General
The General preferences allow you to set your default web browser (OmniWeb, of course!), your Start Page (often referred to as your home page), whether or not Page Icons (also called favicons) are displayed, and whether or not the location field presents an autocomplete drop down. You can also enable Speech Recognition allowing you to control many aspects of OmniWeb using your voice.
The General Preferences pane.
Start Page: Pick one of these to choose what page will load when you create a new window or tab:
- Start Page, prepared just for you. And the other OmniWeb 5 users. But mainly you. Use our custom-built
- Bookmarks page, to shave precious fractions of a second when accessing a bookmark after startup. Start at your
- New windows and tabs will not load any page at all.
- You can specify any web page using this field.
Web sites have the ability to specify an icon that can be used to represent their site or a particular page. When this option is enabled, OmniWeb displays these icons in place of the normal URL/Bookmark icon.Location Bar With this setting enabled, OmniWeb will present you with a drop-down list of matches as you type into the location bar. Matches are gathered from your bookmarks, history and Speech
Speech for more information.
OmniWeb uses the speech recognition capability built into Mac OS X to recognize various commands you can use to perform different actions while browsing. See