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The following is a list of web browsers that are notable.
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Historical
See also: Timeline of web browsers
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.
Layout engines
- 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.
- EdgeHTML is the engine developed by Microsoft for Edge. It is a largely rewritten fork of Trident with all legacy code removed.
- Tasman was developed by Microsoft for use in Internet Explorer 5 for Macintosh.
- KHTML is developed by the KDE project.
- WebKit is a fork of KHTML by Apple Inc. used in Apple Safari, and formerly in Chromium and Google Chrome.
Graphical
Current and maintained projects are listed in boldface.
Trident shells
Other software publishers have built browsers and other products around Microsoft's Trident engine. The following browsers are all based on that rendering engine:Gecko-based
- 360 Secure Browser
- AOL Explorer
- Bento Browser (built into Winamp)
- Deepnet Explorer
- GreenBrowser
- Internet Explorer
- MediaBrowser
- MSN Explorer
- NeoPlanet
- NetCaptor
- RealPlayer
- Tencent Traveler
Goanna-based
- Camino for Mac OS X (formerly Chimera)
- Conkeror, keyboard-driven browser
- Galeon, GNOME's old default browser
- K-Meleon for 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)
- AT&T Pogo (based on Firefox)
- Cliqz, a fork of the Firefox web browser
- CometBird, an optimized fork of Firefox
- Comodo IceDragon (Firefox-based web browser for Windows)
- Flock (was based on Firefox until version 2.6.1, and based on Chromium thereafter)
- Iceweasel, Debian's Firefox rebrand
- GNU IceCat, GNU's fork of Firefox
- Netscape Browser 8 to Netscape Navigator 9
- TenFourFox (Firefox port to PowerPC versions of Mac OS X)
- Timberwolf, AmigaOS' Firefox rebrand
- Tor Browser, patched Firefox ESR for browsing in Tor anonymity network
- Swiftfox (processor-optimised builds based on Firefox)
- Swiftweasel (processor-optimised builds based on Iceweasel)
- 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 mobile (codenamed Fennec)
- Mozilla Application Suite
- Beonex Communicator (separate branch, based on Mozilla Application Suite)
- Classilla (an updated fork of the Suite to Mac OS 9)
- Gnuzilla GNU's fork
- Netscape (Netscape 6 to 7, based on Mozilla)
- SeaMonkey (successor to 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.)
Gecko- and Trident-based
- 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
Browsers that use both Trident and Gecko include:Webkit- and Trident-based
- K-Meleon with the IE Tab extension
- Mozilla Firefox with the IE Tab extension
- Netscape Browser 8
Blink- and Trident-based Gecko-, Trident-, and Blink-based
- GNOME Web
- Maxthon (up until version 4.2)
- QQ browser
Browsers that can use Trident, Gecko and Blink include: KHTML-based Presto-basedBlink-based
- Internet Channel (for Wii console, Opera-based)
- Nintendo DS Browser (Opera-based)
- Opera (for releases up until 12.18)
EdgeHTML-based
- Chromium
- Amazon Silk
- Avast Secure Browser
- Blisk
- Brave
- Coc Coc
- Comodo Dragon
- Epic
- Google Chrome (based on Blink since Chrome v. 28)
- JioPages
- Microsoft Edge
- Opera
- Opera GX
- Puffin Browser
- Redcore
- RockMelt
- Sleipnir
- SRWare Iron
- Torch
- Ungoogled-chromium
- qutebrowser (Blink backend mostly stable)
- Vivaldi
- NAVER Whale
- Yandex Browser
- Qt WebEngine
For Java platform Specialty browsers
- Microsoft Edge (formerly using EdgeHTML, now using Blink)
See also: Augmented browsing, List of augmented browsing software, and Site-specific browser
Browsers created for enhancements of specific browsing activities.
CurrentDiscontinued
- SpaceTime (Search the web in 3D)
- ZAC Browser (For children with autism, autism spectrum disorders such as Asperger syndrome, pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), and PDD-NOS)
Mosaic-based
- 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 BitTorrent add-on)
- 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.)
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.Others
- AMosaic
- IBM WebExplorer
- Internet Explorer 1.x
- Internet in a Box
- Mosaic-CK
- Netscape
- Spyglass Mosaic
- VMS Mosaic
Mobile browsers
- Abaco (for Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Linux)
- 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)
- 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)
Main article: Mobile browser
- Amazon Silk
- Apple Safari
- Brave
- Dolphin browser
- Firefox Focus
- Google Chrome
- Microsoft Edge
- Mozilla Firefox
- Opera Mobile
- Puffin Browser
- QQ browser
- Samsung Internet
- UC Browser
- Vivaldi
Text-based
Main article: Text-based web browser
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