NetNewsWire 2.1 Beta

Just downloaded and installed the newest version of NetNewsWire 2.1 Beta. In the first 5 seconds it solved one of my most annoying problems with prior versions. When you click on a link for more… NetNewsWire opens a new tab which is really a session of Safari.

Since I rarely go through and close all these windows they tend to build up often I’ll have 50 to 100 tabs opening. In prior versions when things got slow I’d chose

1
Window > Close All Tabs

. That worked fine, but it would launch the dreaded spinning beach ball and take at least 2-3 minutes to finish. Annoying, but I eventually got used to it.

I just closed 68+ windows in 2 seconds. Very nice. (And I still haven’t tried out the real power feature, syncing online through NewsGator.)