Unofficial FAQ

Understanding the Web

• What are cookies?
• What is JavaScript?
• Page element titles: what does the explanation mark cursor mean?

Understanding and using iCab

• Blocking pop-up windows
• How to make iCab the default Web browser
• Understanding JavaScript settings
• Creating Web archives
• iCab plugins
  • Browser plugin list
• Java settings
• Using Internet search sites
• Prefetch

Tips and tricks

• Halting runaway JavaScript
• How to make iCab remember logins?
• Using multiple home pages
• Online banking with iCab
• Download Manager tips
• Safe resuming of downloads (for the technical folk)

Troubleshooting

• What to do if iCab unexpectedly quits
• When iCab starts, the menu bar and title bar disappear and you can't quit iCab or switch program
• How do you get out of a page that is showing endless message boxes?

• How to troubleshoot cookies
• Reading raw cookie data

iCab 3–specific issues

• Mac OS 8 and 9 issues

iCab 2–specific issues

• iCab 2 CSS problems
• JavaScript infinite loops (this is a general issue but it plagues iCab 2 due to DOM access problems)

More information

• iCab Yahoo group - Talk to a real human being!

Note that some of these topics should rather be part of the iCab documentation pages. Please refactor mercilessly.

To Do:

• How to force iCab to use my own text colours? everywhere?
• User stylesheets? (various)
• Speeding up iCab?
  • Which Mac browsers permit toggling images?
  • Browser speed
• List of iCab keyboard and mouse commands?

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