David Emery OnlineOmniWeb and three other Omni apps set free
25 February 2009
The Omni Group, those loveable guys behind OmniWeb, has announced that it’s setting free four of its previously for-pay Mac applications. As of today, OmniDazzle, OmniDiskSweeper, OmniObjectMeter, and, of course, the Mac web browser with a cult-like following, OmniWeb, are now free to the public, fully-functioning and sans license. […] “By making these applications—which are not currently under active development—available as free downloads, we hope that more people are able to enjoy using them without the barrier of cost.”
The timing of this is rather interesting – I switched from OmniWeb to the new Safari 4 beta (which is very good so far) today. I’m a big OmniWeb fan – it offers so many compelling features – but it’s in serious need of some work done to it as it’s falling behind Safari, Firefox and (soon on the Mac) Google Chrome. Safari 4 runs rings around it in terms of speed and UI, but it still lacks some of the OmniWeb power features like visual tabs (although you can get a slightly worse implementation in SafariStand), Workspaces and Zoomable text areas.
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