OmniWeb 4.0 beta 8 is now available

[Andrew Abernathy]

    OmniWeb 4.0 beta 8 is now available. OmniWeb is a
    full-featured native web browser for Mac OS X. Highly
    multi-threaded and written using Apple's advanced Cocoa
    frameworks, OmniWeb is designed to provide you with the best
    user experience you'll find in a web browser. We think it's
    important to polish every user interaction to make sure that
    the browser acts the way you want it to--so you can stop
    thinking about the application you're using and just get at
    the information you want, quickly. (If you don't like anything
    about OmniWeb's user experience, please let us know!)

    You may use OmniWeb for free, with no functional restrictions.
    If you like OmniWeb, we encourage you to support its
    development by purchasing an official license. Licenses are
    $29.95 ($19.95 edu) and full purchasing information is
    available at http://www.omnigroup.com/products/purchasing/.
    The more licenses of OmniWeb we sell, the more development
    time we can afford to spend on OmniWeb and other Mac OS X
    applications (and we love working on Mac OS X applications).
    However, we don't insist that you purchase a license, and the
    only behavioral difference between the licensed version and
    the unlicensed version is that the latter periodically
    displays a licensing "reminder" at startup and displays an
    "unlicensed" banner across browser windows that have been idle
    for a while.

    If you have any problems installing or using OmniWeb, please
    check the OmniWeb frequently-asked-questions at
    http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omniweb/faq/. Please send
    your bug reports and feature requests to
    omniweb4 at omnigroup.com. The latest version of OmniWeb can
    always be found at http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omniweb/.

    Highlights of beta 8 include:

      * We now automatically abort orphaned tasks. What this means
        is that if you click on a link on a page before the page
        has finished loading, we don't bother to finish loading
        the page. This should make subsequent pages load more
        quickly for those on slow links.
      * Remade the preferences panel in the fashion of Apple's
        system preferences app.
      * We now use your preferred Mail and News applications (as
        defined by InternetConfig) when opening mailto and news
        URLs.
      * Bookmarks now show up in the bookmarks menu without you
        having to reset the corresponding preference every time
        you launch OmniWeb.
      * When adding bookmarks, they no longer simply show empty
        labels.
      * Fixed the "Open URL" Service.
      * If the server returns HTTP_STATUS_REQUEST_TIMEOUT, retry
        rather than failing. (This fixes the squid proxy server
        timeout bug.)
      * Numerous bug fixes. Also, various improvements to our CSS
        and JavaScript support.

    Full release notes can be found at
    http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omniweb/releasenotes/.