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January 2, 2008

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Just in time for a new year, we find out iCab isn’t dead

Posted Jan. 2, ’08, 5:23 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Software

iCab I’ll admit something rather quietly to you readers. I bought a license to iCab back in the days when nearly all browsers for OS X were dogs. Omniweb’s Javascript was lacking, Firefox, Camino, and Safari didn’t exist, and Mozilla was buggy at best. (Let’s not even mention the train wreck that was Internet Explorer for OS X.) iCab was fairly fast and seemed rather promising. Unfortunately, that promise didn’t pan out.

iCab reached version 4.0 on the last day of last year. Fantastic that it hasn’t outright given up. I can’t imagine a generation not getting to see the little smiley or frowny face that describes how much iCab likes the code of the page you’re currently at. The new features include a complete rewrite using Cocoa instead of Carbon. It also has a shiny new interface. In fact, it has features like drag and drop tab re-ordering much like Safari.

I’m hard pressed to recommend the browser for most users over Firefox, Safari, Camino, Omniweb, etc. but it does have some power user features that more particular users may not want to live without. Visit the homepage for a free download and even more information.


1 Comments

Anonymous said:

iCab can display Thai Web page correctly with the right word break, the same feature Safari and IE do. That is not the case with Firefox, Opera, Camino, Omniweb, etc.

January 2, 2008 10:00 AM

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