Software:List of web browsers

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Timeline representing the history of various web browsers

The following is a list of web browsers that are notable.

Historical

Layout engines

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

Goanna-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

Gecko- and Trident-based

Browsers that use both Trident and Gecko include:

Webkit- and Trident-based

Blink- and Trident-based

Gecko-, Trident-, and Blink-based

Browsers that can use Trident, Gecko and Blink include:

KHTML-based

Presto-based

WebKit-based

Status Browser
Aloha Browser (iOS and Android)
experimental Amazon Kindle NetFront Browser
discontinued Arora
discontinued BOLT browser
Google Chrome for iOS
Dolphin Browser (Android and Bada)
discontinued Dooble (qtwebkit version discontinued) (up to Version 1.56)
DuckDuckGo for Mac[7]
Firefox for iOS
discontinued Flock (version 3.0 and above)
GNOME Web (Epiphany)
iCab (version 4 uses WebKit; earlier versions used its own rendering engine)
discontinued Iris Browser
Konqueror (version 4 can use WebKit as an alternative to its native KHTML)[8]
Maxthon (version 3.0 to 5.0. Since version 6 Maxthon uses Chromium[9])
Midori
Microsoft Edge for iOS
Nintendo 3DS NetFront Browser
Nintendo Wii U NetFront Browser NX
discontinued OmniWeb
Otter Browser (uses Blink and WebKit; aims to recreate the features of old Opera)
discontinued OWB
discontinued QtWeb
qutebrowser (a Blink-based backend is currently used by default)
Roccat Browser
discontinued Rekonq
Safari
discontinued PhantomJS (a headless browser)
discontinued Shiira
discontinued SlimBoat[10]
discontinued Steel for Android
surf
discontinued Uzbl
discontinued Web Browser for S60, used in all Nokia Symbian smartphones
discontinued webOS, used in the Palm Pre, Palm Pixi, Pre 2, HP Veer, Pre 3, and TouchPad mobile devices
WebPositive, browser in Haiku
discontinued xombrero

Blink-based

EdgeHTML-based

For Java platform

Specialty browsers

Browsers created for enhancements of specific browsing activities.

Current

Discontinued

  • 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-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

Mobile browsers

Main page: Software:Mobile browser

Text-based

Main page: Software:Text-based web browser

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://caminobrowser.org Camino reaches its end
  2. ↑ "Try Avant Browser 2012 for a Choice of Rendering Engines". PC World. 2012-01-03. https://www.pcworld.com/article/247206/try_avant_browser_2012_for_a_choice_of_rendering_engines.html. 
  3. ↑ "Have it all: Lunascape, the browser with three engines". CNET News. 2008-11-24. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10105896-2.html. 
  4. ↑ "300 million users and move to WebKit". Opera Developer News. http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/300-million-users-and-move-to-webkit. 
  5. ↑ "Surprise: Opera 12.18 has been released – gHacks Tech News" (in en-US). gHacks Technology News. 2016-02-16. https://www.ghacks.net/2016/02/16/surprise-opera-12-18-has-been-released/. 
  6. ↑ "Introducing DuckDuckGo for Mac: A Private, Fast, and Secure Browsing App". April 12, 2022. https://spreadprivacy.com/introducing-duckduckgo-for-mac/. 
  7. ↑ "Projects/WebKit/Part — KDE TechBase". KDE TechBase. http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/WebKit/Part. 
  8. ↑ "Maxthon Browser". https://www.maxthon.com/mx6/changelog/. 
  9. ↑ "Slimboat". http://www.slimboat.com/en/. 
  10. ↑ JoWa, Product Translator, Global Moderator (2 May 2014). "Blink, since v. 28". Comodo Group, Inc.. https://forums.comodo.com/news-announcements-feedback-cd/comodo-dragon-33-vs-opera-20-vs-firefox-29-t104231.0.html;msg757861#msg757861. 
  11. ↑ "Microsoft Edge: Making the web better through more open source collaboration". Microsoft. December 6, 2018. https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/microsoft-edge-making-the-web-better-through-more-open-source-collaboration/. 
  12. ↑ "A first peek at Opera 15 for Computers". Opera. http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/2013/05/28/a-first-peek-at-opera-15-for-computers. 
  13. ↑ "The new Microsoft Edge is now mandatory in Windows 10 20H2". BleepingComputer. 20 October 2020. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/the-new-microsoft-edge-is-now-mandatory-in-windows-10-20h2/. 
  14. ↑ "Archived copy". http://lab-fgb.com/abaco/tar/abaco-20080209-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz. 

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