All the web pages that are saved as Bookmark can be accessed from within the Bookmarks menu. Using the menu item Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks iCab will open a window where all the bookmarks are located and where you can create new bookmarks, delete bookmarks, organize the bookmarks within folders and subfolders, rename and sort bookmarks etc.
Normal bookmarks represent single web site. But there is also a special type of bookmark which is called Tab Group which can be used to save any number of web sites which are displayed as Tabs in a window. This can be useful to save a group of related web sites as a unit which can all be opened at the same time with a single mouse click as Tabs.
You can create folders in the bookmarks window, to group bookmarks by topic. You can also create folders within folders, so you can create a complex folder hierarchy. In the Bookmarks menu all the folders are displayed as submenus. To creating a folder click the Folder button in the toolbar of the bookmarks window or choose the menu item "Create new Folder" from the contextual menu. The new folder will be created just above the currently selected item in the window.
Double-clicking a folder in the bookmarks window will open this folder in a new window. This makes it easy if you want to move bookmarks from one folder into another, because you can have both folders in separate windows so you can drag and drop the bookmarks without the need to scroll.
To sort the bookmarks alphabetically, just click the column header buttons at the top of the bookmarks window. This will sort the items in the current folder. Subfolders won't be sorted, you can sort them by opening the folder in a new window first and click the column header in this window.
You can also use drag & drop to reorder bookmark items in the bookmarks window.
Each modification (deleting items, creating items sorting, reordering etc.) in the bookmarks window can be undone. Just select the menu item "Edit > Undo".
There are several ways to edit the data of a bookmark. You can select the bookmark you want to edit and then click the Information button in the toolbar of the window (or select the menu item Edit > Information). This will open a dialog box where you can edit all the data of the selected bookmark. But you can also edit the URL, title and description inline directly in the bookmarks list of the bookmarks window. To do this first select the bookmark, wait a short time and then click again on the title, URL or description which will then activate the inline editing feature.
Double-clicking a bookmark will open it in the browser window. Holding down the Cmd, Option and/or Shift keys while double-clicking a bookmark will open it in a new window or a new Tab in the background or foreground. The shortcuts that are currently used depend on the Tabs settings in the preferences dialog, so have a look at these settings (Preferences dialog > General > Tabs) to find out which shortcut has which meaning.
In the contextual menu of the bookmarks window there's a submenu "Show" where all the columns are listed that are visible in the bookmarks window (URL, last modified, last checked, etc.). Setting or removing the check marks for these menu items will also show or hide the column in the window. So you can easily hide all the columns you are not interested in.
To change the folder that should be used for the Favorites toolbar, you only need to select the folder in the bookmarks window and then click the "Set Favorites" button in the toolbar (or using the contextual menu). Then this folder will be used for the Favorites toolbar. The folder icon in the bookmarks window will also change to indicate which folder is currently used for the Favorites. In case you haven't selected a folder but a normal bookmark when you click on the "Set Favorites" button, iCab will select the folder where this bookmarks is located as Favorites button.
It's also possible to export bookmarks using the menu item "Bookmarks > Export". iCab will save the bookmarks in a file and will use the Netscape Bookmarks file format which is supported by most browsers when importing bookmarks. You can even export only a certain folder of bookmarks instead of exporting all bookmarks. To do this you need to open this folder in a new window and then select the Export menu item.
Checking the bookmarks can be done manually but also automatically. This can be configured individually for each bookmark. So you can have some bookmarks which will be never checked, some which will be checked only manually and some which will be checked automatically.
To start checking the bookmarks and to configure the checking you can do the following:
If you've selected more than one bookmark you can use the forward/back buttons in the window to go from one elected bookmarks to the others.
When using iCab on more than one computer you can use a WebDAV server to synchronize the bookmarks on all these Macs. If this feature is active iCab will save the bookmarks not only local on the hard disk of the computer (as usual) but also on the WebDAV server whenever the bookmarks are changed. When launching iCab, it will check if the bookmarks on the server are newer then the local copy of the bookmarks and will load the bookmarks from the server if this is the case. To configure the synchronization it's only necessary to enter the URL of the WebDAV server where iCab should save the bookmarks. This must be the complete URL to the (existing) folder on the server. For example "http://www.domain.tld:81/folder/" would tell iCab to save the Bookmarks in the folder "folder" on the Server "www.domain.tld". It's also possible to change the default file name which is used by iCab to save the bookmarks on the server, but the default filename should be usually fine.
The result of a check is displayed in the bookmarks icon. In the preferences you can tell iCab how long iCab should display these special markers in these icons.