Why Pay Money For The Best Mac Browser?
Encore Review: Browsers are less than a dime a dozen. Nearly so. Browsers are free and they’re the gateway to the internet.
So, why would Alexis recommend a browser you have to pay for? It’s all about value, expectations, needs, and affordability.
As the designated Mac360 Queen of Cheap and Freebie Fanatic is it sacrilege to even look at a Mac browser with a price tag?
No. Why? Because everything has an exception, an Exceptions Law of sorts, and, because I can.
What got me to thinking about the state of Mac.... (excerpted).
5 Reader Comments
Mr Macintosh said:
LOVE OmniWeb!!!
“that’s the way we are used to browsing” - who is this proverbial “we”????? The tabs on the side are MUCH nicer then tabs on top. Wish other browser would give the choice.
I have paid a couple of times for OmniWeb. It is rock solid, fast, great features, and OmniGroup is a good company that makes all kinds of great products. I got hooked on their browser back in the NeXT days and have never given it up.
PS - Tab Thumbnails are adjustable. . . .
Mr Fred said:
MacBook Pro here and:
Safari - Never seems to be that reliable for me. Despite the 3rd party apps, ads are an annoyance. I have wanted to like it but, to me, it still needs work.
Camino - My choice for years but, it still has trouble with streaming video on some sites.
OmniWeb - It’s nice but, PLEASE put the tabs on TOP! Do that and I’ll buy it. It’s just not as intuitive winging your cursor to the side and down or up to navigate tabs. Every other browser has them on top and that’s the way we are used to browsing. On the side though? Ugh.
Firefox - Until Beta 4, it never ran that great on my OSX computers. Now? My browser of choice. I have ZERO problems with it. It uses less resources than it used to and takes care of all ads, streams every video well and just works! Truly the King of Browsers now.
Brian said:
hey, Safari does have an “auto-save” feature. If you have that window with six tabs and you close it… go to “History => Reopen Last Closed Window” it’s saved me a million times!! I am running Leopard and Safari 3.1.1, I don’t know if that makes a difference… Hope that helps some people!
Larry Harrison said:
Seems you’ve discovered my private Guilty Pleasure: Omniweb. Been using it for years; LOVE it. I wish the tab thumbnails were size adjustable. I wish more people would give it a serious try. It opens my banking site (and several others) perfectly when neither Sarafi or Firefox will.
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rje said:
OmniWeb has two problems for me. The first is autofill. They can’t get it right. It just doesn’t work. The second is tabbed browsing in drawers. I really dislike it. Drawers have all but disappeared from the Mac world. I want traditional tabbed browsing from OmniWeb, which I paid for a long time ago. I won’t use it till they get autofill. They don’t have it now. They have something, but it’s inferior to the same function on any other major browser.