List of web browsers
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The following is a list of notable web browsers.
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[edit] Historical
[edit] 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[1]
- Safari, January 7, 2003
- Mozilla Firefox, November 9, 2004
- Google Chrome, September 2, 2008
[edit] 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
[edit] Graphical
[edit] 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
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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
[edit] KHTML-based browsers
[edit] 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
[edit] Presto-based browsers
- Internet Channel (Web browser for the Wii console) (Opera powered)
- Nintendo DS Browser (Opera Powered)
- Opera
[edit] 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
[edit] Specialty browsers
Browsers created for enhancements of specific browsing activities.
[edit] 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.)
[edit] Discontinued
- AOL (For use with their proprietary intranet)
- Ghostzilla (Blends into the GUI to hide activity)
- Prodigy Classic (Executable only within the application)
[edit] 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)
[edit] Mobile browsers
Main article: Mobile browser
[edit] Text-based
- Alynx
- ELinks (active version of Links)
- Emacs/W3
- Links (not currently active)
- Lynx
- Net-Tamer
- w3m
- WebbIE
[edit] See also
- Browser timeline
- Comparison of web browsers
- List of layout engines
- List of web browsers for Unix and Unix-like operating systems
[edit] Notes
- ↑ "Mozilla 1.0". mozilla.org. 2002. http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0.html. Retrieved 2008-09-07.
[edit] 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).
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