iCab: Alternative Browser for macOS

Wow, I helped translate this (well, the iOS version) into Czech many many years ago! I’m glad it still exists, the author — Alex, if I remember right — is very friendly and a great developer.<p>It was my first “freelance” project; I didn’t even expect him to pay, I just liked his browser and wanted to feel like a grown man (was 14 at the time). But he insisted he’ll pay me; it was the first money I ever made. Ah, good memories. If the author sees this: Good luck!

Anyone remember the “Make iCab Smile” campaign? The UI featured a little smiley face in the corner that would change to a frown if there were too many HTML validation errors.

iCab Mobile is also one of the only truly unique iOS browsers. Was the only way to reliably download multiple files for years on iOS, and today still is the closest to having browser add-ons in iOS. Supported uploading files long before Safari too. Its custom zoom levels made many web apps usable on the original non-pro iPad screen sizes as you could fake a higher resolution screen (and you could change your user agent if websites refused to show their desktop version). You can tweak iCab&#x27;s interface quite a bit too, which makes it a great way to make an internet appliance of sorts to show a single website without having extra toolbars and stuff.<p>It&#x27;s not my default browser, but is a great tool to keep around!

I personally use iCab for using the internet on classic Mac OS machines. Very useful, as it’s the most recent browser supporting them.<p>Other than that, I’m not usre if this is worth the effort on usual machines... I would recommend Safari instead.

I used to use this in college before I switched to Camino!

I can&#x27;t believe it still exists!

I recognise it from Mac OS 9 days, and downloaded it to try it again now.<p>Something I miss from Safari on Mac OS 10.9 was seeing full names in the tab bar. iCab, Chrome, and Firefox all shrink tabs down to their favicon.<p>Old versions of Safari would show the whole name, and if there wasn&#x27;t space, it would overflow into a dropdown list on the right.<p>Yes, you probably can accuse me of opening too many tabs, but I have an amusing anecdote about how I recovered some front-end dev work from tab source when our DigitalOcean server crashed a few weeks ago.

Good to see iCab is still around. For reals, kudos for perseverance!

I remember Cab for the TT and Falcon. I had not realized it went on to become a Mac browser.<p>A shame, in a way, that the web is now so complex that alternative browsers are ever more marginalized.

Why are all the screenshots on this page from 2007, and use 10.5 Leopard, if the browser doesn’t even support it anymore?<p>Oh, because the actual user interface did not change since then. A print button? The entire browser chrome over two times as large as Safari’s or Firefox’s? I don’t see the point in using iCab in 2020, let alone paying $10 for it.

Apparently it switched to Webkit a while back.

Anyone remember the browsers that made you small amounts of money per hour for using them to surf the web?

This browser seems more customizable to me: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;next.atlas.engineer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;next.atlas.engineer&#x2F;</a><p>Based on iCab&#x27;s homepage, it&#x27;s unclear why would I want to use it really.