iCab browser review

The configurable web browser, iCab is packed with a number of useful features like Tabbed browsing, java-script and CSS2 support with multiple language support, including Arabic on older Macs. Its filtering feature consists of sophisticated filtering out of images and plugin content with adjust rendering, network, java-script, and cookies settings for individual sites or types of pages. It has full screen display and access controls as kiosk mode. Its download manager allows the user start, stop, resume and review downloads and maintains a download history, also supporting the process of downloading one page or a whole site (crawling) with many configuration options. The Portable web archives are capable of saving pages as a ZIP archive containing HTML and images. Other significant features are Acid2 test conformity, very 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, can reload a single image on a page without the need to reload the whole page, can disable web “annoyances” such as animated GIFs and embedded sound files. It can support for sessions (i.e. saving and then loading all open windows and tabs) and can add any query (e.g., search engine, Wikipedia) to the toolbar search widget by point-and-click. One fascinating feature of iCab is the iCab-Smiley.

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