List of web browsers
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The following is a list of web browsers that are notable.
Historical
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This is a table of personal computer web browsers by year of release of major version. The increased growth of the Internet in the 1990s and 2000s means that current browsers with small market shares have more total users than the entire market early on. For example, 90% market share in 1997 would be roughly 60 million users, but by the start of 2007 9% market share would equate to over 90 million users.[1]
Layout engines
[edit]- Gecko is developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
- Goanna is a fork of Gecko developed by Moonchild Productions.
- Servo is an experimental web browser layout engine being developed cooperatively by Mozilla and Samsung. In 2020 the engine's development was transferred to the Linux Foundation.
- Presto was developed by Opera Software for use in Opera. Development stopped as Opera transitioned to Blink.
- Trident is developed by Microsoft for use in the Windows versions of Internet Explorer 4 to Internet Explorer 11.
- Tasman was developed by Microsoft for use in Internet Explorer 5 for Macintosh.
- KHTML was developed by the KDE project but has since been discontinued.
- WebKit is a fork of KHTML by Apple Inc. used in Apple Safari, and formerly in Chromium and Google Chrome.
Graphical
[edit]Current and maintained projects are listed in boldface.
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Other software publishers have built browsers and other products around Microsoft's Trident engine. The following browsers are all based on that rendering engine:
- 360 Secure Browser
- AOL Explorer
- Deepnet Explorer
- GreenBrowser
- Internet Explorer
- MediaBrowser
- MSN Explorer
- NeoPlanet
- NetCaptor
- QQ Browser
Gecko-based
[edit]- Camino for Mac OS X (formerly Chimera)[19]
- Conkeror, (keyboard-driven browser)
- Galeon, (GNOME's old default browser)
- K-Meleon (Windows)
- K-MeleonCCF ME (for Windows based on K-Meleon core, mostly written in Lua)
- K-Ninja (for Windows based on K-Meleon)
- MicroB (for Maemo)
- Minimo (for mobile)
- Mozilla Firefox (formerly Firebird and Phoenix, developed by the Mozilla foundation)
- AT&T Pogo (based on Firefox)
- Cliqz (Firefox fork)
- CometBird (an optimized fork of Firefox allowing video downloads)
- Comodo IceDragon (Firefox-based web browser for Windows with privacy and performance enhancements developed by Comodo)
- Flock (was based on Firefox until version 2.6.1, and based on Chromium thereafter)
- Floorp (based on Firefox with increased customization options)
- Iceweasel (Debian's Firefox rebrand)
- Swiftweasel (processor-optimised builds based on Iceweasel)
- GNU IceCat (GNU's fork of Firefox)
- LibreWolf
- Netscape Browser 8 to Netscape Navigator 9 (discontinued)
- TenFourFox (Firefox port to PowerPC versions of Mac OS X)
- Timberwolf (AmigaOS' Firefox rebrand)
- Tor Browser (privacy enabled browser)
- Mullvad Browser (based on Tor Browser)
- Swiftfox (processor-optimised builds based on Firefox)
- Waterfox (Firefox-based web browser for Windows, macOS, and Linux)
- xB Browser (formerly XeroBank Browser and Torpark), portable browser for anonymous browsing, originally based on Firefox
- Firefox for Android (codenamed Fennec)
- Mozilla Application Suite
- Skyfire (for mobile)
- SlimBrowser
- Yahoo! Browser (or partnership browsers e.g. "AT&T Yahoo! Browser"; "Verizon Yahoo! Browser"; "BT Yahoo! Browser", etc.)
Goanna-based
[edit]- Basilisk – similar to Pale Moon, but with the interface of Firefox 29–56 and a few other differences
- K-Meleon – starting from version 77 (2019)
- Pale Moon – a fork of Firefox that maintains support for XUL/XPCOM extensions and retains the user interface of the Firefox 4–28 era
Gecko- and Trident-based
[edit]Browsers that use both Trident and Gecko include:
- K-Meleon with the IE Tab extension
- Mozilla Firefox with the IE Tab extension
- Netscape Browser 8
Webkit- and Trident-based
[edit]- GNOME Web
- Maxthon (up until version 4.2)
- QQ browser
Blink- and Trident-based
[edit]Gecko-, Trident-, and Blink-based
[edit]Browsers that can use Trident, Gecko and Blink include:
KHTML-based
[edit]Presto-based
[edit]- Internet Channel (for Wii console, Opera-based)
- Nintendo DS Browser (Opera-based)
- Opera (for releases up until 12.18[21][22])
WebKit-based
[edit]| Status | Browser |
|---|---|
| Aloha Browser (iOS and Android) | |
| experimental | Amazon Kindle NetFront Browser |
| discontinued | Arora |
| discontinued | BOLT browser |
| Google Chrome for iOS | |
| Dolphin Browser (Android and Bada) | |
| discontinued | Dooble (qtwebkit version discontinued) (up to Version 1.56) |
| DuckDuckGo for Mac[23] | |
| Firefox for iOS | |
| discontinued | Flock (version 3.0 and above) |
| GNOME Web (Epiphany) | |
| iCab (version 4 uses WebKit; earlier versions used its own rendering engine) | |
| discontinued | Iris Browser |
| Konqueror (version 4 can use WebKit as an alternative to its native KHTML)[24] | |
| Maxthon (version 3.0 to 5.0. Since version 6 Maxthon uses Chromium[25]) | |
| Midori (versions released after acquisition in 2019 use Gecko) | |
| Microsoft Edge for iOS | |
| Nintendo 3DS NetFront Browser | |
| Nintendo Wii U NetFront Browser NX | |
| discontinued | OmniWeb |
| Otter Browser (uses Blink and WebKit; aims to recreate the features of old Opera) | |
| discontinued | OWB |
| discontinued | QtWeb |
| qutebrowser (a Blink-based backend is currently used by default) | |
| discontinued | Rekonq |
| Safari | |
| discontinued | PhantomJS (a headless browser) |
| discontinued | Shiira |
| SlimBoat[26] (versions released since 2019 use Gecko) | |
| discontinued | Steel for Android |
| surf | |
| discontinued | Uzbl |
| discontinued | Web Browser for S60, used in all Nokia Symbian smartphones |
| discontinued | webOS, used in the Palm Pre, Palm Pixi, Pre 2, HP Veer, Pre 3, and TouchPad mobile devices |
| WebPositive, browser in Haiku | |
| discontinued | xombrero |
Blink-based
[edit]- Chromium
- Amazon Silk
- Arc
- Avast Secure Browser
- Beaker
- Brave
- Cốc Cốc
- Comodo Dragon[27]
- Epic
- Google Chrome (based on Blink since Chrome v. 28)
- JioPages
- Microsoft Edge[28]
- NAVER Whale
- Opera[29]
- Opera GX
- Puffin Browser
- qutebrowser (Blink backend mostly stable)
- Redcore
- Rockmelt
- SalamWeb
- Sleipnir
- SRWare Iron
- Torch
- Ungoogled-chromium
- Vivaldi
- Yandex Browser
- Qt WebEngine
EdgeHTML-based
[edit]- Microsoft Edge (formerly using EdgeHTML, now using Blink)[30]
For Java platform
[edit]- BOLT Browser
- HotJava
- Opera Mini (only the Android version is actively developed as of 2022)
- ThunderHawk
Specialty browsers
[edit]Browsers created for enhancements of specific browsing activities.
Current
[edit]- ZAC Browser (for children with autism, autism spectrum disorders such as Asperger syndrome, pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), and PDD-NOS)
Discontinued
[edit]- Flock (to enhance social networking, blogging, photo-sharing, and RSS news-reading)
- Ghostzilla (blends into the GUI to hide activity)
- Gollum browser (created specially for browsing Wikipedia)
- Kirix Strata (designed for data analytics)
- Miro (a media browser that integrates a BitTorrent addon)
- Nightingale (open source audio player and web browser based on the Songbird (see below) media player source code)
- Prodigy Classic (executable only within the application)
- Rockmelt (designed to combine web browsing, and social activities such as Facebook and Twitter into a unified one window experience)
- Songbird (browser with advanced audio streaming features and built-in media player with library)
- SpaceTime (search the web in 3D)
Mosaic-based
[edit]Mosaic was the first widely used web browser. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) licensed the technology and many companies built their own web browser on Mosaic. The best known are the first versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape.
- AMosaic
- IBM WebExplorer
- Internet Explorer 1.x
- Internet in a Box
- Mosaic-CK
- Netscape
- Spyglass Mosaic
- VMS Mosaic
Others
[edit]- Abaco (for Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Linux[31])
- Amaya
- Arachne (for DOS and Linux)
- Arena
- Ariadna (AMSD Ariadna) (first Russian web browser)
- AWeb (AmigaOS)
- Baidu Mobile Browser
- Charon (for Inferno)
- Dillo (for lower-end computers)
- DR-WebSpyder (for DOS)
- Embrowser (for DOS)
- Flow browser
- Gazelle (from Microsoft Research, OS-like)
- IBrowse (for AmigaOS)
- Ladybird (from SerenityOS)
- Mothra (for Plan 9 from Bell Labs)
- NetPositive (for BeOS)
- NetSurf (an open source web browser originally for RISC OS and GTK, e.g. Linux, Windows and more platforms, written in C)
- Phoenix, a browser based on tkWWW
- Planetweb browser (for Dreamcast)
- Qihoo 360 mobile browsers
- tkWWW, based on Tcl
- Voyager (for AmigaOS)
Mobile browsers
[edit]- Amazon Silk
- Apple Safari
- Arc
- Brave
- Dolphin browser
- Firefox Focus
- Google Chrome
- Microsoft Edge
- Mozilla Firefox
- Opera Mobile
- Puffin Browser
- QQ browser
- Samsung Internet
- UC Browser
- Vivaldi
Text-based
[edit]See also
[edit]- History of the web browser
- Timeline of web browsers
- Comparison of web browsers
- Comparison of browser engines
- List of search engines
- List of web browsers for Unix and Unix-like operating systems
- Usage share of web browsers
- Browser wars
References
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- ^ "Speed, Security and Simplicity: Opera 8 Web Browser Released Today" (Press release). Opera Software. April 19, 2005. Retrieved February 19, 2008.
- ^ "Your Web, Your Choice: Opera 9 Gives You the Control" (Press release). Opera Software. June 20, 2006. Retrieved December 10, 2008.
- ^ "Opera redefines Web browsing yet again" (Press release). Opera Software. June 12, 2008. Retrieved June 12, 2008.
- ^ "Turbocharge your Web experience with Opera 10" (Press release). Opera Software. September 1, 2009. Retrieved January 2, 2010.
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- ^ "Introducing DuckDuckGo for Mac: A Private, Fast, and Secure Browsing App". April 12, 2022.
- ^ "Projects/WebKit/Part — KDE TechBase". KDE TechBase. Retrieved March 30, 2010.
- ^ "Maxthon Browser". Archived from the original on February 11, 2021. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
- ^ "Slimboat". slimboat.com. Retrieved February 11, 2015.
- ^ JoWa (May 2, 2014). "Blink, since v. 28". Comodo Group, Inc. Archived from the original on March 17, 2016. Retrieved April 21, 2017.
- ^ "Microsoft Edge: Making the web better through more open source collaboration". Microsoft Windows Blog. Microsoft. December 6, 2018. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
- ^ "A first peek at Opera 15 for Computers". Opera. Archived from the original on June 7, 2013. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
- ^ "The new Microsoft Edge is now mandatory in Windows 10 20H2". News, Reviews and Technical Support. BleepingComputer. October 20, 2020. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 6, 2016. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
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External links
[edit]- Adrian Roselli, evolt.org Browser Archive (2004). List and archive of many current and obsolete web browsers.
- Daniel R. Tobias, Brand-X Browsers (2002).
- Michael Bernadi, DOS Applications for Internet Use (2006).