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# OmniWeb 5.5 out, based on WebKit
- URL: https://www.chrismessina.me/blog/omniweb-55-out-based-on-webkit/
- Published: 2006-09-07T10:00:38.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-25T03:37:47.000Z
- Author: Chris Messina
- Tags: Technology, Web building

[](http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/236971194/?ref=chrismessina.me)Moving off of outmoded WebCore, [The Omni Group](http://www.omnigroup.com/?ref=chrismessina.me) has [come out](http://thedailymac.com/?p=513&ref=chrismessina.me) with [OmniWeb 5.5](http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/?ref=chrismessina.me), based on WebKit. In my tests, it still has some bugginess loading certain websites, but on the whole, it's a solid browser that I find using as my trusty secondary (after [Camino](http://www.caminobrowser.org/?ref=chrismessina.me), of course). This release is important because it adds yet another to the growing stable of [WebKit browsers](http://webkit.pbwiki.com/?ref=chrismessina.me) in the wild. It also sets a number or precedents with regards to visual tabs, customizing your surfing experience web-wide or at the individual site level and adds RSS subscriptions to its standard feature set. It's still not the [perfect browser](http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2005/1222%5Fbuild%5Fthe%5Fbe.php?ref=chrismessina.me), but it's certainly a contender (though with a $30 price tag, I'm not sure anyone but Omni fans will be willing to ante up with so many [decent](http://hmdt-web.net/shiira/en?ref=chrismessina.me) competitors out there).

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### 💬 Comments from the original post

**[Chip Cuccio](http://chip.cuccio.us/?ref=chrismessina.me)** · 2006-09-08 06:47:22

I'm a proud license holder of OW ;-)

**[Danilo Stern-Sapad](http://danilo.ariadoss.com/?ref=chrismessina.me)** · 2006-11-17 04:10:12

I use OmniWeb as a secondary browser as well (when Firefox 2 slows down) and I really love how it does tabbing and how it loads about as fast as Safari. So what do you like so much about Camino that makes it your first choice? I found it to have poor support for Flash and lacking the wide array of extensions available to Firefox users.