iCab 4.0 Beta 41 Web Browser Released
The iCab 4.0 interface as been given a facelift, and is now a contemporary-looking black on grayscale theme, and has a very professional look.
iCab 4 uses the Cocoa file formats wherever possible, some files from iCab 2/3 can not be used in iCab 4 anymore. iCab 4 can read/write Safari WebArchives and also iCab WebArchives. Certain features like creating Session archives will work only with iCab WebArchives because Safari Webarchives can only store a single page.
Changes in Beta 41 (28.03.2008):
- If the user created or edited a Session file manually (which is nothing a user should do unless he really knows what he is doing) and some information was forgotten to be included in the session file, it could happen that iCab would open the sesson window as invisible window. Now iCab is doing some additional checks so prevent this.
- Bugfix for the AppleScript property "window". Now setting the size of a browser window should work again.
- If the option "Stack windows" is enabled in the Window preferences, iCab will no longer remeber the sizes of all the open browser windows. This is only done when this setting is switched off.
- When quitting iCab while downloads are still running, iCab now asks the user if iCab should really abort the downloads and quit.
- The "Search" window will now always on the active "Screen" when "Spaces" of Leopard is active.
- Bugfix when parsing the DOCTYPE definition if the URL part of this definition was missing.
- When the user edits the URL of a finished download to repeat the same download with a different URL, some internal Download settings did not refect the new URL immediately.
- The Shareware reminder box will no longer get the focus while iCab is inactive.
Changes in Beta 40 (18.03.2008):
- Small correction for Leopard so that saving images that were loaded directly (not embeded in HTML code) will work better.
- Dragging URLs directly into the Download manager does now only create a new download item but will not start the download immediately. So now the newly created entry can be edited easily.
- In the Boomarks window starting the inline editing is now done after a short delay so that a double-click can be recognized more reliable.
- The build-in RSS reader does now also work for many RSS feeds where WebKit didn't recognize that these are XML files.
- When searching in the History window iCab will now also search in closed folders, opening them automatically when needed.
- Small adaption to the new WebKit release (Safari 3.1) where the click with the third mouse button (middle button) didn't work anymore. Now iCab hooks itself into internal WebKit structures to get such clicks again.
Changes in Beta 39 (11.03.2008):
- Scaling the thumbnails in the "Tab Overview" will be now done in a higher quality.
- It's now possible to enter Cmd-Return, Cmd-Shift-Return, Cmd-Alt-Return and Cmd-Alt-Shift-Return in the URL field and Search field of the browser toolbar to open the URL or search result in a new window or Tab in the background or foreground.
- The contextual menu in the browser window can now be also opened by holding down the left mouse button for a while, if this feature is enabled in the Preferences dialog in the "General > Contextual Menu" panel. The standard way to open the contextual menu (Right-Click or Control-Click) does always work.
- If the Force-Quit-Command was disabled in the Kiosk preferences, which also disables Exposé and Dashboard, Exposé and Dashboard were not enabled again when the Kioks mode was left.
- Double-clicking in the background of the Tabs toolbar will now also create a new Tab.
- The new CSS text field in the "Layout" settings of the filter manager could "leak" its content into other filters, when switching between different filters. This is fixed now.
- The error report feature didn't always select the right location in the sourcecode when showing the error location. This happened only when the source code contained some Unicode characters from a "higher" Unicode code page.
- iCab recognizes geo-tagged web pages. The status bar now has an additional icon which indicates if the currently displayed web page is geo-tagged via META tag. Clicking the icon will then open a popup menu where the location is displayed in plain text (if provided by the web page) and when selecting the menu item in the popup menu the location is shown in google maps (At the moment the popup menu of this GeoTag icon will only have one menu item. Later it may have additional menu items for geo-tagged images or other geo-tagged media that is found in the web page).
System requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3.9 or newer required, some details require Mac OSX 10.4 or 10.5
- iCab 4 is Universal Binary, so it runs natively on PPC and Intel Macs
For more information about iCab or to download available versions, visit:
http://www.icab.de/
iCab 4.0 beta 41 download:
http://www.icab.de/_iCab4Beta_/index.html
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