Version 10.7.407 February 2024- A new option in the Web Site settings allows to block/skip the tracking links on the google search result
- The in-page search now remembers the last search position, so you can continue the search even when aborted the search completely before (of course only when you are still on the same page and the search term does not change)
- Removes a filter from the default ads blocker which could prevent that links of the google image search function as expected
- Fixes an issue with creating QR codes for links under iOS 17
- Removed the "google cache" module because google discontinued this service
- Fixes an issue when launching the App through one of the options from the menu of the App icon on the homescreen while being logged out of all users accounts. The command from the App menu was ignored in this case, instead of executing the command after logging-in with a user account..
Version 10.7.314 October 2023- In the web site settings there's now a new option to disable "universal links". The "Universal links" feature of the iOS allows App to redirect links to their website to themselves, so these links won't open in the browser anymore. But because many users do not like this "hijacking" of links, this can now be prevented with the new setting.
- Workaround added for an iOS bug when handling fragment identifiers within "data" URLs
- Bugfix: When opening many links in the background very fast it could happen that not all pages did load.
- Bugfix: Fixes a crash when opening a private Tab under certain circumstances
- Bugfix: Fixes a crash when processing a very large number of new files within the downloads when there are already a large number of files in there.
Version 10.7.210 March 2023Unfortunately the new quickstarter can trigger a bug of the iOS, which has the result that the quickstarter does not always show its bookmarks. This iOS bug only affects tabs which were already used for a while to load web sites. So the issue only reveals itself after a while. If and when the bug shows up can also depend on the device hardware and iOS release. New tabs were never affected.
This update of iCab Mobile includes a workaround for this iOS issue so it can avoid the empty quickstarter..
Version 10.6.720 December 2022- Since iOS 15 there's a new menu item available for the action menu, which allows to directly pause all media output (audio/video). This works on a global level, so you don't need to know which tab plays audio or video content. This menu item is also available in the contextual menu of the Tabs, so you don't need to add an additional item to the action menu.
- The user-defined Browser IDs can now have their own name which is used in the list of IDs in the settings. This allows to distinguish the IDs by name instead of by ID. If no name is given, the ID is listed.
- In the bookmarks window you can now sort bookmarks in "edit" mode. You can sort by name, URL, label and date
- In the "web site" settings there's a new option which allows to automatically redirect Youtube shorts to their "standard" youtube video page. This is useful if you prefer the full featured video player of "normal" youtube videos over the primitive video player of the "shorts".
- There are now complications available for the Apple Watch, so it's possible to lanuch the Watch App from within a watch face
- The default keyboard shortcut for „Close Tab“ has changed from Cmd-W to Cmd-Shift-W to avoid conflicts with a new shortcut of the Stage Manager on iPads. (Important: The shortcut will change automatically only if the user has not yet done any changes for the shortcuts).
- Bugfix: Fixes an issue with the auto-update feature of AdBlock Plus filters
- Bugfix: Saving web sites on WebDAV servers did not always work
- Bugfix: Searches done in private tabs will no longer added to the search history.
Version 10.6.602 August 2022- There's a new button available for the toolbar to toggle the display of pictures on web sites. This can be handy if you often switch off or on pictures to speed up site loading because of slow internet connections.
- In the "web site" settings it's now possible to switch on/off the detection of XML as RSS (in case XML-based web sites are falsly treated as RSS)
- When sharing web pages in reader mode the whole content is now shared by default
- For CSS-based filters iCab Mobile is now supporting the special rules „:has-text()“ und „:upwards()“ from the „uBlock“ ad blocker
- It's now possible to manually reorder pinned Tabs within the Tabs window
- Fixes an issue with overlapping text in reader mode if the font size was increased by a very large factor
- Fixes a crash when long-pressing the reload button.
Version 10.6.121 April 2022- Adds the missing texts in the Japanese localization
- Fixes an issue when using the "export/import via WLAN" feature to transfer downloads with non-ASCII file names (like Japanese) to a computer or other devices.
- Fixes a crash when logging out of the Guest account.
Version 10.5.124 February 2022Bugfix for users who still use iOS 14.5 - 14.8.x
A serious bug in these iOS releases can cause a crash after launching the App when iCab tries to enable or disable a certain iOS feature which is supposed to be available since iOS 14.5. But unfortunately this is crashing under iOS iOS 14.5 - 14.8.1. Therefore the new version is now using this feature since iOS 15 only, where Apple has fixed this bug and it does no longer crash.
You do not need this update when still using iOS 14.4 or older or when already using iOS 15 or newer..
Version 10.410 December 2021- There's a new option in the user interface settings which allows to customize the menu of the App icon on the homescreen. The iOS allows up to 4 custom menu items in the menu.
- There's a new option in the user interface settings which alows to customize the additional keys that are attached to the keyboard of the address field to help entering URLs. It's now possible to add your own keys, edit or remove existing ones.
- There's a new option available in the "Services > E-Mail/SMS" settings which when enabled will pass all E-Mail links (when shared or tapped on) to the default E-Mail app of the iOS, instead of sending the E-Mail directly from within iCab Mobile.
- There's a new option for the contextual menu available, which allows to search for other occurences in the web of the selected image on a web site. This feature uses the google reverse image search.
- The suggestions which are listed while editing text in the address field will now include matching Tabs as well, if enabled in the settings. Selecting such a suggestion will activate this tab
- The History shows the time of the last visit of a web site now.
- The contextual menu of a tab allows to shar the tab now
- In the Design settings it's now possible to configure that inactive tabs will be always darker then active ones in dark mode. This will make the toolbars slightly brighter in dark mode, so make sure that the contract between active and inactive tabs is large enough. Otherwise the inactive tabs can become brighter than the active tab, in order to create a contrast that is large enough
- The import feature of the Downloads Manager supports to import multiple files at once
- Since iOS 15 it is possible support downloads which a web site provides via "blob" URLs.
- Bugfix for iOS 15: A few shortcuts for Bluetooth keyboards didn't work anymore under iOS 15, this is fixed again.
- Improved auto-fill feature for forms in iOS 14 and newer
- Fixes an issue with the Document Provider extension for the Files App under iOS 15.
Version 10.2.313 August 2021- For Bluetooth keyboards it is now possible to define shortcuts to zoom web sites
- Bugfix: in certain cases the site-specific browser IDs were not evaluated
- Bugfix: Under older iOS releases the Quickstarter did no longer open the links.
Version 10.2.120 May 2021- There's a new option in the "Web site" settings to automatically open the original web page instead of the "Google AMP" version when using the google search engine on the iPhone.
- In the user interface settings you can now enable an additional prompt when deleting items (like bookmarks). So in case you have the tendency to accidentally delete things, you can have an additional prompt.
- In the "personal data" settings there's now a new option to change the sort criteria (title or URL) for the URL suggestions when typing a new address or search term into the address bar
- Tabs of other devices (synced via iCloud) can be now deleted from within the tabs overview window as well (only the entry in the iCloud will be deleted, not the Tabs itself on the other device). This can be useful if you still have an entry listed of devices which you don't have anymore.
- Removed the "Evernote" module because Evernote itself has abandonned this API. It is recommended to use the sharing feature of the iOS and the native Evernote App instead.
- The text-to-speech feature of the reader mode starts reading from the visible area instead always from the very beginning
- Bugfix: Fixes an issue with the Google translation module
- Bugfix: In the overview window for the Tabs the pinned tabs were not marked.
- Bugfix: solves an issue with filter lists where filters include the quote character
- Bugfix: solves an issue with the bookmarks export if the bookmarks include "smart folders". Other browsers (which do not support the "smart folder" feature) could fail in importing the bookmarks from iCab Mobile. This should no longer happen now..
Version 10.210 March 2021- There's a new feature available: „Pinned Tabs“.
This feature allows to lock („pin") Tabs so that they can’t be closed accidentally anymore. Also, as long as Tabs are pinned all links to other domains will automatically open in new Tabs, so that the pinned Tab will stay on the same web page all the time. You can pin/unpin a Tab either via action menu, via contextual menu (long-press) of the Tab button within the Tabs toolbar itself or via toolbar icon. This feature can be configured in the Tabs settings. Pinned Tabs can be „sorted“,so they will be moved to the very left of the tabs toolbar, they can be reduced in size (the „compact“ option) so they need less space, and they can be marked with a color, so they stand out on the tabs toolbar. Also pinned Tabs do not have a close button, you need to unpin the tab first to make it closable again.
- Fixes an issue with the google translation module
- Includes a workaround for an issue within iOS 14 which could have the result that not all filters of very large filter lists were applied
- In the text selection menu the item "select All" will be available now
- Right-clicking with mouse or trackpad will now open the contextual menu for the web site
- Updated localization for "Simplified Chinese".
Version 10.1.117 November 2020- Bugfix: Solves an issue with the domain exceptions of the filters
- Bugfix: fixes an issue with the automatic update of AdBlock Plus filter lists which do not define certain meta data abiut the filters. Without this information iCab could not link the updated list tio the existing link and stored the update a new list. So with each automatic update a new copy was created, which resulted in performance issue after a while because of the many copies of the list. Now this problem will be detected and resolved.
- In the "Design" settings for the user interface it is now possible to optionally define the colors by their hexadecimal values as well.
Version 10.109 November 2020- The support for the popular filter lists from "Adblock Plus", "Easylist", "uBlock" and compatible was improved. Now, iCab Mobile also supports the fully automatic update of these filter lists in the background. By default iCab uses the recommended update interval defined by these filter lists, but you can nevertheless change the update interval yourself (this can be useful because even though the filter lists do change all the time, the changes which are relevant for you are usually not that big, so a longer update interval can save some network traffic without any disadvantages). The option to change the update interval can be found when opening the filter list in the filter settings. Here you'll also find a button to update the list immediatelly.
In the list of filter groups you can tap on the "+" at the top right to open several web sites (AdBlock Plus, Easylist, Filterlists) from where you get get and install such filter lists. These web sites contain special "Add" or "Subscribe" links, which should be used to directly install the filters.
Previous versions of iCab Mobile did already support these third-party filter lists, though without the "auto-update" feature. So if you have imported such filters before, you should import these filters again from from their web site, so that iCab can now get the information about the auto-update and then it will be able to update the filters in the future fully automatically.
- Bugfix: Solves an issue when importing AdBlock-Plus compatible filter lists
- New option "Desktop Fullscreen Mode" for videos added in the "Website" settings. Some web sites enable the fullscreen mode for videos in a different way on mobile and desktop browsers. With this option the "Desktop Fullscreen Mode" can be enabled in general, disabled in general and enabled only in "Desktop mode" (which means the browser uses a Browser ID of a desktop browser)..
Version 10.0.323 October 2020- In the new filter lists CSS filters now show not only the CSS selectors but also their URL
- Bugfix: On the iPad under iOS 14 renaming of files failed in the download manager when this was done from within the search results
- Bugfix: Saving PDFs or pictures did not save these directly but instead as web archive
- Bugfix: when leaving the App while a password box for a HTTP authentication request was open, the App had to be restarted in order to open other HTTP authentication password requests.
- Bugfix: importing filters from Cloud services manually did not work.
- Bugfix: The filter settings could not be opened from within the Action menu.