the toolbar icons could do with a refresh. However, Omni are just focusing on the move to WebKit in this release – hopefully we won’t have to wait too long for version 6.

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8 May 2006