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Until these two issues are addressed by Apple in a future software update, it will be impossible for any third-party browser to become my full-time iPhone browser. Second, you can’t use iCab Mobile to access any site that uses Apache’s That means you can’t use it, instead of Mobile Safari, for links opened from external sources such as Mail or SMS. First, you can’t set iCab Mobile as your default browser. The other two problems are things that the developer can’t do anything about-they’re restrictions due to issues on Apple’s side of the iPhone. After relaunching the app, though, those same pages would load just fine, so I’m not sure what was going on here. Some other crashes, though, occurred with only one or two open tabs, and seem to have been caused by something on the specific page I was loading. For those situations, a low memory warning-if possible-would be a welcome addition to the program. Some of these incidents were clearly my fault, as I was opening way too many tabbed pages given the limited memory available. The one problem the developer may be able to address is that iCab Mobile would occasionally crash, dumping me back to the main iPhone screen. I only have three real complaints about iCab Mobile, and the developer can’t do anything about two of those issues. As a test, I imported my huge (nearly 500KB) Firefox bookmark list, and iCab Mobile handled it quickly and without any troubles.įinally, iCab Mobile includes extensive help documenting all its key features-tap the Gear icon, scroll to the bottom, and tap iCab Mobile Help to browse the nicely-organized help files.

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Start up the server, connect to the IP address displayed on your iPhone, and you can import bookmarks (saved in HTML format) from your Mac or PC, or export iCab’s bookmarks. You can import and export bookmarks using iCab Mobile’s built-in webserver. I used this feature to add to the list of search sources, and it worked perfectly.

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If that’s not enough, you can add your own search engines with relative ease-you just need to run a search on the site first, and then enter the URL with a special variable substitution code in the right spot. (If you use this last option, you can’t open the results on a new tab instead, the matching terms on the current site are nicely highlighted.) You can search using Google, Yahoo, Lycos, Wikipedia, or Ebay, or search on the currently-loaded page. On this screen, you enter your search terms, specify whether to open the results in a new tab or not, and choose which search engine you’d like to use. Instead, you tap a magnifying glass to open the Searching screen. ICab Mobile’s search feature is different than most other browsers-there’s no dedicated search box in the URL bar. (When the browser restarts, it will attempt to reload the opened tabs most of the time, this worked well for me, though iCab Mobile occasionally lost a few open tabs.) So be careful with this feature, as it’s easy to open too many background tabs. This isn’t a crash per se, but it looks like one to the user. If you run out of memory, the iPhone OS will summarily quit the program. This option works very well, within the memory constraints of the iPhone-the machine’s limited memory limits the number of background tabs you can open. There’s also a top-level option to open all tabs in the background with this set, all links will always open in background tabs. ICab Mobile offers good control over link behavior, as well as image display, ad filters, and enabling and disabling image display You can also specify to be prompted for link handling with this feature enabled, a pop-up menu containing these same link-handling options will appear after tapping a link. Using the program’s options screen, you can set-independently for links to the same domain and links to other domains-whether a link opens normally (as defined by the Web site, either in a new tab or the same tab), in a new tab, or in the current tab. While not as convenient as in-browser tabs, it’s a good solution given the limited screen real estate of the iPhone.įor link-heavy sites, iCab Mobile offers a variety of ways to manage what happens when you click a link. This is the only way to switch tabs you can’t flip between them via a swipe, for instance. Instead, each tab appears on an Open Tabs page click any listed tab to switch to that tab in the browser. ICab uses a tab-centric design, though the way tabs are implemented is more window-like than tab-like-there aren’t visible tabs within the window as you’d see in most any desktop browser.

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