Netvibes Kills Omniweb Browser or I'm a Flocker Now.
18 January 2007 06:29 AM | Apple
I have been
using Omniweb browser for over a
year now. Recently I upgraded, and for at least 24
hours everything seemed okay, then Omniweb started
crashing whenever my default start page:
Netvibes would load. I do not
know why Omniweb started doing this but since a
browser is central to what I do every day I cannot
be without a reliable one. I liked Omniweb, while
it was not nearly as fast as many other browsers
it had all the luxury features one might expect in
a Caddilac. In particular the killer app for me
since I post so much on the web was the built in
support for Mac OS X spell checking as you type:
if I misspell a word a it is underlined in red as
I type - loved that.
So I needed a new browser.
I have been using Flock browser, only on my laptops, for the last month or so, and while it is not perfect I think I will give it a try on my main desktop machine now. What I do not like about Flock is the way it handles bookmarks so I'm going to give the del.icio.us bookmarking feature a try and see if I like that better.
Flock's spell check is not OS X native but it is good enough.
Flock uses the same rendering engine as Firefox.
Flock has a very nice search box feature. Yahoo is the default, but you can add others and change the default search engine if you like.
Flock has extensions like Firefox (although not as many). I added the Ask Power Tools, which adds Ask search menu to the right click menu after you highlight something.
I have tried various other browsers for Mac OS X and have found them all wanting in some crucial aspect, so I guess Flock is it for now.
So I needed a new browser.
I have been using Flock browser, only on my laptops, for the last month or so, and while it is not perfect I think I will give it a try on my main desktop machine now. What I do not like about Flock is the way it handles bookmarks so I'm going to give the del.icio.us bookmarking feature a try and see if I like that better.
Flock's spell check is not OS X native but it is good enough.
Flock uses the same rendering engine as Firefox.
Flock has a very nice search box feature. Yahoo is the default, but you can add others and change the default search engine if you like.
Flock has extensions like Firefox (although not as many). I added the Ask Power Tools, which adds Ask search menu to the right click menu after you highlight something.
I have tried various other browsers for Mac OS X and have found them all wanting in some crucial aspect, so I guess Flock is it for now.
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