I've installed the current beta for Omniweb 5 again over the last few days and have been playing around with it. I have to say, I'm impressed. The annoying caching bug is gone and overall Omniweb is very responsive and quite reliable. I haven't experienced any crashes in recent days. And the highlights of the new version are really great:
- The tabs with thumbnails I find brilliant, as they let me see much faster which window I need, even when I have many tabs open.
- Site-Preferences are a good idea, even if I probably won't use them very often. But they're much more intuitive to use than the similar feature in iCab.
- I can imagine Workspaces being very practical for Zope development, since I typically have a series of related windows open there. However, I haven't tried it yet. At work I still use Linux.
- The bookmarks are quite nice - similar to Safari, but also with integration of Safari bookmarks (without constant new imports). And bookmarks can be synchronized across other computers via WebDAV - if I finally get a Mac at work, that would be very nice. Of course, most of it ends up in my Blogmarks, but I still need some bookmarks - for example for my work.
- The security system makes a very well thought-out impression. For example, you can define yourself which applications you trust to open files directly with them.
- Since the Safari rendering engine is used, you have the same capabilities. For example, the already installed SVG plugin is being used directly. Unfortunately, this also brings Safari's rendering errors along... (overflow: auto on PRE for example, when there's only too much text in width, but not in height...)
Let's see how this develops further, but based on my gut feeling, I'd say OmniGroup must be pretty close to a release.
Update: As I just noticed, it even has an RSS feed reader built in. Integrated into the bookmark management and automatic updating. And it also supports RSS autodiscovery. Nice. Not really useful for me (since I use other aggregators), but nice.