List of web browsers

The following is a list of 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 (August 1995)
*Opera, 1996, see History of the Opera Internet suite
*Mozilla Navigator, June 5, 2002 [cite web |url=http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0.html |title=Mozilla 1.0 |accessdate=2008-09-07 |publisher=mozilla.org |date=2002 ]
* Safari, January 7, 2003
*Mozilla Firefox, November 9, 2004
*Google Chrome, September 2, 2008

Graphical

Layout Engines

The Trident layout engine 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 (layout engine) was included with Internet Explorer 5 for Mac.

The Gecko layout engine is developed by the Mozilla Foundation.

The KHTML layout engine is developed by the KDE project. WebKit is an open-source fork of that engine by Apple Inc..

The Presto layout engine is developed by Opera Software.

Browsers that use both the Trident layout engine and the Gecko layout engine include:

* Maxthon (formerly known as MyIE2)
* Netscape Browser 8
* Mozilla Firefox with the IE Tab extension

Trident-based browsers

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
*Maxthon
*NeoPlanet
*NetCaptor
*Yahoo! Browser (or partnership browsers eg. "AT&T Yahoo! Browser"; "Verizon Yahoo! Browser"; "BT Yahoo! Browser" etc.)
*iRider
*Smart Bro
*Teega
*UltraBrowser
*Runecats Explorer

Gecko-based browsers

*AT&T Pogo (based on Firefox)
*Beonex Communicator
*Camino for Mac OS X (formerly "Chimera")
*CompuServe
*Conkeror
*DocZilla, an SGML browser
*Epiphany, GNOME's current default browser
*Flock (based on Firefox)
*Galeon, GNOME's former default browser
*GNU IceCat, GNU's free fork of Firefox
*K-Meleon for Windows
*K-MeleonCCF for Windows (based on K-Meleon)
*K-Ninja for Windows (based on K-Meleon)
*Kazehakase, a very light GTK2 web browser for GNU/Linux
*Kirix Strata, a web browser designed for data analytics
*Madfox (based on Firefox)
*ManyOne
*Mozilla Application Suite
*Mozilla Firefox (formerly "Firebird" and "Phoenix")
*Netscape (Netscape 6 to Netscape Navigator 9)
*SeaMonkey (successor to Mozilla Application Suite)
*Songbird (based on Firefox)
*Skipstone
*XeroBank Browser (formerly Torpark), portable browser for anonymous browsing

KHTML and WebKit-based browsers

*ABrowse
*Web Browser for Android (mobile device platform)
*Arora
*Epiphany, GNOME's current default browser (2.26+)
*Google Chrome
*iCab (version 4 uses WebKit; earlier versions used its own rendering engine)
*Konqueror
*Midori
*OmniWeb
*Safari
*Shiira
*Skipstone
*Sputnik for MorphOS (based on S60 WebCore)
*Web Browser for S60 (for 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
*HotJava (discontinued)
*Lobo
*Opera Mini
*X-Smiles (experimental)

pecialty browsers (current)

Browsers created for enhancements of specific browsing activities.
*Flock (To enhance social networking, blogging, photosharing, and RSS newsreading)
*Ghostzilla (Blends into the GUI to hide activity)
*Image Xplorer (Designed for the viewing, downloading, and printing of images only)
*Kirix Strata (Designed for data analytics)
*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.)

pecialty browsers (discontinued)

*AOL (For use with their proprietary intranet)

Other browsers

*3B (3D browser)
*Abaco (for Plan 9 from Bell Labs)
*Amaya
*Arachne (DOS)
*AWeb (AmigaOS)
*Charon (for Inferno)
*Dillo (Small, fast, free, minimalistic, and multi-platform)
*Emacs/W3
*Gollum browser
*Html Viewer 3
*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)
*Sleipnir
*VMS Mosaic
*Voyager (AmigaOS)

Mobile browsers

See Mobile browser

Text-based

*Abaco
*Alynx
*cURL (Line-mode browser)
*DosLynx
*edbrowse (Line-mode browser)
*ELinks (active version of Links)
*Links (not currently active)
*Lynx
*Net-Tamer
*w3m
*WebbIE
*wget (Line-mode browser)

ee also

*List of layout engines
*Comparison of web browsers
*List of web browsers for Unix/Linux
*Browser timeline

Notes

External links

*Adrian Roselli, [http://browsers.evolt.org/ evolt.org Browser Archive] (2004). List and archive of many current and obsolete web browsers.
*Daniel R. Tobias, [http://webtips.dan.info/brand-x/ Brand-X Browsers] (2002).
*Michael Bernadi, [http://www.dendarii.co.uk/FAQs/dos-apps.html DOS Applications for Internet Use] (2006).