I long wished for iCab to rise again as a modern web browser with the front end of the old iCab grafted to a modern backend such as WebKit or Gecko. I suppose my point in posting all this info is to say, please do not give up on iCab just yet. ![]() Quick Hits: Why iCab 4.0 Is So Great And How It Compares To Version 3.0 I suppose it would suffice to say that I had fallen behind on the newest iCab betas and the current public release was not as new as the older iCab betas I had formerly been using. Similarly, my web browser mainstay, Opera, was likewise too darn good to make me think I needed to bother with a third option. Safari 2, and Safari 3 after the 10.4.11 update, were much better than the old version of Safari I had been steadfastly not using when I was stuck on Panther. After my iMac died just a couple months later, I still didn’t bother to install iCab on my latest Mac, my fantastic Late 2006 Core 2 Duo MacBook. While I still loved iCab, I never bothered reinstalling it on my G3 iMac when I upgraded to Tiger this past September. Versions of iCab have been at first distributed as betas to registered users, before being released months later as a pubic product.Version 3 was also noteworthy in that it packed even more features into its already extensive featureset. Version 3 was much more compatible with modern web standards, at least to the eye of this web development layman, yet was too often excruciatingly slow at rendering pages.Version 2 had limited rendering compatibility, but was pretty fast at loading pages.My personal use of iCab has found the following to be true: Since I have been a user, iCab has remained very customizable and powerful and the only browser to maintain development for the classic Mac OS. If not at the old AppleSwitcher forums, then on Low End Mac or one of the other Mac forums perhaps. If not at the old AppleSwitcher forums, then on Low End Mac or one of the other Mac forums. Some of you may remember me rambling incoherently about how powerful iCab is as a web browser.
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