List of web browsers

The following is a list of notable web browsers.

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Timeline representing the history of various web browsers.

Historical

Notable browsers

In order of release:

• WorldWideWeb, February 26, 1991
• Mosaic, April 22, 1993
• Netscape Navigator and Netscape Communicator, October 13, 1994
• Internet Explorer 1, August 16, 1995
• Opera, 1996, see History of the Opera Internet suite
• Mozilla Navigator, June 5, 2002
• Safari, January 7, 2003
• Mozilla Firefox, November 9, 2004
• Google Chrome, September 2, 2008

Notable layout engines

• Trident was developed by Microsoft for use in the Windows version of their web browser, Internet Explorer 4, and included up to Internet Explorer 8.
• Tasman was developed by Microsoft for use in Internet Explorer 5 for Macintosh.
• Gecko is developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
• KHTML is developed by the KDE project.
• WebKit is a fork of KHTML by Apple Inc.
• Presto is developed by Opera Software

Graphical

Trident-shells

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
• Avant Browser
• Bento Browser (built into Winamp)
• Enigma
• GreenBrowser
• Maxthon
• MenuBox
• MSN Explorer
• NeoPlanet
• NetCaptor (died)
• iRider
• RealPlayer
• Tencent Traveler
• TheWorld Browser
• UltraBrowser
• WebbIE

Gecko-based browsers

Current/maintained projects are in boldface.

• Mozilla Application Suite (discontinued)

• Beonex Communicator (fork, based on Mozilla Application Suite) (discontinued)
• Netscape (Netscape 6 to 7, based on Mozilla) (discontinued)
• SeaMonkey (successor to Mozilla Application Suite)
• Classilla (an updated fork of the Suite to Mac OS 9)

• Yahoo! Browser (or partnership browsers eg. "AT&T Yahoo! Browser"; "Verizon Yahoo! Browser"; "BT Yahoo! Browser" etc.)
• Galeon, GNOME's old default browser (discontinued)
• K-Meleon for Windows

• K-Ninja for Windows (based on K-Meleon; discontinued)
• K-MeleonCCF ME for Windows (based on K-Meleon core, mostly written in Lua)

• Mozilla Firefox (formerly Firebird and Phoenix)

• Netscape Browser 8 to Netscape Navigator 9 (discontinued)
• AT&T Pogo (based on Firefox, discontinued)
• Madfox (based on Firefox 1.0.x) (discontinued)
• Swiftfox (processor-optimised builds based on Firefox)
• Flock (based on Firefox)
• XeroBank Browser (formerly Torpark), portable browser for anonymous browsing, originally based on Firefox
• Iceweasel, Debian's Firefox rebrand
• Swiftweasel (processor-optimised builds based on Iceweasel)
• GNU IceCat, GNU's fork of Firefox

• DocZilla, an SGML browser (discontinued)
• Camino for Mac OS X (formerly Chimera)
• Conkeror, character- and keyboard driven browser, possibly targeted at people with disabilities
• Minimo (for mobile, discontinued)
• Fennec (for mobile)
• Skyfire (for mobile)

Gecko- and Trident-based browsers

Browsers that use both Trident and Gecko include:

• K-Meleon with the IE Tab extension
• Lunascape
• Maxthon (formerly known as MyIE2)
• Mozilla Firefox with the IE Tab extension
• Netscape Browser 8 (discontinued)
• Sleipnir

KHTML-based browsers

• Konqueror
• Konqueror Embedded

WebKit-based browsers

• ABrowse
• Arora
• Web Browser for Android (mobile device platform)
• BOLT browser
• Google Chrome
• Epiphany (web browser)
• iCab (version 4 uses WebKit; earlier versions used its own rendering engine)
• Iris Browser
• Midori
• OmniWeb
• rekonq
• Safari
• Shiira
• Sputnik for MorphOS (based on S60 WebCore)
• SRWare Iron
• Stainless
• TeaShark
• Uzbl
• Web Browser for S60 (for mobile)
• WebOS, used in the Palm Pre mobile

Presto-based browsers

• Internet Channel (Web browser for the Wii console) (Opera powered)
• Nintendo DS Browser (Opera Powered)
• Opera

Browsers for the Java platform

• Bitstream ThunderHawk
• BOLT Browser
• HotJava (discontinued)
• Lobo (formerly Warrior)
• Opera Mini
• uZard Web
• X-Smiles (experimental)
• Flying saucer, a Java library for rendering XML, XHTML, and CSS 2.1 content.
• UCWEB

Specialty browsers

Browsers created for enhancements of specific browsing activities.

Current

• Flock (To enhance social networking, blogging, photosharing, and RSS newsreading)
• Gollum browser (Created specially for browsing Wikipedia)
• Image Xplorer (Designed for the viewing, downloading, and printing of images only)
• Kirix Strata (Designed for data analytics)
• Miro (A media browser that integrates BitTorrent like Opera's integrated BitTorrent)
• Songbird (browser with advanced audio streaming features and built in media player with library.)
• SpaceTime (Search the web in 3D)
• Wyzo (A media browser that integrates BitTorrent like Opera's integrated BitTorrent)
• Zac Browser (For children with autism, and autism spectrum disorders such as Asperger syndrome, pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), and PDD-NOS.)

Discontinued

• AOL (For use with their proprietary intranet)
• Ghostzilla (Blends into the GUI to hide activity)
• Prodigy Classic (Executable only within the application)

Other browsers

• 3B (3D browser)
• Abaco (for Plan 9 from Bell Labs)
• Amaya
• Arachne (DOS)
• Ariadna (AMSD Ariadna) (first Russian web browser, discontinued)
• AWeb (AmigaOS)
• Charon (for Inferno)
• Dillo (Small, fast, free, minimalistic, and multi-platform)
• Gazelle (from Microsoft Research, OS-like)
• IBrowse (AmigaOS)
• Mothra (for Plan 9 from Bell Labs)
• NetPositive
• NetSurf (An open source web browser for RISC OS and GTK+ written in C)
• Oregano
• Planetweb browser (discont. for Dreamcast)
• VMS Mosaic
• Voyager (AmigaOS)

Mobile browsers

Main article: Mobile browser

Text-based

• Alynx
• ELinks (active version of Links)
• Emacs/W3
• Links (not currently active)
• Lynx
• Net-Tamer
• w3m
• WebbIE

See also

• Browser timeline
• Comparison of web browsers
• List of layout engines
• List of web browsers for Unix and Unix-like operating systems

External links

• 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).