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Re: iCab: Alternative Browser for macOS

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does iCab compare to Classilla? Which itself is very out of date. https://www.floodgap.com/software/classilla/

Classilla handles modern pages better, but iCab has better performance/memory usage

That's how you would describe the Lynx browser or curl. Way better performance and memory usage but much lower ability to handle modern pages.

Re: iCab: Alternative Browser for macOS

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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 age…

Aren’t all browsers on iOS using WebKit by Apple decree? I mean the ones you get via AppStore, at least.

Re: iCab: Alternative Browser for macOS

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

Or offered free internet while showing a banner below.

Or those spin wheel / lotto websites where you would get a limited amount of plays daily but would win real money. Then they send you a real 4 dollar check/cheque.

I wonder what happened to company behind the punch the monkey banner.

Those were the days people thought we would all be working and living through the internet (perhaps in second life style) soon and buying everything. Ironicly 20 years later we are being forced to life this way.

Re: iCab: Alternative Browser for macOS

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

Oh my God, I loved Camino so much! The browser scene for the Mac in the early Aught's was such a mess. Netscape was bloated, slow as hell, and wasn't keeping up with standards. IE was great, but you were always suspicious of MS's agenda. Safari was still a bit rough and lacked a lot of features. Camino was snappy, clean, and had very good standards compliance. Such a great little browser!

Camino was great. Got the whole family on it before eventually migrating them to Firefox around FF4.

Re: iCab: Alternative Browser for macOS

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

Oh my God, I loved Camino so much! The browser scene for the Mac in the early Aught's was such a mess. Netscape was bloated, slow as hell, and wasn't keeping up with standards. IE was great, but you were always suspicious of MS's agenda. Safari was still a bit rough and lacked a lot of features. Camino was snappy, clean, and had very good standards compliance. Such a great little browser!

Do you remember Shiira? :)

Re: iCab: Alternative Browser for macOS

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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 age…

Aren’t all browsers on iOS using WebKit by Apple decree? I mean the ones you get via AppStore, at least.

That is correct. It means that as a web dev, you can only use IOS for testing webkit.

Re: iCab: Alternative Browser for macOS

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post #34

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 age…

Aren’t all browsers on iOS using WebKit by Apple decree? I mean the ones you get via AppStore, at least.

Yup, still Webkit, still essentially Safari in a wrapper. iCab just built a more powerful wrapper than most.

Re: iCab: Alternative Browser for macOS

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

I loved iCab on both MacOS 9.x and on early iterations of OS X. Eventually, I started using Opera as my main browser on OS X, which had a lot of features that other browsers adopted a lot later, like tabs. Then Firefox came around, and the rest is history.

Re: iCab: Alternative Browser for macOS

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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 age…

iCab is my main browser on iOS, I love the configurability and the plethora of features. Safari has caught up quite a bit, but iCab is still the best IMHO.
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