The following is a list of
web browserA web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...
s.
In order of release:
- WorldWideWeb
WorldWideWeb was the world's first web browser and WYSIWYG HTML editor. It was introduced on February 26, 1991, by British scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and ran on the NeXTSTEP platform...
, February 26, 1991
- Mosaic
Mosaic is the web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web. It was also a client for earlier protocols such as FTP, Usenet, and Gopher. Its clean, easily understood user interface, reliability, Windows port and simple installation all contributed to making it the application that...
, April 22, 1993
- Netscape Navigator
Netscape Navigator and Netscape are the names for the proprietary web browser popular in the 1990s, and the flagship product of the Netscape Communications Corporation, and the dominant web browser in terms of usage share. Yet by 2002 its users had almost disappeared...
and Netscape CommunicatorNetscape Communicator is an Internet suite that was produced by Netscape Communications Corporation. Initially released in June 1997, Netscape Communicator 4.0 was the successor to Netscape Navigator 3.x and included more groupware features intended to appeal to enterprises.- Editions :Netscape...
, October 13, 1994
- Internet Explorer 1
Internet Explorer 1.0 was a web browser debuted from Microsoft on August 16, 1995. It was a reworked version of Spyglass Mosaic which Microsoft had licensed, like many other companies initiating browser development, from Spyglass Inc. It came with Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 and OEM release of...
, August 16, 1995
- Opera
Opera is a web browser and internet suite developed by the Opera Software company. The browser handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying websites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, IRC online chatting, downloading files via BitTorrent, and reading web feeds...
, 1996, see History of the Opera Internet suite
- Mozilla Navigator
The Mozilla Application Suite is a cross-platform integrated Internet suite. Its development was initiated by Netscape Communications Corporation, before their acquisition by AOL. It is based on the source code of Netscape Communicator...
, June 5, 2002
- Safari
Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. First released as a public beta on 7 January 2003 on the company's Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther". Apple has also made Safari the native browser for the iPhone OS...
, January 7, 2003
- Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. Firefox has 23.75% of the recorded usage share of web browsers , making it the second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide after Microsoft's...
, November 9, 2004
- Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a web browser released by Google which uses the WebKit layout engine and application framework. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user...
, September 2, 2008
- Trident
Trident is the name of the layout engine for the Microsoft Windows version of Internet Explorer. It was first introduced with the release of Internet Explorer version 4.0 in October 1997; it has been steadily upgraded and remains in use today...
was developed by MicrosoftMicrosoft Corporation is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices...
for use in the WindowsMicrosoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces...
version of their web browser, Internet Explorer 4Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 is a graphical web browser released in September 1997 by Microsoft, primarily for Microsoft Windows, but also with versions available for Apple Mac OS, Solaris, and HP-UX and marketed as "The Web the Way You Want It".It was one of the main participants of the first...
, and included up to Internet Explorer 8Windows Internet Explorer 8 is the latest web browser developed by Microsoft in the long running Internet Explorer browser series. The browser was released on March 19, 2009 for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Both 32-bit and 64-bit builds are available...
.
- Tasman
Tasman is the name of a layout engine developed by Microsoft, introduced with the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer 5, a new feature in the development of Internet Explorer for Mac . Tasman was an attempt to improve support for web standards, as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium...
was developed by Microsoft for use in Internet Explorer 5Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 is a graphical web browser released in March 1999 by Microsoft, primarily for Microsoft Windows, but initially with versions available for Apple Macintosh, Sun Solaris, and HP-UX. It was one of the main participants of the first Browser war...
for Macintosh.
- Gecko
Gecko is a layout engine currently developed by Mozilla Corporation, known as the layout engine of the Firefox web browser, Mozilla Application Suite, Nvu, Mozilla Thunderbird and many more...
is developed by the Mozilla FoundationThe Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the open source Mozilla project. The organization sets the policies that govern development, operate key infrastructure and control trademarks and other intellectual property...
.
- KHTML
KHTML is the HTML layout engine developed by the KDE project. It is the engine used by the Konqueror web browser. A forked version of KHTML called WebKit is used by several web browsers, among them Safari and Google Chrome...
is developed by the KDEKDE is a free software project based around its flagship product, a desktop environment mainly for Unix-like systems. The goal of the project is to provide basic desktop functions and applications for daily needs as well as tools and documentation for developers to write stand-alone applications...
project.
- WebKit
WebKit is a layout engine designed to allow web browsers to render web pages. The WebKit engine provides a set of classes to display web content in windows, and implements browser features such as following links when clicked by the user, managing a back-forward list, and managing a history of...
is an open-source fork of KHTML by Apple Inc..
- Presto
Presto is a layout engine for the Opera web browser developed by Opera Software. After several public betas and technical previews, it was released on January 28, 2003 in Opera 7.0 for Windows; it is the browser's current layout engine. Presto is dynamic: the page or parts of it can be re-rendered...
is developed by Opera SoftwareOpera Software is a Norwegian corporation, primarily known for its Opera family of web browsers. Opera Software is also involved in promoting Web standards through participation in the W3C. The company has its headquarters in Oslo, Norway, and is listed on Oslo Stock Exchange...
.
Other software publishers have extended the functionality of Microsoft's Trident engine.
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The following is a list of
web browserA web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...
s.
Notable browsers
In order of release:
- WorldWideWeb
WorldWideWeb was the world's first web browser and WYSIWYG HTML editor. It was introduced on February 26, 1991, by British scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and ran on the NeXTSTEP platform...
, February 26, 1991
- Mosaic
Mosaic is the web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web. It was also a client for earlier protocols such as FTP, Usenet, and Gopher. Its clean, easily understood user interface, reliability, Windows port and simple installation all contributed to making it the application that...
, April 22, 1993
- Netscape Navigator
Netscape Navigator and Netscape are the names for the proprietary web browser popular in the 1990s, and the flagship product of the Netscape Communications Corporation, and the dominant web browser in terms of usage share. Yet by 2002 its users had almost disappeared...
and Netscape CommunicatorNetscape Communicator is an Internet suite that was produced by Netscape Communications Corporation. Initially released in June 1997, Netscape Communicator 4.0 was the successor to Netscape Navigator 3.x and included more groupware features intended to appeal to enterprises.- Editions :Netscape...
, October 13, 1994
- Internet Explorer 1
Internet Explorer 1.0 was a web browser debuted from Microsoft on August 16, 1995. It was a reworked version of Spyglass Mosaic which Microsoft had licensed, like many other companies initiating browser development, from Spyglass Inc. It came with Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 and OEM release of...
, August 16, 1995
- Opera
Opera is a web browser and internet suite developed by the Opera Software company. The browser handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying websites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, IRC online chatting, downloading files via BitTorrent, and reading web feeds...
, 1996, see History of the Opera Internet suite
- Mozilla Navigator
The Mozilla Application Suite is a cross-platform integrated Internet suite. Its development was initiated by Netscape Communications Corporation, before their acquisition by AOL. It is based on the source code of Netscape Communicator...
, June 5, 2002
- Safari
Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. First released as a public beta on 7 January 2003 on the company's Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther". Apple has also made Safari the native browser for the iPhone OS...
, January 7, 2003
- Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. Firefox has 23.75% of the recorded usage share of web browsers , making it the second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide after Microsoft's...
, November 9, 2004
- Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a web browser released by Google which uses the WebKit layout engine and application framework. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user...
, September 2, 2008
Notable layout engines
- Trident
Trident is the name of the layout engine for the Microsoft Windows version of Internet Explorer. It was first introduced with the release of Internet Explorer version 4.0 in October 1997; it has been steadily upgraded and remains in use today...
was developed by MicrosoftMicrosoft Corporation is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices...
for use in the WindowsMicrosoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces...
version of their web browser, Internet Explorer 4Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 is a graphical web browser released in September 1997 by Microsoft, primarily for Microsoft Windows, but also with versions available for Apple Mac OS, Solaris, and HP-UX and marketed as "The Web the Way You Want It".It was one of the main participants of the first...
, and included up to Internet Explorer 8Windows Internet Explorer 8 is the latest web browser developed by Microsoft in the long running Internet Explorer browser series. The browser was released on March 19, 2009 for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Both 32-bit and 64-bit builds are available...
.
- Tasman
Tasman is the name of a layout engine developed by Microsoft, introduced with the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer 5, a new feature in the development of Internet Explorer for Mac . Tasman was an attempt to improve support for web standards, as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium...
was developed by Microsoft for use in Internet Explorer 5Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 is a graphical web browser released in March 1999 by Microsoft, primarily for Microsoft Windows, but initially with versions available for Apple Macintosh, Sun Solaris, and HP-UX. It was one of the main participants of the first Browser war...
for Macintosh.
- Gecko
Gecko is a layout engine currently developed by Mozilla Corporation, known as the layout engine of the Firefox web browser, Mozilla Application Suite, Nvu, Mozilla Thunderbird and many more...
is developed by the Mozilla FoundationThe Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the open source Mozilla project. The organization sets the policies that govern development, operate key infrastructure and control trademarks and other intellectual property...
.
- KHTML
KHTML is the HTML layout engine developed by the KDE project. It is the engine used by the Konqueror web browser. A forked version of KHTML called WebKit is used by several web browsers, among them Safari and Google Chrome...
is developed by the KDEKDE is a free software project based around its flagship product, a desktop environment mainly for Unix-like systems. The goal of the project is to provide basic desktop functions and applications for daily needs as well as tools and documentation for developers to write stand-alone applications...
project.
- WebKit
WebKit is a layout engine designed to allow web browsers to render web pages. The WebKit engine provides a set of classes to display web content in windows, and implements browser features such as following links when clicked by the user, managing a back-forward list, and managing a history of...
is an open-source fork of KHTML by Apple Inc..
- Presto
Presto is a layout engine for the Opera web browser developed by Opera Software. After several public betas and technical previews, it was released on January 28, 2003 in Opera 7.0 for Windows; it is the browser's current layout engine. Presto is dynamic: the page or parts of it can be re-rendered...
is developed by Opera SoftwareOpera Software is a Norwegian corporation, primarily known for its Opera family of web browsers. Opera Software is also involved in promoting Web standards through participation in the W3C. The company has its headquarters in Oslo, Norway, and is listed on Oslo Stock Exchange...
.
Trident-shellsAn Internet Explorer shell is computer software that uses the Trident rendering engine of Internet Explorer. Although the term Trident shell is probably more accurate for describing these applications, including Internet Explorer itself, the term Internet Explorer shell or IE shell is in common...
Other software publishers have extended the functionality of Microsoft's Trident engine. The following browsers are all based on the Trident rendering engine:
- AOL Explorer
AOL Explorer, previously known as AOL Browser, is a graphical web browser based on the Microsoft Trident layout engine and was released by AOL. In July 2005, AOL launched AOL Explorer as a free download and as an optional download with AIM version 5.9. AOL Explorer supports tabbed...
- Avant Browser
Avant Browser is a popular freeware web browser from a Chinese programmer named Anderson Che, which unites the Trident layout engine built into Windows with an interface intended to be more feature-rich, flexible and ergonomic than Microsoft's Internet Explorer . It runs on Windows 98 and above,...
- Bento Browser
Winamp is a proprietary media player written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is skinnable, multi-format freeware/shareware.Winamp was first released by Justin Frankel in 1997. Current Winamp development is credited to Ben Allison and Maksim Tyrtyshny...
(built into WinampWinamp is a proprietary media player written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is skinnable, multi-format freeware/shareware.Winamp was first released by Justin Frankel in 1997. Current Winamp development is credited to Ben Allison and Maksim Tyrtyshny...
)
- Enigma
The Enigma Browser was previously a shareware Internet Explorer shell but is now freeware. It uses Internet Explorer's Trident layout engine.It presently incorporates many features including:*Popup Killer*Skinned window frame*Form filler*Site group...
- GreenBrowser
GreenBrowser is an informal, free web browser based on Internet Explorer's core. GreenBrowser is claimed to be open source software, although this is inconsistent with it being based upon Internet Explorer code....
- Maxthon
Maxthon is a China-based freeware web browser for Windows. From its early MyIE2 roots, Maxthon has developed a growing user base, especially in China, and in 2006 it received commercial backing for Maxthon 2.0...
- MenuBox
MenuBox is a web browser developed by Cloanto Corporation. It is based on the Trident layout engine, to which it adds an extended document object model and event intercepts to achieve special functionality for use in contexts such as AutoRun projects, wrapping of web-based services, chromeless...
- MSN Explorer
MSN Explorer is a web browser, developed by Microsoft, that integrates MSN and Windows Live features such as Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger with a web browser. To make use of these services requires a Windows Live ID...
- NeoPlanet
NeoPlanet was a graphical web browser released in 1998 and was based on the Trident rendering engine . It was designed to be a customizable browser with content channels and search facilities, as well as email and download management...
- NetCaptor
NetCaptor was an Internet Explorer shell that was in development from 1997 to 2005. As an IE shell, it used the Trident layout engine of Internet Explorer in conjunction with additional programmed features to create an alternate browsing experience with a tab-based interface and an expanded...
(died)
- iRider
iRider is a commercial Internet Explorer shell.-Features:*A page map shows open pages as thumbnails in a hierarchical tree, providing a visual overview of the pages and sites one is working with...
- RealPlayer
RealPlayer is a closed source cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats....
- Runecats Explorer
Runecats Explorer is a web browser, popular for its design and theme. Runecats Explorer has many features, such as the "MiniWeb" which resembles a mini browser at the bottom of the main browser . This allows you to search anything on Google without adding a new tab or new window...
- Smart Bro
Smart Bro is a tabbed web browser that has been developed by Mind Vision Software. It resembles Internet Explorer, the web browser provided by Microsoft with its operating systems....
- Teega
Teega is a web browser that has been developed by OpenDoor Open-Source designs. It is built on the familiar Trident layout engine, which is used for Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The Mac OS X version is built on the WebKit engine.-History:...
- Tencent Traveler
- TheWorld Browser
TheWorld Browser is a browser shell based on Internet Explorer's Trident engine. It supports tabbed browsing, crash recovery and ad filtering and has a build-in download manager. The list of features is comparable to other Internet-Explorer-shells like e.g...
- UltraBrowser
UltraBrowser is a graphical web browser developed by UltraBrowser.com Inc, based upon the Trident layout engine, part of Internet Explorer since IE version 4. The program is lightweight and features an advanced GUI which features various links, channels and search facilities. The latest version was...
- Web visions
Web Visions Black Label is a Bulgarian created web-browser, created by Creative Lines Group. Although based on Internet Explorer, the company pared the program interface down, to make it run faster. The browser has two menus and seven buttons, instead of a row of menus. It is available in both...
- WebbIE
WebbIE is a freeware web browser designed for screen reader users. It re-presents web pages as text with a caret, allowing users to use their existing screen reader or assistive technology to read it, but is not self-voicing, unlike Home Page Reader.-History:WebbIE was developed as a student...
- Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is an American public corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, , that provides Internet services worldwide...
Browser (or partnership browsers eg. "AT&TAT&T Inc. is the largest provider of local, long distance telephone services in the United States, and also serves digital subscriber line Internet access. AT&T is the second largest provider of wireless service in the United States, with over 77 million wireless customers, and more than 150...
Yahoo! Browser"; "Verizon Yahoo! Browser"; "BTBT Group plc is the privatised former state telecommunications operator in the United Kingdom. It is the dominant fixed line telecommunications and broadband Internet provider in the UK, and also operates in more than 170 countries around the world...
Yahoo! Browser" etc.)
Gecko-based browsers
Current/maintained projects are in boldface.
- Mozilla Application Suite
The Mozilla Application Suite is a cross-platform integrated Internet suite. Its development was initiated by Netscape Communications Corporation, before their acquisition by AOL. It is based on the source code of Netscape Communicator...
(discontinued)
- Beonex Communicator
Beonex Communicator was a fork of the Mozilla Application Suite. It was created as an end-user product, because of the original statement of the Mozilla Organization that the Mozilla Application Suite was only for testing purposes and was not meant for end users...
(fork, based on Mozilla Application Suite) (discontinued)
- Netscape
Netscape 7 was a series of proprietary cross-platform Internet suites created by Netscape Communications Corporation and then in-house by AOL to continue the Netscape series after Netscape 6. There were three main editions released from the Netscape 7 series; being Netscape 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2...
(Netscape 6Netscape 6 was the name of Netscape Communications Corporation's proprietary cross-platform internet suite from versions 6.0-6.2.3. It superseded Netscape Communicator 4.8 and was replaced by the simply-named Netscape...
to 7, based on
Mozilla
) (discontinued)
SeaMonkeySeaMonkey is a free and open source cross-platform Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code...
(successor to Mozilla Application Suite)
GaleonGaleon is a web browser for GNOME based on Mozilla’s Gecko layout engine. Galeon’s self-declared mission was to deliver “the web and only the web.”...
, GNOMEGNOME is a desktop environment—a graphical user interface which runs on top of a computer operating system —composed entirely of free and open source software...
's old default browser (discontinued)
K-MeleonK-Meleon is a web browser for the Microsoft Windows platform. Based on the same Gecko layout engine as Mozilla Firefox, K-Meleon uses native Windows API to create the user interface , and as a result, is tightly integrated into the look and feel of the Windows desktop; this approach is similar to...
for WindowsMicrosoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces...
K-Ninja for Windows (based on K-Meleon; discontinued)
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. Firefox has 23.75% of the recorded usage share of web browsers , making it the second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide after Microsoft's...
(formerly Firebird
and Phoenix)
Netscape Browser 8Netscape Browser is the name of a proprietary Windows web browser published by AOL, but developed by Mercurial Communications. It is the eighth major release in name of the Netscape series of browsers, originally produced by the defunct Netscape Communications Corporation.While Netscape Browser's...
to Netscape Navigator 9Netscape Navigator 9 is the final release of the Netscape series of browsers produced by the Netscape Communications division of parent AOL, first announced on January 23, 2007...
(discontinued)
AT&T PogoAT&T Pogo was a Mozilla Firefox based web browser developed by AT&T and Vizible. A private beta was released to a limited number of users, but the project has been suspended or terminated altogether. As of 16 May 2009, the official Pogo homepage says it cannot be accessed.-Features:Pogo featured a...
(based on Firefox, discontinued)
MadfoxMadfox was a web browser based on Mozilla Firefox, developed by a Chinese developer Robin Lu . The project was an experimental project trying to enhance non-standard compatibility with Internet Explorer. As of October 12, 2005 the project stopped...
(based on Firefox 1.0.x) (discontinued)
SwiftfoxSwiftfox is a web browser based on Mozilla Firefox. It is available for Linux platforms and distributed by Jason Halme. Swiftfox is a set of builds of Firefox optimized for different Intel and AMD microprocessors. Swiftfox is freely downloadable with open source code and proprietary binaries....
(processor-optimised builds based on Firefox)
FlockFlock is a web browser built on Mozilla’s Firefox codebase that specializes in providing social networking and Web 2.0 facilities built into its user interface...
(based on Firefox)
XeroBank Browser (formerly Torpark), portable browser for anonymous browsing, originally based on Firefox
IceweaselIn 2006, a branding issue developed when Mike Connor, representing the Mozilla Corporation, requested that the Debian Project comply with Mozilla standards for use of the Thunderbird trademark when redistributing the Thunderbird software...
, DebianDebian is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open source software especially under the GNU General Public License and other open source licenses. The primary form, Debian GNU/Linux, which uses the Linux kernel and GNU OS tools, is a popular and...
's Firefox rebrand
SwiftweaselSwiftweasel is a build of Mozilla Firefox source code, which uses non-trademarked graphics and logos. It is optimized for several architectures, and is available for the Linux platform only....
(processor-optimised builds based on Iceweasel)
GNU IceCatGNU IceCat, formerly known as GNU IceWeasel, is a free and open source web browser distributed by the GNU Project. It is a fork of Mozilla Firefox...
, GNUGNU is a computer operating system composed entirely of free software. Its name is a recursive acronym for “GNU's not Unix!” This name was chosen because GNU's design is Unix-like, but differs from Unix by being free software and containing no Unix code...
's freeFree software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also...
forkIn software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct piece of software....
of FirefoxMozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. Firefox has 23.75% of the recorded usage share of web browsers , making it the second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide after Microsoft's...
lolifox, an anime centric browser. (based on Firefox 2.0.x) (discontinued)
- DocZilla
DocZilla is a graphical web browser based on the Mozilla Foundation's Gecko layout engine, capable of parsing and rendering SGML and XML.-History:The predecessor of DocZilla was an SGML browser application called Multidoc Pro...
, an SGMLThe Standard Generalized Markup Language is an ISO-standard technology for defining generalized markup languages for documents...
browser (discontinued)
- Camino
Camino is a free, open source, GUI-based Web browser based on Mozilla's Gecko layout engine and specifically designed for the Mac OS X operating system...
for Mac OS XMac OS X is a line of computer operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc., and since 2002 has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
(formerly ChimeraNote: This page is unrelated to the Chimera project started at Mozilla to demonstrate that the Gecko rendering engine could be embedded in a Mac OS X Cocoa application. Camino is the successor to this project....
)
- Conkeror
Conkeror is a free, keyboard-driven, Mozilla-based web browser . It borrows many key bindings from Emacs but has also taken much inspiration from vi and Vimperator. It was originally written by Shawn Betts, the primary author of ratpoison and Stumpwm. Formerly a Mozilla Firefox extension, it is now...
, character- and keyboard driven browser, possibly targeted at people with disabilities
- Minimo
Minimo was a project to create a version of the Mozilla web browser for small devices like PDAs and mobile phones.The project aimed to make it easier for developers to embed parts of Mozilla into systems with limited system resources...
(for mobile, discontinued)
- Fennec
Fennec is the name of the build of the Mozilla Firefox web browser for smaller non-PC devices, mobile phones and PDAs.While Fennec is based on Firefox, the user interface is completely redesigned and introduces a number of new paradigms. It uses touchscreen interaction methods in place of...
(for mobile)
- Skyfire (for mobile)
Gecko- and Trident-based browsers
Browsers that use both
TridentTrident is the name of the layout engine for the Microsoft Windows version of Internet Explorer. It was first introduced with the release of Internet Explorer version 4.0 in October 1997; it has been steadily upgraded and remains in use today...
and
GeckoGecko is a layout engine currently developed by Mozilla Corporation, known as the layout engine of the Firefox web browser, Mozilla Application Suite, Nvu, Mozilla Thunderbird and many more...
include:
- Lunascape
- Maxthon
Maxthon is a China-based freeware web browser for Windows. From its early MyIE2 roots, Maxthon has developed a growing user base, especially in China, and in 2006 it received commercial backing for Maxthon 2.0...
(formerly known as MyIE2)
- Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. Firefox has 23.75% of the recorded usage share of web browsers , making it the second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide after Microsoft's...
with the IE TabIE Tab is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox, Flock and SeaMonkey web browsers. IE Tab allows users to view pages using the Internet Explorer rendering engine from within Firefox. This may be useful for viewing pages that only work in Internet Explorer without exiting Firefox...
extension
- Netscape Browser
Netscape Browser is the name of a proprietary Windows web browser published by AOL, but developed by Mercurial Communications. It is the eighth major release in name of the Netscape series of browsers, originally produced by the defunct Netscape Communications Corporation.While Netscape Browser's...
8 (discontinued)
- Sleipnir
WebKit-based browsers
- ABrowse
ABrowse is a web browser for the Syllable operating system. Like Epiphany, Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari web browser, it uses the WebKit layout engine.-History:...
- Web Browser for Android (mobile device platform)
Android is a mobile operating system running on the Linux kernel. It was initially developed by Google and later the Open Handset Alliance. It allows developers to write managed code in the Java language, controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries.The unveiling of the Android...
- BOLT browser
The BOLT Browser is a web browser for mobile phones including feature phones and smartphones that can run Java ME applications. The BOLT Browser is offered free of charge to consumers and is produced by Bitstream Inc., the company that also produces the ThunderHawk for Mobile network operators and...
- Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a web browser released by Google which uses the WebKit layout engine and application framework. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user...
- Epiphany (web browser)
Epiphany is a web browser for the GNOME graphical computing desktop. It is also available for Mac OS X and is a descendant of Galeon.-Development:...
- iCab
iCab is a web browser for the Macintosh by Alexander Clauss, derived from Crystal Atari Browser for Atari TOS compatible computers. It is the most recently actively developed browser for Mac OS 9 and earlier, and the only one available for 68k-based Macintoshes that features tabbed browsing.The...
(version 4 uses WebKit; earlier versions used its own rendering engine)
- Iris Browser
Iris Browser is a web browser for Windows Mobile smartphones and personal digital assistants developed by the Torch Mobile company. The first version of Iris Browser was released in 2008. It is currently one of only two web browsers designed for portable devices which scores a 100/100 on the Acid3...
- Midori
is a web browser that aims to be lightweight and fast. It uses the WebKit rendering engine and the GTK+ 2 interface. Midori is part of the Xfce desktop environment's Goodies component.-Features:Official listed features:* Full integration with GTK+ 2...
- OmniWeb
OmniWeb is a proprietary Internet web browser developed and marketed by The Omni Group. It is available exclusively for Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system...
- rekonq
rekonq is a lightweight, QtWebKit-based web browser for the K Desktop Environment. It integrates into KDE, e.g. downloading files through KDE download system, sharing bookmarks with Konqueror, KIO support, etc....
- Safari
Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. First released as a public beta on 7 January 2003 on the company's Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther". Apple has also made Safari the native browser for the iPhone OS...
- Shiira
Shiira is an open source web browser for the Mac OS X operating system. According to its website, the goal of Shiira is "to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari". Its Japanese designers crafted Shiira to use WebKit for rendering and scripting...
- Sputnik for MorphOS
MorphOS is a computer operating system . It is a mixed proprietary and open source OS produced for the Pegasos PowerPC -processor-based computer, most models of PPC-accelerator-equipped Amiga computers, and a series of Freescale development boards that use the Genesi Firmware, including the EFIKA...
(based on S60The S60 Platform is a software platform for mobile phones that runs on Symbian OS. S60 is currently amongst the leading smartphone platforms in the world...
WebCoreWebKit is a layout engine designed to allow web browsers to render web pages. The WebKit engine provides a set of classes to display web content in windows, and implements browser features such as following links when clicked by the user, managing a back-forward list, and managing a history of...
)
- SRWare Iron
SRWare Iron, or simply Iron, is a free and open-source web browser implementation of Chromium which primarily aims to eliminate usage tracking and other privacy violating functionality that Google's version of Chrome includes. Iron is built on the same software base as Google Chrome.Iron includes...
- Stainless
Stainless is a WebKit-based web browser for Mac OS X by Mesa Dynamics. Stainless started out as a technology demo to rival the multiple-process architecture of Google Chrome, but then went into its own direction. Stainless' unique feature is "parallel sessions", allowing multiple logins to the same...
- Sunrise
Sunrise is an open-source web browser for Mac OS X based on the WebKit framework. The first version was released in April, 2007 and its source was subsequently released under a BSD license.-External links:*...
- TeaShark
Teashark is a mobile web browser for Java MIDP 2.0. It is a browsing client which works in cooperation with the Teashark servers which transcode websites and then sends the results to the mobile device, like Opera Mini...
- Web Browser for S60
Web Browser for S60 or the S60 OSS Browser, is a web browser for the S60 mobile phone platform developed by Nokia. The browser is based on a port of Apple Inc.’s open source WebCore and JavaScriptCore frameworks which form the WebKit rendering engine that Apple uses in its Safari Web browser...
(for mobile)
- WebOS
Palm webOS is a smartphone platform developed by Palm. It is based on Linux, with proprietary Palm components.The Palm Pre smartphone is the first device to launch with webOS, and both were introduced to the public at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on . The Palm Pre and webOS were...
, used in the Palm PreThe Palm Pre is a multimedia smartphone designed and marketed by Palm with a multi-touch screen and a sliding keyboard. The phone was launched on June 6, 2009, and is the first to use Palm's new Linux-based operating system, webOS...
mobile
Presto-based browsers
- Internet Channel (Web browser for the Wii console) (Opera powered)
- Nintendo DS Browser
The Nintendo DS Browser is a version of the Opera web browser for use on the Nintendo DS, developed by Opera Software and Nintendo. The Nintendo DS Browser comes in separate versions for the Nintendo DS and the Nintendo DS Lite; this is due to differing physical size requirements for the memory...
(Opera Powered)
- Opera
Opera is a web browser and internet suite developed by the Opera Software company. The browser handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying websites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, IRC online chatting, downloading files via BitTorrent, and reading web feeds...
Browsers for the Java platform
- Bitstream ThunderHawk
ThunderHawk or BOLT is a mobile web browser from Bitstream available for a full range of operating systems in high end and mass-market mobile phones and PDAs....
- BOLT Browser
The BOLT Browser is a web browser for mobile phones including feature phones and smartphones that can run Java ME applications. The BOLT Browser is offered free of charge to consumers and is produced by Bitstream Inc., the company that also produces the ThunderHawk for Mobile network operators and...
- HotJava
HotJava is a modular, extensible web browser from Sun Microsystems implemented in Java. It was the first browser to support Java applets, and was Sun's demonstration platform for the then new technology...
(discontinued)
- Lobo (formerly Warrior)
- Opera Mini
Opera Mini is a web browser designed primarily for mobile phones, but also for smartphones and personal digital assistants. It uses the Java ME platform and consequently requires that the mobile device be capable of running Java ME applications...
- uZard Web
uZard Web is a mobile web browser for mobile devices which are cellular phones, smartphones, PMP, navigator, settopbox and etc.
It currently supports Windows Mobile, Windows CE, Symbian, Blackberry and Linux. Also it supports BREW, Java and WIPI....
- X-Smiles
X-Smiles is an experimental XML Browser written in the Java programming language, which means that it can be used on a wide range of devices and platforms. It has a liberal open-source license, based on Apache license, which allows it to be used in other open source projects as well as commercial...
(experimental)
- Flying saucer
Flying Saucer is a pure Java library for rendering XML, XHTML, and CSS 2.1 content.It is intended for embedding web-based user interfaces into Java applications, but cannot be used as a general purpose web browser since it does not support HTML.-History:Flying Saucer was started in 2004 by Joshua...
, a Java library for rendering XMLXML is a set of rules for encoding documents electronically. It is defined in the produced by the W3C and several other related specifications; all are fee-free open standards....
, XHTMLExtensible Hypertext Markup Language, or XHTML, is a family of XML markup languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely used Hypertext Markup Language , the language in which web pages are written....
, and CSS 2.1Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language...
content.
Current
- Flock
Flock is a web browser built on Mozilla’s Firefox codebase that specializes in providing social networking and Web 2.0 facilities built into its user interface...
(To enhance social networking, blogging, photosharing, and RSSRSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format...
newsreading)
- Gollum browser
Gollum browser is a web application designed to browse Wikipedia in an easier way than using directly the web browser. Links external to Wikipedia are opened in the user's regular browser. Gollum is opened from a regular browser and makes a window that puts the Wikipedia search bar on the toolbar...
(Created specially for browsing Wikipedia)
- Image Xplorer
Image Xplorer is a specialty internet browser developed by Catzware Inc. for Windows XP and Windows Vista . It was first released on September 20, 2006 as freeware. Unlike most common internet browsers such as Safari and Firefox, Image Xplorer is designed to view, download, and print images . It...
(Designed for the viewing, downloading, and printing of images only)
- Kirix Strata
Kirix Strata is a specialty web browser designed for data analytics. Strata offers a browser's ability to view web pages, but also includes additional tools to perform data analysis and create reports based on structured data from local files, external relational databases and the Web.The browser...
(Designed for data analytics)
- Songbird
Songbird is a free and open source software audio player and web browser founded by Rob Lord and developed by Pioneers of the Inevitable , with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."Songbird employs Mozilla's XULRunner...
(browser with advanced audio streaming features and built in media player with library.)
- SpaceTime
SpaceTime is a patent-pending three dimensional graphical user interface that allows end users to search their content such as Google, Google Images, Yahoo!, YouTube, eBay, Amazon and RSS. The 3D Search system allows end users to visually search through the actual web pages, videos, products, RSS...
(Search the web in 3D)
- Wyzo
Radical Software Ltd is an internet startup company that is based in Jersey, UK. It is known for developing the FireTorrent extension and Wyzo web browser.-Radical Software Ltd Products:...
(A media browser that integrates BitTorrent like Opera's integrated BitTorrent)
- Zac Browser
ZAC Browser is a web browser designed specifically for children and teenagers with autism and autism spectrum disorders such as Asperger syndrome, pervasive developmental disorders and PDD-NOS....
(For children with autismAutism is a disorder of neural development that is characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old. Autism involves many parts of the brain; how this occurs is not well understood...
, and autism spectrumThe autism spectrum, also called autism spectrum disorders or autism spectrum conditions , with the word autistic sometimes replacing autism, is a spectrum of psychological conditions characterized by widespread abnormalities of social interactions and communication, as well as severely restricted...
disorders such as Asperger syndromeAsperger syndrome is an autism spectrum disorder, and people with it therefore show significant difficulties in social interaction, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. It differs from other autism spectrum disorders by its relative preservation of linguistic and...
, pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), and PDD-NOS.)
Discontinued
- AOL
America Online, LLC is an American global Internet services and media company operated by Time Warner. It is headquartered at 770 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City...
(For use with their proprietary intranetAn intranet is a private computer network that uses Internet Protocol technologies to securely share any part of an organization's information or operational systems within that organization. The term is used in contrast to internet, a network between organizations, and instead refers to a network...
)
- Ghostzilla
Ghostzilla was an open source web browser for Microsoft Windows based on the Gecko HTML renderer used by Mozilla. It runs the browser inside the window space of another application e.g. in Microsoft Outlook, where the page was then made to look like the content one would expect in an email, leaving...
(Blends into the GUIA graphical user interface is a type of user interface item that allows people to interact with programs in more ways than typing such as computers; hand-held devices such as MP3 Players, Portable Media Players or Gaming devices; household appliances and office equipment with images rather than...
to hide activity)
- Prodigy Classic (Executable only within the application)
Other browsers
- 3B (3D browser)
3B is a web browser which puts websites in a 3D environment. The browser uses virtual streets which have websites to the left and right; this attempts to recreate a window shopping experience. The browser contains stores, as well as several topic focused cities which feature both commercial and...
- Abaco
Abaco is a web browser for the Plan 9 operating system. It is a graphical web browser with support for inline images, tables and frames. It has a true multiple document interface inspired by acme's interface...
(for Plan 9 from Bell LabsPlan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system, primarily used for research. It was developed as the research successor to Unix by the Computing Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs between the mid-1980s and 2002...
)
- Amaya
Amaya is a free and open source WYSIWYG web authoring tool with browsing abilities, created by a structured editor project at Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique , a French national research institution, and later adopted by World Wide Web Consortium , the main...
- Arachne
Arachne is a full-screen Internet suite containing a graphical web browser, email client, and dialer. It primarily runs on DOS based operating systems, but includes builds for Linux as well...
(DOS)
- AWeb
AWeb is a web browser for the Amiga range of computers. Originally developed by Yvon Rozijn, AWeb was shipped with version 3.9 of AmigaOS, and is now open source....
(AmigaOSAmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. It was developed first by Commodore International, and initially introduced in 1985 with the Amiga 1000...
)
- Charon
Charon is a web browser for the Inferno operating system. It is a basic graphical browser with support for javascript, HTTPS, and basic support for FTP.- History:...
(for InfernoInferno is an operating system for creating and supporting distributed services.It was based on the experience of Plan 9 from Bell Labs, and the further research of Bell Labs into operating systems, languages, on-the-fly compilers, graphics, security, networking and portability.Inferno applications...
)
- Dillo
Dillo is a minimalistic web browser particularly intended for older or slower computers and embedded systems. It supports only plain HTML/XHTML and images over HTTP; scripting is ignored entirely. Dillo is available for Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Due to its small size, it is the browser of...
(Small, fast, free, minimalistic, and multi-platform)
- Gazelle (from Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research is a division of Microsoft created in 1991 for researching various computer science topics and issues. It currently employs Turing Award winners C.A.R...
, OS-like)
- Html Viewer 3 (hv3) (uses Tkhtml
Tkhtml is an open source layout engine written in C using the Tk widget toolkit. It is used primarily by the Html Viewer 3 minimalist web browser.-Acid2:...
as layout engine)
- IBrowse
IBrowse is an MUI-based web browser for the Amiga range of computers, and was a rewritten follow-on to Amiga Mosaic, one of the first web browsers for the Amiga Computer. IBrowse was originally developed for a company called Omnipresence, now defunct...
(AmigaOS)
- Mothra
Mothra is a web browser and Internet Gopher client for the Plan 9 operating system. It is a very basic graphical browser and does not support ftp, java, javascript or CSS.- History:Mothra was written by Tom Duff for the Second Edition of Plan 9...
(for Plan 9 from Bell LabsPlan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system, primarily used for research. It was developed as the research successor to Unix by the Computing Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs between the mid-1980s and 2002...
)
- NetPositive
NetPositive is the default browser that comes with the Be Operating System . It has partial support for JavaScript, but no Java or CSS support. NetPositive originally was the only web browser available for BeOS, but that is no longer the case. The last official version of NetPositive before the...
- NetSurf
NetSurf is an open source web browser which runs on a variety of platforms including RISC OS, AmigaOS and Unix-like systems. NetSurf has features that include tabbed browsing, text selection and PDF export....
(An open source web browser for RISC OSRISC OS is a computer operating system which was originally developed by Acorn Computers Ltd in Cambridge, England for their ARM based computers. It was first released in 1988 as RISC OS 2.00, having been derived from Acorn's Arthur operating system, with the addition of cooperative multitasking...
and GTK+ written in C)
- Oregano
Oregano is a commercial web browser for RISC OS computers. Oregano is a derivative of a browser developed by Oregan Networks Ltd under the name Oregan Media Browser for consumer electronics devices, games consoles and IP Set Top Boxes....
- Planetweb browser (discont. for Dreamcast)
- VMS Mosaic
VMS Mosaic is a GUI web browser for use on the OpenVMS operating system.-Description:It is the only direct descendent of NCSA Mosaic which is still being actively developed. VMS Mosaic is supported on VAX, Alpha, and Itanium systems...
- Voyager
Voyager is a web browser for the Amiga range of computers, developed by VaporWare.Voyager supports HTML 3.2 and some HTML 4, JavaScript, frames, SSL, Flash, and various other Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator features....
(AmigaOS)
Text-based
- Alynx
ALynx is an ASCII-Web browser for Amiga / which is a port of Lynx version 2.4-FM.The current stable version of ALynx is 1.29 and is still available for downloaded from the Amiga Aminet Repository.Version 1.31 is also available....
- edbrowse
Edbrowse is a free command-line program for Unix-like systems that combines features of text editors, web browsers, and email clients. It was originally intended for blind users....
(Line-mode browserA line-mode browser is a form of web browser that is operated from a single command line.-WWW - The Libwww Line Mode Browser:The first such browser was WWW - The Libwww Line Mode Browser, based on and shipped with the libwww library....
)
- ELinks
ELinks is a free text-based console web browser for Unix-like operating systems.It began in late 2001 as an Experimental fork by Petr Baudiš of the Links Web browser, hence the name...
(active version of LinksLinks is an open source text and graphic web browser with a pull-down menu system. It renders complex pages, has partial HTML 4.0 support , supports color and monochrome terminals and allows horizontal scrolling.It is oriented toward visual users who want to retain many typical elements of...
)
- Emacs/W3
Emacs/W3 is a web browser for the GNU Emacs text editor, written primarily by William M. Perry and entirely in GNU Emacs Lisp. Like lynx, links, elinks, and w3m, it is primarily text-based...
- Links
Links is an open source text and graphic web browser with a pull-down menu system. It renders complex pages, has partial HTML 4.0 support , supports color and monochrome terminals and allows horizontal scrolling.It is oriented toward visual users who want to retain many typical elements of...
(not currently active)
- Lynx
Lynx is a free open-source, text-only Web browser for use on cursor-addressable character cell terminals. Supported protocols are Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, WAIS, and NNTP.-Usage:...
- Net-Tamer
Net-Tamer is a shareware DOS PPP dial-up access program, which requires no TSR packet driver. It can web browse, get/send e-mail, get/send usenet messages, FTP upload/download a file, TELNET to another internet address, or check the time and date. It is a both robot and a navigator...
- w3m
w3m is a free software/open source text-based web browser. It has support for tables, frames, SSL connections, color and inline images on suitable terminals...
- WebbIE
WebbIE is a freeware web browser designed for screen reader users. It re-presents web pages as text with a caret, allowing users to use their existing screen reader or assistive technology to read it, but is not self-voicing, unlike Home Page Reader.-History:WebbIE was developed as a student...
See also
- Browser timeline
A time line of web browsers from the early 1990s to the present. Prior to browsers, many technologies and systems existed for information viewing and transmission...
- Comparison of web browsers
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of web browsers. Please see the individual products' articles for further information.-Historical web browsers:...
- List of layout engines
- List of web browsers for Unix and Unix-like operating systems
External links