Neu in iCab Mobile V11.0.5

• New options in the “Privacy” settings allow private data to be deleted automatically when the last tab is closed if private mode is active, and also when switching between tab groups.
• The contextual menu of the favorites bar on the iPad now also contains an option to edit the selected bookmark
• When importing a bookmarks file, any file name is now accepted, as well as other text encodings
• Improved handling of invalid/untrusted certificates
• The “Close tab” button for the browser toolbars can now also be long-pressed to open the context menu for tabs (which was previously only available in the tabs toolbar and in the tabs window).
• The “New tab” button for the browser toolbars can now be long-pressed to offer a choice between normal and private tabs, just like the “+” button on the tabs toolbar.
• When the icons in the favorites bar (iPad) are switched off, folders are now marked with a small rectangle
• New option for automatic full-screen mode: When scrolling, you can now also switch between normal mode and full-screen mode with toolbar icons
• If you open several windows/instances on the iPad (Stage Manager, Splitview), each window is now marked with the profile name logged in there. On the Mac (Apple Silicon), the open tabs are also listed for each window in the window list to make it easy to differentiate between all the windows
• Bugfix: The Shake gesture was not always evaluated
• Bugfix: Fixes a crash when deleting all bookmarks in a folder at once
• Bugfix: The option to duplicate a tab created two new tabs instead of just one
• Bugfix: When searching via the quickstarter, the search result may have been overwritten by a blank page if the app was configured to open search results in a new tab.
• Bugfix: If a search engine which was already selected as the default search engine was selected again in the list of search engines in the address/search field to make it the default, the status “Default search engine” was removed
• Some other minor bug fixes

New in iCab Mobile V11.0.4

• In the contextual menu of a Tab (Tabs toolbar, Tabs window) there's a new option which allows to add the Tab into another Tab Group or to create a new Group with the Tab
• The Tabs window marks the active Tab in another color now, so it is easier to deetc in dark mode.
• For the suggestions of the address field there's now also an option "unsorted" available in the settings, so the sugestions do not need to be always sorted by title or URL
• HEIF/HEIC files will be now recognized as image files.
• The sort options for downloads does now include an option to move all forlders to the very top when sorting
• The „x-callback-url“ protocol now respects the setting to open links from other Apps in new Tabs, in case the information whether to open the link in a new tab or not is not provided through this protocol
• A Bookmarks.html file within the downloads can now be imported into the bookmarks
• On Web sites which provide a filename for a download in an invalid format, the filename that was used by iCab for the download did not always meet the expectations (even if it was technically correct).
• Bugfix: The "URL Shortener" module did not copy the short URL to the clipboard
• Bugfix: Saving a PDF that is currently displayed could fail, in case the PDF was protected by a login
• Bugfix: Old versions of iOS sometimes opened the contextual menu to the top, even though there was much more space available to the bottom, resulting in a very small menu that could not show all the menu items at once
• Bugfix: In case multiple profiles were opened at the same time on the iPad (Stage Manager, Split Screen) and these profiles were configured to show the User Interface in different languages, all profiles could nevertheless show up all in the same language.
• Bugfix: The very first time the dark mode for web sites was enabled for a site, the mode for the dark mode was not saved correctly.

New in iCab Mobile V11.0.3

• The "Hide page elements" feature will now make it easier to select the element which should be hidden.
• Fixes an issue with special characters in file names when creating or extracting ZIP archives
• Fixes an issue with downloads when deleting a user profile
• Bugfix: After logging out from a profile and logging in again, the App did not ask for authorization if a timeout for re-authentication was set but was not yet past.
• Bugfix: solves an issue with uppercase/lowercase letters when exporting the bookmarks

New in iCab Mobile V11.0.2

• The sharesheet is now also offered for images and videos in the context menu
• When searching via the quick starter, the first search engine is used if none is tapped.
• There is a new option in the “Search” settings to open all searches via Address/Search bar or the Quickstarter in new tabs.
• Long pressing a folder in the favorites bar now allows you to open several bookmarks of the folder at once
• If you open the context menu for videos, the download entry is displayed even if no "Download" entry has been configured for the context menu
• It is now possible to open links in new tabs using multi-touch gestures (e.g. by tapping with 2 fingers). Corresponding options are now available when defining the multi-touch gestures
• Multi-touch gestures can also be used to switch the scrollbars on/off and change sides
• There are new options available for the text selection menu to select the current text block or all the text and automatically copy it into the clipboard
• If you open the bookmarks in the background via the context menu, the bookmark window now remains open so that you can open additional bookmarks more easily
• For manual full screen mode, there is special icon available again which allows to quickly hide or show all other icons.
• On the pad, there is a new option to completely hide the status bar for the manual full-screen mode
• The app now also creates backups for the quick starter every time it changes
• If the address field is activated, the history suggestions can now be deleted directly
• If the address field is activated, you can open bookmark suggestions directly in new tabs by long-pressing these entries
• A native Italian localization has been added (thanks to Stefano Almico)
• A native Spanish localization has been added (thanks to Manuel Montero Barro)
• You can now also add an “Open in app” option to the context menu, which can forward a link or video to known apps (Goodreader and VLC are currently supported)
• The context menu opens faster now

• The tabs from the active tab group could not be closed via the tabs window
• The option to automatically close tabs when leaving the App in private mode did not always work
• The option “Delezte Cache, cookies, web storage and history” from the action menu did not delete the history.
• The loading bar was barely visible in dark mode.
• The “Accept & Keep” option of the cookie filter did not always work
• The import of modules from external servers did not work
• Under MacOS, no icons/colors can be displayed in the text selection menu, which is why the text highlighter colors were not visible
• The quick starter did not remember the “compact/group” status
• Downloads could not always access cookies and thus could not always load files protected by login.
• The automatic detection of downloads did not always work if the respective file could also be displayed
• When transferring filter lists with autoupdate feature (Adblock Plus, uBlock, Easylist) from the old relase to the new one, the lists were saved twice. The duplicates are now removed again
• Drag & drop of downloads into other apps only copied the URL, not the file itself
• Due to a bug in the iOS web engine, tabs could lose their content under rare circumstances, this should no longer happen now
• The synchronization of bookmarks to the Apple Watch app is now more reliable
• Various other minor bug fixes

New in iCab Mobile V11.0.1

Affected users should proceed as follows: First, please open the bookmarks window and switch to the bookmarks (if other data such as homepage, history, etc. are displayed in the window, the bookmarks may not be visible immediately). In the bookmarks, tap on the “+” at the top and then on “Restore backup”. You will now see a list of available backups (with date), the backup from iCab Mobile 10 is specially marked with the addition “(V10)”. If you select this V10 backup, the lost bookmarks will be restored from the backup.

Other changes:

• Opeing the download window is much faster now, of many hundreds or thousands of files are located within the downloads window
• Fixes a rare crash during access verification by FaceID/TouchID
• The calculator module did not work
• The ShareSheet extension “Open in iCab Mobile” did not respect the option to open links from other apps in new tabs
• A few smaller bugfixes and improvements

New in iCab Mobile V11.0

The app continues to offer the familiar features, some of which have been restructured and made clearer, and it has been greatly improved and expanded in many areas.

App

• The app supports any number of independent user profiles (e.g. for use by multiple users, separation of professional and private use, etc.).
• Start the app on the iPad as often as you like at the same time (Split-Screen, Slide-Over, Stage-Manager).
• You can log in to each app instance with a different user profile (since iOS 17 this also works simultaneously)

User Interface

• Redesigned, clearer and simpler settings window
• Improved configuration of the menus (context menu, action menu, FavIcon menu, Text Selection menu). Subfolders and dividers help to make the menus easier to use.
• Browser toolbars can be placed at the top, bottom or on both sides, can be hidden/shown when scrolling if desired, icon colors/style/sizes can be configured
• Browser toolbars can be configured separately for large and small windows on the iPad (important for Split-Screen, Slide-Over, Stage Manager)
• Context-based additional keys for the standard keyboard help with text input
• Activate a permanently accessible scrollbar to make navigation or longer web pages much easier.

Websites

• Control what a website is allowed to do
• Control access to sensors, camera, microphone on a site-specific basis
• Manipulate web pages via self-defined StyleSheets and JavaScript code (for Pro users)
• Manipulate the addresses of the websites to be opened, e.g. to remove tracking parameters, redirect to certain page variants, etc. (for Pro users)
• A text highlighter feature allows you to permanently mark text on web pages with colors.
• Unwanted elements on websites can be hidden
• Auto-click buttons for example to get rid of cookie banners
• Easily control the text size on web sites

Tabs

• Organize and save tabs in groups, easily switch between tab groups.
• Tabs can be pinned (protected)
• Use private Tabs for improved privacy

Network

• Proxies are supported
• Extensive insight into the data stored by websites (cookies, web storage, cache), targeted deletion of data
• Support for 'Global Privacy Control', 'Do No Track' and the Referrer information

Filter

• Easy installation of filters to block advertising, tracking and much more.
• Supports popular filter lists (AdBlock Plus, Easylist, uBlock etc), hosts files, and also your own self-defined filters
• Exception filters allow you to exclude websites from the standard filters or to block websites completely

Widgets

• Quick selection of important features directly from the home screen
• Selection of bookmarks, favorites from the home screen
• Display websites on the home screen