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OmniWeb 5 Beta out
« on: February 02, 2004, 09:56:25 PM »
I downloaded it to try it out...and it took forever and a day to load my Excite start page. Minutes...I went and did something else. And forget logging into Excite to actually get my personalized start page. Everything I tried to do, it seemed to hang - or took forever. I dumped the .plist files for both it and the previous version - no improvement. Went to quit it and restart it - and it refused to quit. Had to force quit. (Did that three times...)

It's got (or will have) a lot of nice features - including tabbed browsing with a left hand tab menu (icons of the pages) and the ability to import your bookmarks from just about anywhere (though it steadfastly refused to do that either...)

I know it's beta, but it feels more like an alpha!! Hope it gets better soon. Until then, I'll be sticking with Safari, Mozilla and in a pinch, IE. Think I'll re-download 4.5 in the mean time.
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