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The following is a list of notable web browsers.

Timeline representing the history of various web browsers.

Historical

A rough estimate of usage share by percent of layout engines of web browsers as of Q2 2009, see usage share of web browsers.

Notable

In order of release:

WorldWideWeb, February 26, 1991
Mosaic, April 22, 1993
Netscape Navigator and Netscape Communicator, October 13, 1994
Internet Explorer, August 16, 1995
Opera, 1996, see History of the Opera web browser
Mozilla Navigator, June 5, 2002^[18]
Safari, January 7, 2003
Mozilla Firefox, November 9, 2004
Google Chrome, September 2, 2008

Notable layout engines

Gecko is developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
KHTML is developed by the KDE project.
Presto is developed by Opera Software, although development is expected to halt as Opera transitions to WebKit.
Tasman was developed by Microsoft for use in Internet Explorer 5 for Macintosh.
Trident is developed by Microsoft for use in the Windows version of their web browser, from Internet Explorer 4 to the present time.
WebKit is a fork of KHTML by Apple Inc. used by Apple Safari and Google Chrome.

Graphical

Current/maintained projects are 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:

360 Secure Browser
AOL Explorer (discontinued)
Bento Browser (built into Winamp)
GreenBrowser
Internet Explorer
MediaBrowser (discontinued)
MenuBox
MSN Explorer (discontinued)
NeoPlanet (discontinued)
NetCaptor (discontinued)
RealPlayer
SiteKiosk
SlimBrowser
Tencent Traveler
ThreeTeeth Browser
TomeRaider
UltraBrowser (discontinued)
WebbIE

Gecko-based

Mozilla Application Suite (discontinued)

Beonex Communicator (separate branch, based on Mozilla Application Suite) (discontinued)
Classilla (an updated fork of the Suite to Mac OS 9)
Gnuzilla GNU's fork
Netscape (discontinued; Netscape 6 to 7, based on Mozilla)
SeaMonkey (successor to Mozilla Application Suite)
- Iceape Debian's Seamonkey rebrand

Yahoo! Browser (or partnership browsers e.g. "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 (discontinued; based on K-Meleon)
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 (discontinued; based on Firefox)
Swiftfox (processor-optimised builds based on Firefox)
Flock (discontinued; was based on Firefox until version 2.6.1, and based on Chromium thereafter)
Epic (based on Firefox, targeted to Indian people with local language based word processor and other local things to India)
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
Pale Moon (Windows-only optimized browser based on Firefox)

Camino for Mac OS X (formerly Chimera)
Conkeror, keyboard-driven browser
Minimo (for mobile, discontinued)
Firefox for Mobile (codenamed Fennec)
Skyfire (for mobile)
MicroB (for Maemo)

Gecko- and Trident-based

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 (discontinued)

Webkit- and Trident-based

Baidu Browser
Maxthon (formerly known as MyIE2)
Sleipnir

Gecko-, Trident- and WebKit-based

Browsers that can use Trident, Gecko and WebKit include:

Avant Browser^[19]
Lunascape^[20]

KHTML-based

Konqueror
Konqueror Embedded

Presto-based

Internet Channel (for Wii console, Opera-based)
Nintendo DS Browser (Opera-based)
Opera (for releases up until 12.14^[21])
Habrowser

WebKit-based

Amazon Kindle (experimental)
Arora (discontinued)
BOLT browser
Chromium
- Google Chrome
- Amigo
- Comodo Dragon
- QIP Surf
- Nichrome
- SRWare Iron
- RockMelt
- Uran Browser
- Yandex browser
- Opera (not yet, but announced ^[21])
Dolphin Browser
Dooble
Flock (discontinued)(version 3.0 and above)
iCab (version 4 uses WebKit; earlier versions used its own rendering engine)
Iris Browser
Konqueror (version 4 can use WebKit as an alternative to its native KHTML^[22])
Midori
Nintendo 3DS NetFront Browser NX
OmniWeb
OWB
QupZilla
Rekonq
Safari
Shiira
SlimBoat
Steel for Android
Steam ingame browser
Teashark
Ultralight^[23] for Android
Uzbl
Web
Web Browser for S60, used in all Nokia Symbian smartphones.
webOS, used in the Palm Pre, Palm Pixi, Pre 2, HP Veer, Pre 3 and TouchPad mobile devices
WebPositive, browser in Haiku
xombrero

For Java platform

Bitstream ThunderHawk
BOLT Browser (discontinued)
HotJava (discontinued)
Opera Mini
uZard Web
UCWEB
HtmlUnit (GUI-less)

Specialty browsers

Browsers created for enhancements of specific browsing activities.

Current

Gollum browser (Created specially for browsing Wikipedia)
Image Xplorer (Designed only to view, download, and print images)
Kirix Strata (Designed for data analytics)
Miro (A media browser that integrates BitTorrent like Opera's integrated BitTorrent)
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)
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.)
Epic Browser (Built on the Firefox core and targeted at Indian users with local language based word processor)

Discontinued

Ghostzilla (Blends into the GUI to hide activity)
Prodigy Classic (Executable only within the application)
Flock (To enhance social networking, blogging, photosharing, and RSS newsreading)

Mosaic based

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

Abaco (for Plan 9 from Bell Labs)
Amaya
Arachne (for DOS)
Arena
Ariadna (AMSD Ariadna) (first Russian web browser, discontinued)
AWeb (AmigaOS)
Baidu Mobile Browser
Comodo Dragon web browser
Charon (for Inferno)
Dillo (Small, fast, free, minimalistic, and multi-platform)
DR-WebSpyder (for DOS, discontinued)
Embrowser (for DOS, discontinued)
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 for RISC OS and GTK+ written in C)
Planetweb browser (discontinued for Dreamcast)
Qihoo 360 mobile browsers
Phoenix, a browser based on tkWWW
tkWWW, based on Tcl
Voyager (for AmigaOS)

Mobile

Main article: Mobile browser

Text-based

Main article: Text-based web browser

Notes

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^ http://stats.areppim.com/stats/stats_internetxfcst.htm
^ Brennan, Elaine (Sun, 13 Jun 1993). "World Wibe Web Browser: Ms-Windows (Beta) (1/149)". Humanist Archives Vol. 7. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Archives/Virginia/v07/0048.html. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
^ Großmann, Prof. Dr. Hans Peter. "Department of Information Resource Management". University of Ulm. http://www.uni-ulm.de/uni/veroeff/fb/93-95/126.html.en. Retrieved 22 March 2010.
^ "Oracle Introduces PowerBrowser". Oracle Corporation. 18 June 1996. http://www.ncns.com/browser.html. Retrieved 2007-10-31.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l "Release history". W3C. http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/New.html. Retrieved 2009-05-02.
^ "Opera Software Releases 3.60" (Press release). Opera Software. 1998-05-12. http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/1999/05/19990512.dml. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
^ "Opera 4.0 for Windows Released" (Press release). Opera Software. 2000-06-27. http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2000/06/27/. Retrieved 2008-12-10.
^ "The Browser War Lights Up in Europe" (Press release). Opera Software. 2000-12-06. http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2000/12/06_2/. Retrieved 2008-12-10.
^ "Opera 6.0 for Windows launched after record-breaking beta" (Press release). Opera Software. 2001-11-29. http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2001/11/20011129.dml. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
^ "Opera 7 Ready to Rock the Web" (Press release). Opera Software. 2003-01-28. http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2003/01/28/. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
^ "Speed, Security and Simplicity: Opera 8 Web Browser Released Today" (Press release). Opera Software. 2005-04-19. http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2005/04/19/. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
^ "Your Web, Your Choice: Opera 9 Gives You the Control" (Press release). Opera Software. 2006-06-20. http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2006/06/20/. Retrieved 2008-12-10.
^ "Opera redefines Web browsing yet again" (Press release). Opera Software. 2008-06-12. http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2008/06/12/. Retrieved 2008-06-12.
^ "Turbocharge your Web experience with Opera 10" (Press release). Opera Software. 2009-09-01. http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2009/09/01/. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
^ "The world's fastest browser for Windows" (Press release). Oslo, Norway: Opera Software. 2010-03-02. http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2010/03/02/. Retrieved 28 March 2010.
^ "Mozilla 1.0". mozilla.org. 2002. http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0.html. Retrieved 2008-09-07.
^ "Try Avant Browser 2012 for a Choice of Rendering Engines". PC world. 2012-01-03. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/247206/try_avant_browser_2012_for_a_choice_of_rendering_engines.html. Retrieved 2012-01-03.
^ "Have it all: Lunascape, the browser with three engines". CNET News. 2008-11-24. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10105896-2.html. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
^ ^a ^b "300 million users and move to WebKit". http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/300-million-users-and-move-to-webkit.
^ "Projects/WebKit/Part — KDE TechBase". KDE TechBase. http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/WebKit/Part. Retrieved 2010-03-30.
^ appiphiliac. "UltraLight Web Browser". AppBrain.com. http://www.appbrain.com/app/ultralight-web-browser/com.nj.appiphiliac.browser. Retrieved 2010-03-30.

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).

Early web browsers (up to 1996)

Comparison History List for Unix Timeline Usage share

1990	WorldWideWeb (Nexus)

1991	Line Mode Browser (libwww)

1992	ViolaWWW Erwise MidasWWW MacWWW (Samba) tkWWW

1993	NCSA Mosaic AMosaic VMS Mosaic Cello Lynx (2.0) Arena Emacs/W3

1994	IBM WebExplorer Netscape Navigator MicroMind SlipKnot (1.0) TradeWave MacWeb IBrowse Navipress Argo Minuet AIR Mosaic (Internet in a Box) Spyglass Mosaic TCP/Connect II ANT Fresco

1995	Internet Explorer 1 Netscape Navigator 2.0 OmniWeb Sun WebRunner (HotJava) Grail Internet Explorer 2 Delrina Cyberjack AOL Web Browser for Macintosh eWorld Web Browser for Macintosh NetShark WebShark Opera AMSD Ariadna UdiWWW ALynx Agora

1996	Arachne 1.0 Internet Explorer 3 Netscape Navigator 3.0 Oracle PowerBrowser Apple Cyberdog INRIA Amaya (.9) AWeb VaporWare Voyager tcpCONNECT4

Related articles	3D Markup Language for Web Aliweb ARPANET ASCII BITNET Browser wars CompuServe Email Elm File Transfer Protocol Gopher HyperCard HTML HyTelnet libwww NCSA Telnet NLS Prodigy Teletext Telnet Usenet UUCP Videotex Viewdata Virtual Reality Markup Language Web page Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog World Wide Web X.25

Web browsers

Features	Ad filtering Augmented browsing Download manager Cookies Favicon Incremental search Bookmarks (Bookmarklet Live bookmark Smart Bookmark) Browser security Privacy mode Browser synchronizer (comparison) Tabbed browsing Universal Edit Button Plugin Extension

Web standards	Acid tests Cascading Style Sheets HTML HTML5 OCSP SVG XHTML WebGL JavaScript MathML

Related topics	World Wide Web Widget Rich Internet application Site-specific browser Internet suite Mobile Web Offline reader BrowserChoice.eu Pwn2Own iLoo Man-in-the-browser WPAD PAC SPDY HTTP HTTPS SSL/TLS WebSocket XML CRL

Desktop

Gecko-based	AT&T Pogo Avant Camino Firefox (Epic Conkeror GNU IceCat Pale Moon Pentadactyl Timberwolf Swiftfox Swiftweasel TenFourFox Vimperator xB Browser) Galeon Ghostzilla K-Meleon Kazehakase Kirix Strata Lotus Symphony Lunascape Mozilla (Beonex Communicator Classilla Netscape SeaMonkey)

WebKit-based	Arora Avant Chromium (Chrome Dragon SRWare Iron Torch Yandex.Browser) Dooble Flock Fluid iCab Konqueror Lunascape Maxthon Midori OmniWeb Origyn Web Browser QupZilla rekonq Safari Shiira Sleipnir Uzbl Web WebPositive xombrero

Presto-based	Opera

Trident-based	AOL Explorer Avant Conqueror Browser Deepnet Explorer Empire Browser GreenBrowser Lunascape Maxthon MenuBox NeoPlanet NetCaptor Internet Explorer MediaBrowser Sleipnir SlimBrowser SpaceTime UltraBrowser WebbIE ZAC Browser

Text-based	ELinks Emacs/W3 Line Mode Browser Links Lynx Net-Tamer w3m

Other	abaco Amaya Arachne Arena Charon Dillo Gazelle IBM Home Page Reader IBrowse KidZui Mosaic Mothra NetPositive NetSurf

Mobile

Gecko-based	Firefox for mobile MicroB Minimo

Presto-based	Nintendo DS & DSi Browser Opera Mini Opera Mobile

WebKit-based	Android Browser Chrome Dolphin Browser S60 web browser Rockmelt Safari Silk Nintendo 3DS Internet Browser Steel BOLT

Other	Blazer Deepfish Galio ibisBrowser Internet Explorer Mobile Iris Browser Konqueror Embedded NetFront Obigo Browser Skweezer Skyfire Teashark ThunderHawk UC Browser uZard Web Vision WinWAP BlackBerry Browser

Television and video game console

Gecko-based	Kylo

Presto-based	Internet Channel

WebKit-based	Google TV NetFront Steam overlay Wii U Internet Browser

Other	Galio MSN TV (WebTV)

Software no longer in development shown in italics

Category
Commons

List of web browsers

Contents

Historical

Notable

Notable layout engines

Graphical

Trident shells

Gecko-based

Gecko- and Trident-based

Webkit- and Trident-based

Gecko-, Trident- and WebKit-based

KHTML-based

Presto-based

WebKit-based

For Java platform

Specialty browsers

Current

Discontinued

Mosaic based

Others

Mobile

Text-based

See also

Notes

External links