Icab Browser Download
May 21, 2010. It has replaced safari as my default browser on my ipad. I think it is worth mentioning that icab also has a download manager, which is the single best feature by far. Also there is a module that let's you download YouTube videos for offline viewing. These two features alone make this the best browser for the.
This app is only available on the App Store for iOS devices.
Description
iCab Mobile is a web browser for the iOS. It provides many unique and useful features you won't find in other iPhone browsers.
APPLE WATCH:
The Watch App is a remote control for iCab Mobile, so you can navigate, zoom, scroll, open bookmarks, links, the homepage, switch tabs or sitch on/off the fullscreen mode. It is also possible to let iCab read a web site using speech output.
FILE UPLOADS:
iCab Mobile can upload any files on web pages (Due to limitations of the iOS this does not everywhere, but it works fine on many web sites).
SEARCHING:
iCab Mobile comes with several default search engines you can choose from. You can easily add new search engines.
FILLING OUT FORMS:
iCab Mobile can save web forms and restore the form content later (manually or automatically). The saved forms data can be password protected. Supports many third-party Password Manager Apps as well.
FILTERS:
There’s a built-in fully customizable filter feature. It allows to block resources, ads, banners, user tracking scripts, cookies etc. Supports AdBlock Plus/EasyList filters as well.
TABS:
iCab Mobile supports Tabs, so you can open multiple web pages at the same time. Links can be opened in Tabs (in the foreground or background) manually or automatically.
BOOKMARKS:
Bookmarks can be organized in folders. You can import/export the bookmarks from/to your PC/Mac browser.
FULLSCREEN MODE:
iCab Mobile provides a fullscreen mode where the whole screen is used to display the web page. No screen space is wasted for toolbars.
DOWNLOADS:
iCab Mobile has a built-in Download Manager so you can download almost all files from the internet. The downloads can be easily transfered to a Mac/PC/Linux computer but also to other Apps on the device which can open these files
MULTIUSER SUPPORT
You can create multiple user accounts, each user has its own private bookmarks, filters, settings, etc.
DROPBOX
iCab Mobile supports Dropbox. Export/Import bookmarks; transfer downloads, images, files, web pages to your Dropbox account.
TWIN BROWSER:
In this mode, you can have two browsers side by side on the iPad. This is especially useful on the large iPad Pro.
VOICEOVER
The App is also accessible for visually impaired and blind users. If VoiceOver is enabled, the App plays soft ticks while a page is loading, so blind users are able to identify when the page load has finished.
OTHER FEATURE:
- Configurable multi-touch gestures
- QuickStarter feature
- AirPrint support
- Browser ID (UserAgent) is configurable
- iCab Mobile fully supports international domain names
- Cookie Manager
- Private Browsing (no history and no cookies are stored)
- Privacy settings allows to delete all kinds of private data (history, cookies, databases, saved forms, passwords etc.)
- URL autocompletion
- Simple built-in RSS reader
- Save images, whole web pages, PDF files
- Kiosk Mode - a restricted variation of the fullscreen mode for Kiosk environments.
- History
- Addressbook support lets you access the web pages from the addressbook.
- When launching iCab can either open an empty page, the homepage or restore the Tabs which were open the last time
- Page-Compression is supported to save bandwith.
- There are different color schemes and designs
- Document Sharing lets you pass downloads and files to other Apps in the device
The App includes a store providing several InApp purchases. These are meant as a tip jar. The InApp purchases are available for different prices, so you can pick the amount for the tip yourself. Doing so will unlock a few cool features as a reward, these are always the same, regardless of the amount of the tip. Users who have purchased the App within the last 12 months do get all these features for free, no need to buy one of the InApp purchases. Though they can nevertheless give me a tip, if they want to... ;-)
What’s New
- It's now possible to access the modules list from within the action menu (when configured this way).
- It's now possible to configure a multi-finger tap gesture to open a link in a new tab. For example you could tap a link with 2 fingers to open it in a new tab and tap with 3 fingers to open it in a background tab.
- The picture browser for downloads is now able to handle more than 10000 pictures without running in memory issues
Love it but 12.3 problem
iOS 12.3 seems to have broken the URL / search input field. When text is entered to attempt to do a Google (or whatever) search, or when entering a URL, instead the current page is searched like a “find” command. A failed “search in page” message box pops up in either case which leaves you and the browser dead in the water. You can still select from your bookmarks but that’s about it. Can’t type in anything new, unless you manually add a bookmark for a search engine or something else. I have not been able to fix this by changing anything in settings, not even “combined URL+Search Field”. This is a real show stopper with the 12.3 update.
The other problem I have always had is that on older style textual “bulletin board” type forums that involve lots of hyperlinks up and down the page, iCab usually doesn’t
“Go to” the right place when you click a link; in other words it goes to the wrong message which is a bit annoying. It sometimes returns to a previously visited link and in other cases seems to go some fixed percentage of the way up or down the page. So I have to do a whole bunch of manual scrolling to get to the right place and this is constantly!
Even given the above, iCab is still pretty much the only browser I’ll use on iOS (but the URL field problem has to be fixed pronto!)
The browser that does everything
iCab includes every feature of a desktop browser--and then adds more. It's ad block capability is first rate, particularly the feature that analyzes filters to display those that are actively blocking content, and importantly, reports domains that aren't being blocked so additional filters can be written if desired. I especially like the download folder and the enhancement that automatically backs these up to iCloud. An action can also be added to format and download web pages to pdf format without the use of third party converters that typically insert ads or format the page poorly.
Given the large number of features and large degree of customization that is possible, it can become confusing at times, particularly the grouping of features in the Settings menu. By necessity it's granular and seeking that particular option you know exists but cannot immediately find can require scouring Settings and the action menus. The dev has added a search capability to Settings which is immensely helpful, but I’d suggest new users become acclimated to the default settings before customizing.
Lastly, I used in-app tool to provide the dev some incremental revenue and encourage others to do the same. Unlike some devs that require purchasing new versions to receive the latest enhancements, Alex has enhanced and supported iCab without requiring us to drop one cent beyond the initial investment. It hasn't gone unnoticed.
Too many problems
I'd love to love this browser. It's more like a good desktop browser than a mobile browser.
However, it just plain does not work. No matter what browser ID I use (even WebKit), pages don't render well, they reload, it's like looking at bits and pieces of a page being placed where other bits and pieces are so it re-renders. It's also dead slow rendering some sites, bits and pieces float all over the place, frequently covering what you want to read, some sites crash (Trip Advisor, Reuters), the folks at iCab obviously love social networking sites as the ribbon with all their links is usually there, at times floating around in the middle of pages, even when it's off to the side there's no margin for it to stay in so you have to read around it. iCab can block ads. But then again, not all ads. Not nearly as many ads as Safari. And there's no way to ad a filter list to improve its ad blocking or get rid of annoyances.
As the web gets worse and worse to visit, iCab has gotten worse and worse to use. The one good functionality that always works though is the 'Open in Safari' button.
Icab Browser Download
Information
Icab Browser Download For Windows 10
Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
English, Catalan, Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Upgrade$0.99
- Upgrade plus Generous Tip$2.99
- Upgrade plus Extra Generous Tip $5.99
Supports
Wallet
Get all of your passes, tickets, cards, and more in one place.
Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.
| Developer(s) | Alexander Clauss |
|---|---|
| Initial release | February 17, 1999; 20 years ago |
| Stable release(s)[±] | |
| 5.8.6 (September 28, 2018; 10 months ago[1])[±] | |
| Preview release(s)[±] | |
| Operating system | Mac OS, iOS (active), Classic Mac OS 7.5–9.2.2 (discontinued) |
| Available in | English, German, French, Danish, Spanish, Russian, Norwegian, Chinese and Japanese |
| Type | Web browser Feed reader |
| License | Shareware |
| Website | icab.de |
iCab is a web browser for Mac OS by Alexander Clauss, derived from Crystal Atari Browser (CAB) for Atari TOS compatible computers.[2] It was one of the few browsers still updated for the classic Mac OS prior to that version being discontinued after version 3.0.5 in 2008;[3] today Classilla is the only browser still maintained for that OS.[4]
The downloadable product is fully functional, but is nagware—periodically displaying a dialog box asking the user to register the product, and upgrade to the 'Pro' version.[5]
Versions[edit]
iCab 2.9.9 supports both 68k and PowerPC Macintosh systems running System 7.5 through Mac OS 9.2.2. While no longer maintained, iCab 2.9.9 is still available for download and registration.
iCab 2.9.8 runs natively on early versions of Mac OS X, but Mac OS X compatible versions of iCab 2.x are no longer officially available for download.
iCab 3.x can run on PowerPC systems running Mac OS 8.5 through Mac OS 9.2.2, or PowerPC or Intel systems running Mac OS X 10.1 or later. iCab 3 was last updated in January 2008.
iCab 4 was rewritten to use the Cocoa API and the WebKitrendering engine. It can run on PowerPC or Intel systems running Mac OS 10.3.9 or later.
iCab 5 was released on June 12, 2012. It runs on Mac OS 10.5 or later.
History[edit]
The first versions of iCab were criticized for not supporting CSS and DOM.[citation needed] iCab 3 introduced improved rendering capabilities, including support for CSS2 and Unicode (via the ATSUI toolkit). iCab 4 switched to WebKit for its rendering engine, giving it the same rendering abilities as Apple's Safari browser.
On 7 June 2009, iCab 4.6, using the WebKit rendering engine, became the first desktop browser released to display a score of 100/100 and pass the Acid3 test.[citation needed] Apple's Safari 4 browser was released one day later and has been officially credited as being the first official release browser to pass the Acid3 test with a score of 100/100.
Features[edit]
iCab features a filter manager which allows users to avoid downloading advertisements and other content. Currently iCab comes with two filters (advertisements and video). Other kinds of filters add features, such as the YouTubevideo filter which adds a download link on all YouTube page views.
iCab has features for website developers, including an HTML validity checker, an automatic page refresh option, a Web Inspector, DOM Inspector, JavaScript debugger, and a Console. iCab's 'Automatic Update' option, for any page it is rendering directly from the local hard disk, will automatically reload the page when changes are saved to disk. The HTML syntax validity checker displays a smiley face in the Status Bar and also, optionally, in the Toolbar. Clicking on the smiley will bring up a list of any errors on the page, as will 'Error Report' from the Tools menu. Double clicking on an error will display the page source, with the offending syntax highlighted. The HTML syntax validator was first seen in the same author's earlier web browser, CAB.
iCab's Download manager allows the user to start, stop, resume and review downloads. It maintains a download history, and supports downloading of an individual page, or a whole site (crawling) with many user-selectable crawl-constraint options. It can save as portable web archives (a ZIP archive containing HTML, images and other files), or as individual files on the local hard drive.
iCab also contains the following features:[6]
- Tabbed browsing.
- Javascript and CSS2 support.
- Multiple language support, including Arabic on older Macs (cannot display UTF-16 pages).
- Filtering:
- Filtering out of images and plugin content (e.g. ads).
- Adjust rendering, network, JavaScript, and cookies settings for individual sites or types of pages.
- Kiosk mode: full screen display and access controls.
- Acid2 test compliance.
- Configurable print dialog.
- History window which can sort by title, last access date, or URL.
- Hotlist (bookmark) mechanism which can automatically or manually check for updates to bookmarked sites.
- Reload a single image on a page without needing to reload the whole page.
- Disable web 'annoyances' such as animated GIFs and embedded sound files.
- User agent spoofing (i.e. pretending to be another browser).
- Support for sessions (i.e. saving and then loading all open windows and tabs).
- Add any query (e.g., search engine, Wikipedia) to the toolbar search widget by point-and-click.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Clauss, Alexander (2018-09-28). 'iCab - Downloads'. iCab - Internet Browser. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
- ^Patting, Sebastian (2011-11-22). 'Interview with Alexander Clauss, iCab's Creator'. Low End Mac. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
- ^'iCab Download'.
- ^Smykil, Jeff (2009-07-13). 'Browse the Web in style with Classilla for Mac OS 9'. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
- ^'Purchase/Register iCab'. 2016-08-03. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
- ^Gilberstone, Scott (2008-01-03). 'iCab 4.0: A feature-packed reincarnation of the venerable mac browser'. Wired. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- 'Thoughts on the Memory Efficiency of iCab and Programming in the 80s' by John A. Ardelli