Is it still a sales pitch if the product is free?

[mayhap]

Hey, Mac users! My favorite web browser, OmniWeb, is now totally free! Just in case you'd been ignoring all of my previous recommendations because they expected you to, like, pay money for the registered version and stuff.

Also: we have snow! Lots and lots of fluffy fluffy snow, and it's still snowing! Of course, I would be less excited if it were a weekday and I'd had to go sweep the snow off of my car in the dark to get to work.

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the robins, seals and sea lions woke me up

[newwaytowrite.livejournal.com]

I have bookmarked your recommendation to look at later.

[wisdomeagle]

So much snow! O_O

[azureflight.livejournal.com]

Sorry I've apparently missed your previous recommendations - why do you like OmniWeb? I've gone from Safari to Firefox to Camino to Safari again; I'd be curious to know why it's your favorite.

Also, I shall try and adopt your enthusiasm for the snow. *takes deep breath and peeks out window*

[mayhap]

Sure!

To me, it strikes the perfect balance between Safari and Firefox -- it's more featured and powerful than Safari, but it's more at home in the OS X environment than Firefox. It uses the same WebKit rendering engine as Safari. The features I really can't live without these days are shortcuts, where you can take any search box and access it with a keyword, so you can type "imdb Johnny Depp" or what have you in the address box, and the tabs, which you can drag all around and rearrange and open in the foreground or the background in a variety of ways depending on how you click the link. I also like the site-specific preferences when for some reason I find myself reading a site that 8-point dark blue on black (usually shameful pleasure fansites ;).

[azureflight.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I'll have to give it a try. I like the speed of Safari - I was getting very frustrated with Firefox and Camino in that respect - but the lack of extensions and shortcuts drives me crazy. Thanks for the rec!