OmniWeb now free, but do you care?
The Omni Group has announced that four of its programs, including the OmniWeb browser, are now freeware. They say they have their hands full with other projects, and decided to cut loose some of the apps that weren’t getting the attention they deserved. No doubt the release of Google’s Chrome and, more recently, Apple’s Safari finally pushed them over the edge. Keeping up with the innovations in these browsers would take a massive amount of time and effort.
I remember when OmniWeb first came out, many people questioned the viability of charging for a web browser when their were good ones being offered for free. A similar fate befell Opera. At one time we were expected to pay because of its advanced features, but that business model didn’t work out.
In a press release, the developers say, “OmniWeb is a powerful web browser with many unique time-saving, customizable features.” This implies OmniWeb has features that can’t be found in other browsers, but most people would be hard pressed to tell you what those features might be. The latest versions of Safari, Firefox and Opera are so slick, it’s hard to believe OmniWeb has any features that can compete with them.
As outlined in the press release, here are three other apps that are now freeware:
• OmniDazzle is a set of visual screen effects that can be used for presentations or capturing screenshots.
• OmniDiskSweeper is a disk cleanup utility.
• OmniObjectMeter is a Mac OS X memory optimization developer tool.
Links to all these programs can be found here.
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 in Web-browsers
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