With ß53 “stand-alone WebApplications” (think Fluid) have come to iCab, along with a useful Cache Browser.

Along with the geo-detection, this is really excellent work.

Good to see the 'Inspector' now and keychain access has improved.

Could do with a javascript console and something like SafariDockStatus for the feed count.

iCab has come on leaps and bounds with webkit. The latest build ß25 has now resizable text fields and the auto password filling from the keychain gets it right (good news if you use the likes of Textpattern).

Still not as fast as Webkit, Safari, Sunrise, Demeter (and Shiira if you can put up with the errant behaviour) or the beta Opera and Firefox but getting there and leaves standard Camino/Firefox in it's wake.

It has a nice feel to it, handles Bookmarks differently, but you get used to it. There is sadly no 'Web Inspector' from webkit, but it does have a cool 'Page Overview'. I have only minor niggles with it really; love to see a toolbar button for kiosk mode and bookmarks in (say) a side drawer ala Opera. It's very stable though.

A solid browser. I'll be sticking with Firefox because of those can't-do-without plugins, but iCab has some advantages seen nowhere else:

• Extremely fast. Not even Safari beats it on rendering speed
• Works on very old Macs, such as my wife's laptop
• Kiosk mode is well designed and very useable

Great! I'm a fan of iCab's Error Reporting. Love the Filter Manager too. Added one to use Safari Identity to load Gmail correctly. Still lite and quick to launch.

iCab 3.0.5 has also been released simultaneously with 4.0.0. Still runs on Mac OS 8.5 or newer.

A long time user - Version 4.0 (up to ß19) has (finally) gone to use Apple's WebKit driver (sic?) is blisteringly fast to boot, and has all the iCab tools that you miss so badly when you need to use another browser. Developed by ONE man, it WAS the first browser to do Acid 2 stock. Safari was first, but was severely tweeked to do so.

Try it, and you'll always use it first.

p.s. v4 is currently missing some of the old web-site builder favourite tools, like instantly updating your web page as you modify code elsewhere - might return later.

It's a shame this browser doesn't get more recognition, because it's quite a feat to develop fully-functional browser these days.
It was one of the first to pass Acid2 test (that requires solid, advanced CSS2.1 and HTML support)

Progress seems to have slowed on this browser. When's the next release due out?

In my experience (using iCab since 2000), iCab has a more reliable web archive format than Safari. It's based on the ZIP compression standard, and iCab web archives can actually be expanded by any decompression utility to see all the files contained therein. I've had many Safari web archives fail to load once the cache had been flushed and the computer disconnected from the network, indicating its failure to create a truly offline copy of the page.

iCab is also light years ahead of the pack in terms of filtering of objects, cookies and scripts. It may be the most user-configurable browser available.