![]() ![]() Again this feature is customizable, so you could set m to perform a search on Low End Mac. g appleswitcher would search google for appleswitcher and y appleswicher would perform the same search except with yahoo. Customizable modifiers for searching straight from the address bar. ![]() Robust (for a browser) download manager.Built-in RSS reader (particularly nice in the classic Mac OS, but still useful for OS X).Flexible and extensive application preferences including my favorites such as JavaScript filters and interface configuration.Filter Manager (very granular per site content filter).The 4.0.0 beta seems to have retained most of the features found in the iCab 3.0 releases: My wish has finally been granted and I am positively ecstatic. 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.
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