Comments on: Calling iCab Mobile from within Safari on the iPhone

By: Nuno Dionisio

Nuno Dionisio — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:25:45 +0000

@Alexander: Not even with this info?

Just one remark that may be important for you to track this issue: these 2 tabs only open if the app is closed. If the app was opened before, you minimize it, go to Safari and use the bookmark to open in iCab Mobile, then it works properly.

As a last try, I disabled Settings option ‘Apps open URL i.Tabs’ and now it works flawlessly, regardless of if the app is open or not, in either iPhone4 or iPad2 (both iOS 5.01).

With this info, I suppose you have more info to where the issue may reside in iCab Mobile, no?

By: Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:58:27 +0000

@Nuno Dionisio
It doesn’t happen on my devices at all (I can check from iOS 3.1 up to 5.1). And the way this works, I can only suspect a hick-up of the system itself.

By: Nuno Dionisio

Nuno Dionisio — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:45:16 +0000

@Alexander: I have a newly installed 5.01 iOS version in my iPad2 (no JB) and I have this 2 tab behavior. If you try it yourself, it doesn’t happen? This is quite annoying and it looks to me that it lies inside iCab Mobile… Can you check it please? Feel free to contact me in case I can help further.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:25:56 +0000

@Nuno Dionisio
There’s an option “App open URL in Tab” in the iCab Mobile settings within the “Settings” App from the home screen, where you can configure iCab wether other Apps which try to open a URL in iCab will open them in a new Tab (this option is ON) or if they open them just in the active Tab (this option is OFF). This way you can control if there will be a new Tab or not.

The problem with the two tabs that open with the same page is still unsolved. Until now I had reports about this problem only from users with “Jailbroken” devices, so I suspected that this might be an issue with some “Cydia” extension or hack that was installed on these devices. This looks like iCab gets two requests form the iOS to open this URL. So the problem most likely lies outside of iCab Mobile.

By: Nuno Dionisio

Nuno Dionisio — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:29:41 +0000

I tried this trick and it seems to work fine, but with a small glitch, which I think it could be fixed.

If I have no last site open (closed iCab Mobile with a blank tab only), when in Safari I click the above mentioned bookmark to open the page in iCab Mobile, it simply opens a blank tab and 2 new tabs with the link that came from Safari.

Am I missing some setting or this doesn’t work 100%?

Thanks in advance

By: Alan Westwood

Alan Westwood — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:26:35 +0000

This is a great little trick – it works just fine, and thanks for posting it. All I need now is a way of uploading a tcx file into Endomondo (it almost works with iCab with a file in the download folder selected, but it fails at the last point – the selected file never finishes loading) and I can throw away my old PC

Thanks again (also for iCab mobile which is great).

Cheers, Alan.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 31 May 2011 10:13:47 +0000

@Adam
The code definitely works fine. Please check the bookmarklet for typos. What exactly are you doing with this bookmarklet and what exactly happens? Some more details would be nice…

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 31 May 2011 08:12:05 +0000

The JavaScript doesn’t work for me either, what am I doing wrong?

By: g

Fri, 20 May 2011 14:11:38 +0000

If you are Jailbroken you should be using Browser Changer from Cydia as this will make iCab your default browser and never default to Safari

By: Alexander

Alexander — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:58:42 +0000

@Gilles Guillemin
No, this is most likely not possible. First of all, a web page is only able to close windows, which the page has opened itself with JavaScript before. So you can’t close any windows (or Tabs) which were opened by the User with Javascript code (and a bookmarklet is javascript code).

By: Gilles Guillemin

Gilles Guillemin — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 07:33:06 +0000

Hi Alexander,

I’ve been using iCab Mobile for several months and it is by far the best browser available iPad, hands down. And it gets better and better after each iteration so great job.
About this safari bookmarklet, is there a way to also close the window in safari before jumping to iCab? (otherwise there’s still the pain to remove the clutter in Safari afterwards)

By: Serg

Serg — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:11:08 +0000

Пишу по русски, но ….. Может быть все таки и ответите.
Недавно скачал модуль закачки видео прямо из iCab Mobile.
Очень нужный модуль. И вот он исчез.
Где??? Где его взять?????
Перевел это в английский переводчиком!!?
I write in Russian, but ….. Maybe all the same and respond.
Recently downloaded Module upload videos directly from iCab Mobile.
Very appropriate module. And then he disappeared.
Where?? Where can I get it ?????

By: Serg

Serg — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:05:55 +0000

Огромное спасибо!!!!!
Этого перехода из safari в iCab Mobile так не хватало.
Спасибо !!!!!!!

By: Alexander

Alexander — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:40:21 +0000

@Oliver Bose
Which two JavaScripts do you mean? There’s only one Bookmarklet in the blog post, and this should work fine.

By: Oliver Bose

Oliver Bose — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:34:19 +0000

Hi Alexander,

both JAVA-scripts doesn’t work for me.

Greetings,

Olli