iCab

★★★☆☆

I was surprised to discover that iCab (“The Internet Taxi For Your Mac”) is still around! Way back when, it was an indie browser for macOS. These days the engine is WebKit, and it has a bunch of little usability tools, like pop-out windows that will show an outline of a page based on the headings, or a list of all the links on a page, etc.

It doesn’t support Chromium or Firefox extensions, but it has its own “modules” that can modify the page, or send it to a web application, or help you debug, or download the page as a PDF, etc. There are a few obsolete items in there like Google+ and StumbleUpon, which does make me wonder how current the rest are. I haven’t been able to get the save-to-Pocket module to work, for instance. But it does let you set up bookmarklets, which puts it ahead of NetSurf.

I’ve found that I like the idea of iCab better than I like actually using it. It’s not bad, it’s just OK. Then again, with so many other browsers trying to grab your attention and data, sometimes “just OK” is what you want!

Retro-computing enthusiasts, take note: Old versions for Macintosh System 7.5-9 and earlier versions of OSX are still available for download, though they’re no longer updated or supported.