iCab 4.2.5

iCab is an alternative web browser for the Apple Macintosh with numerous useful features not found in other browsers. You can download the current release from the download page, though development is not yet complete.
iCab 4 uses the Cocoa file formats where ever this is possible. Therefore some files from iCab 2/3 can not be used in iCab 4 anymore. iCab automatically imports the Hotlist of older iCab releases, but saves the bookmarks in a new Cocoa compatible file format afterwards.
iCab 4 can load and save the old web Archive files and the "session" files. All other old files (Preferences, History, Cookies, Filters) can not be read by the new iCab 4, but in general this is not really necessary (the history or cookie data will be created automatically after some time, so loading the old data is not important here)
iCab can read/write Safari WebArchives and also iCab WebArchives. Certain features like creating Session archives will work only with iCab WebArchives
because Safari Webarchives can only store one single page.
When opening iCab WebArchives these archives will be used like a web cache for the tab or window. You can open any number of archives in a tab/window and all these archives will be used like a web cache.
So when opening a web page, iCab will look first if the page can be found in one of the archives and loads it from there. An icon in the status bar displays if web archives are assigned to the tab/window. Clicking this icon you can remove the WebArchives from the window/tab again.
When you create a Session Archive (File menu) iCab will save all data of all web pages which are loaded in the tab/window in a WebArchive. To indicate that a "recording" takes place, the Tab is displayed in a special color (if no Tab toolbar is visible, a colored line is displayed at the top of the window). The Archive can be opened later and you can revisit the pages later without the need to be online.
Cocoa has its own global "Cookie Storage", which is used globally for all Cocoa web applications. So a cookie that is accepted in Safari can be accessed in iCab 4 or Shiira and all other Cocoa applications using this Cocoa Cookie storage.
Having a global cookie storage can be positive (because all applications might share the same cookies) but it has also some negative aspects (deleting/rejecting cookies in one browser may not mean that you want to delete this cookie in other bowsers as well).
Also the global Cookie storage of Cocoa has some limitations. Therefore iCab 4 can use its own private cookie storage but also the global one of Cocoa (the user can configure this).
Some features (for increased security) do only work with iCabs private cookie storage, so using the private cookie storage is the default setting in iCab 4. In the Cookie manager you can access and edit both cookie storages.
You can still create Logfiles where iCab logs all the HTTP headers recieved from web servers, but you can now also log the HTTP headers directly into the Console window, so the HTTP responses can be watched "live".

System requirements:
- Mac with G3, G4, G5 or Intel processor.

Version restrictions:
- Nag screen.
- Some features of the Pro version are disabled.

Enhancements:
- New keyboard shortcuts for the Download Manager added.
- Fixes an issue with the preview fo the cache browser.
- Includes a workaround for a new bug of 10.5.5.