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madmann
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on: May 29, 2007, 14:51
I am still having problems with icab I get the infinite loop error a lot. is this normal? i can load system7today noproblem but that is about it. i tried to spam.com mentioned in another thread and it crashed with the inf. loop error. I have yet to find a web site that makes icab happy. michael |
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wove
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1024 MB Posts: 1363
Reply #1 on: May 29, 2007, 16:28
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It is rare that iCab is ever happy. They have a link somewhere that shows sites that will make iCab happy. I have mixed luck with iCab, Sometimes it runs well and I can spend an evening reading through sites, while other evenings it seems hard to just get it to run. It operation strikes me as very erratic as well. At times it seems to be adequately fast while other times it seems like swimming in molasses. I have always had a soft spot for iCab. It is a very small company. It makes enormous efforts to support a wide variety of Mac OSes. It has also managed to survive for years. On the other had iCab has never seemed very elegant. Its basic configuration methods seem scattered and confusing. And its basic operation seems downright quirky. iCab stores everything it needs in its folder, which will be where ever you have placed it when you install. This makes it easy to simply trash the folder and start from a fresh copy, if you have gotten so far from the defaults that you are unable to find your way back. For me browsers are much like text editors; you need one, but by and large it makes little difference which one you choose. Just personally I find no browser very compelling in either 7.6.1 or in OS X. bill
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #2 on: May 29, 2007, 19:06
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The problem with iCab is it's effort to maintain their own proprietary rendering engine, which is just aweful and buggy (and no longer updated - iCab dropped System 7 support a long time ago). Overall iCab feels, runs, and responds like an unfinished product. This is why I stick to Netscape 4.8. Netscape 4.8 (with CSS turned off) is the fastest, most stable browser for System 7.
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wall
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256 MB Posts: 343
Reply #3 on: May 29, 2007, 19:24
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I don't know why you are having problems with iCab. I use the 2.9.9a in 7.6.1 and the 3.03 (the latest one) in 9.1 without any problems. The 3.0 was slower than these two and I didn't like it. iCabs site have a good downloadable help, which you can install (separately) & open in a browser, but it's in german only. Finding filters, help etc from the iCab site could take time, as I found it to be illogical for me. But it's all there. bills advice of trashing the iCab file and start over when having trouble is a good one and as he said; everything's in a one folder.
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