93 According to market research stats., iCab enjoys a less than one percent share of the Mac Web browser market, which is a shame because it's an excellent program that deserves wider use. I have conducted no formal benchmarking, after putting 4.0.1 through its paces for a few weeks, my seat-of-the-pants impression is that it's now playing in the same league speed-wise as Firefox and Safari.

Active development of iCab continues, and version 4.0.1 Beta 43 was released last Friday - a maintenance update that adds a few refinements and tweaks to the already speedy and solid browser. Note that iCab's interim beta releases are offered only to registered users.

New in Beta 43:

- The new keyboard shortcut Control-Alt-T can be used to switch on the Tabs Toolbar when it is hidden (for example because the window only contains one single document and iCab is configured to hide the Tabs toolbar in this case). The shortcut can be useful if the user wants to drag the document of this window as Tab into another window to combine the two windows into a single one.

- iCab nuw supports the ".url" files of Internet Explorer (Windows or Mac version). These files are the windows counterpart of the "webloc" files on the Mac.

- Double-clicking a folder in the history window will no longer try to open the wohle content of this folder as Tabs or Windows. Now the folder itself will open or close itself.

- Colors and bold face text in the error report window help to find the important keywords.

- Syntax hilighting for the source code window implemented

- iCab now remembers the last choice of the file format option of the "Save" dialog box (WebArchive, Safari Archive, HTML or Text) and will preselect the last choice the next time the save box is opened again..

- If iCab is configured to pass FTP links to an external FTP application, iCab is doing this much faster now when a FTP link is clicked.

- Dragging the Icon of the URL field to the Finder will now create a "webloc" file with the document title as file name. Befor eht eURL was used for the file name.

- Small correction when zooming images.

- When loading Session files iCab will now (optionally) ask if it is OK to overwrite the current session with the one from the file or if the current session should be saved before the file will be loaded. This confirmation can be anabled/disabled in the "General" preferences in the "Other" tab

Changes in Beta 42 (08.04.2008):

- In the Network settings you can now configure if iCab should process FTP links itself or if the external FTP application that is configured in the system as default FTP application is called instead to precess the FTP link.

- Added a new option in the Tabs settings to swap the keyboard shortcuts for new windows and new Tabs. Before this shortcut swap was bound to the option "Open Tabs instead of Windows". Now these are individual settings. This way you can get the same shortcuts as in Safari (which doesn't have the option "Open Tabs instead of Windows").

- Asking for the number of windows in AppleScript did also take the closed and invisible windows into account. This doesn't happen anymore.

- Saving web sites whose title contains the "/" character did use only the part after the "/" as filename. This happend because the "/" has a special meaning if file and path names. Now the "/" is converted into "-" so the whole title can be used as file name.

- It could happen that iCab opened an infinit number of new windows, when hitting Cmd-Return after entering a new URL in the URL field and the
new web page was loaded immediately without any delay and didn't contain any form field.

- It's now possible to "paste" URLs into the Download Manager window to create new downloads via Copy&Paste.

- When loading files from a local disk ("file:" URLs) iCab will now show a "proxy" icon in the titlebar of the window. Control-Clicking or Cmd-Clicking the proxy icon will display a popup menu where you can access all the parent folders of the local file, so it's very easy to locate the file in the Finder..

- Bugfix for the Bookmark import of Netscape and iCab 3 bookmarks. When the imported bookmarks files contained a totally empty folder code without any folder content and title, then the follwowing bookmarks were inserted in the wrong bookmars folder.

- When imported bookmarks files did use an invalid text encoding, bookmark titles with non-ASCII characters could be imported with an empty title instead. Now iCab will try out different encodings and if none will result in valid text, iCab will just remove the invalid characters and keep the rest.

- Bugfix for the Error report. iCab could crash if an extrenal CSS file was completely empty.

System requirements for iCab 4:
MacOSX 10.3.9 and newer,
MacOSX 10.4.x or 10.5.x is recommended.

System Support:
PPC/Intel

$25 Shareware/Freeware (NagWare)

For more information, visit:
http://www.icab.de/

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