In case there weren’t enough free web browsers available for Mac OS X now (right now there’s Safari, Firefox, Camino, Opera, Shiira, and Flock, and if your want to go all out there’s ELinks, Lynx, and Lynxlet for your CLI folks) OmniGroup has announced that they are making four of their previously commercial apps free, including the fantastic OmniWeb browser. OmniWeb and iCab were the last real commercial web browser holdouts on the market, especially after Google “helped” Opera make its browser free (Hint: it involved money).

Its interesting timing, mind you, considering that Apple just made version 4.0 of its Safari browser available in beta form. OmniWeb remains, however, one of the more unique and powerful browsers to be based on Apple’s WebKit. Instead of tabs, OmniWeb uses a sidebar which holds thumbnail shots of the pages you have open. Its also good to have on hand in case you’re testing the Safari 4 beta, since it continues to use WebKit 3.x which doesn’t have the issues WebKit 4 does. The other apps Omnigroup has released for free are OmniDazzle, a mouse pointer toy, OmniDiskSweeper, a drive cleaning tool which is very nice, and OmniObjectMeter, a tool for developers.

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