List of web browsers

 

The following is a list of web browsers.

Historical

Historically important browsers

In order of release:

• WorldWideWeb, February 26, 1991
• Erwise, April 1992
• ViolaWWW, May 1992, see Erwise
• WWW - The Libwww Line-Mode Browser, before February 11, 1991
• Mosaic, April 22, 1993
• Netscape Navigator and Netscape Communicator, October 13, 1994
• Internet Explorer (including Internet Explorer for Mac and Internet Explorer for UNIX), August 1995, see History of Internet Explorer
• Opera, 1996, see History of the Opera Internet suite

Early browsers

• Act
• AMosaic
• Arena
• Cello
• CyberDog
• Grail
• IBM Web Explorer
• Lynx
• MacWeb
• MidasWWW
• NetShark
• Oracle PowerBrowser
• SlipKnot
• WebRouser September 18, 1995^[1]

Graphical

Trident & Gecko-based browsers

The Trident layout engine was developed by Microsoft for use in the Windows version of their web browser, Internet Explorer.

The Gecko layout engine is developed by the Mozilla Foundation.

Browsers that use both engines include:

• Netscape Browser 8
• NotJustBrowsing, (version 1.0.10)
• Maxthon (formerly known as MyIE2)
• Scope
• Networker

Trident-based browsers

Other software publishers have extended the functionality of Microsoft's Trident engine by creating Internet Explorer shells. The following browsers are all based on the Trident rendering engine:

• Arlington Kiosk Browser
• AM Browser, (formerly known as Crazy Browser)
• AOL Explorer
• Altimit OS Web Browser
• Avant Browser
• Browzar
• Cayman Browser
• G-Browser
• Maxthon
• Slim Browser
• NeoPlanet
• NetCaptor
• Many other Internet Explorer shells
• Yahoo! Browser (or partnership browsers eg. "AT&T Yahoo! Browser"; "Verizon Yahoo! Browser"; "BT Yahoo! Browser" etc.)
• iRider
• Smart Bro
• UltraBrowser
• Souvergin
• TheWorld Browser
• Triumf Internet

Gecko-based browsers

• Alefox
• Beonex Communicator
• Camino for Mac OS X (formerly Chimera)
• Cloud Web Browser
• CompuServe
• DocZilla, a SGML browser
• Epiphany, GNOME's current default browser
• e-Capsule Private Browser - encrypted browser with anonymous surfing
• Flock (based on Firefox)
• Galeon, GNOME's former default browser
• IceWeasel, Debian'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 [[GTK+|GTK2]] web browser for GNU/Linux
• Madfox (based on Firefox)
• ManyOne
• Mozilla Firefox (formerly Firebird and Phoenix)
• Netscape (version 6 and newer)
• Salamander
• SeaMonkey (internal name for Mozilla Application Suite, now public name.)
• Skipstone
• uBrowser - an OpenGL based 3D browser that uses the Gecko renderer from the Mozilla 1.8.1 codebase
• XeroBank Browser (formerly Torpark), portable browser for anonymous browsing

KHTML and WebKit-based browsers

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

• ABrowse
• DeskBrowse
• Konqueror
• OmniWeb
• Safari
• Web Browser for S60 (for mobile)
• Shiira
• SkyKruzer
• Sunrise
• Swift
• Sputnik (for MorphOS)

Browsers for the Java platform

• HotJava (discontinued)
• ICE Browser
• Jazilla
• Lobo
• WebRenderer

Specialty Browsers (Current)

Browsers Created for enhancements of specific browsing activities.

• BloinkBOX ( For building bookmark libraries and channel-scanning websites using a slider system [patent pending])
• BrailleSurf (For rendering pages in braille)
• Buddy Browser (A hybrid browser/portal/search engine with parental controls, allowing kids to visit all of their favorite websites in a safe way.)
• Deck-It (WML website viewing | for developers)
• Flock (To enhance blogging, photosharing, and RSS newsreading)
• Ghostzilla (Blends into the GUI to hide activity)
• Heatseek (Designed to hide adult web browsing activity behind encryption)
• Image Xplorer (For viewing and downloading images only)
• Kirix Strata (For accessing data from the web (CSV, HTML tables, RSS Feeds) and then for manipulating it like you would with a spreadsheet or desktop database)
• Public Web Browser (Designed for unenhancement of specific browsing activities.)
• Songbird (software) (browser with advanced audio streaming features and built in media player with library.)
• Surf Knight (Browser for kids)
• SpaceTime (Search the web in 3D)
• Swoot (the first web-based browser, build your own browser)
• Wyzo (A media browser that integrates BitTorrent)

Specialty Browsers (Discontinued)

• Alis Tango (For non-English language)
• AOL (For use with their proprietary intranet)
• Mathbrowser (Designed to help render math equations on the web)

Other browsers

• 3B (3D browser)
• Abaco (for Plan 9 from Bell Labs)
• Amaya
• Arachne (DOS)
• AWeb
• BrowseX [1]
• Check&Get [2] (Browser and web change monitor, provides the tracking websites for updates and changes.)
• Charon (for Inferno)
• Chimera (not to be confused with Camino, which previously used the same name)
• Dillo (Small, fast, free, minimalistic, and multi-platform)
• Deepnet Explorer - Web + P2P + News Browser
• Dreamkey Dreamcast European browser
• Emacs/W3
• Enigma (super fast browser) [3]
• Gollum browser
• Hv3 (using Tkhtml)
• iMeerkat (the simple browser)
• IBrowse
• iCab
• Kidz CD (web browser for children) [4]
• Links2 ("Links" text browser, with graphics and Javascript capabilities added)
• Links-hacked (some "Elinks" text browser improvements merged into Links2 graphics browser)
• Mothra (for Plan 9 from Bell Labs)
• NetPositive
• NetSurf (An open source web browser for RISC OS and GTK+ written in C)
• NetSurfer Browser (An IE-based web browser)
• Nintendo DS Browser
• Off By One
• Offline Downloader
• Opera (Presto)
• Oregano
• Planetweb browser (discont. for Dreamcast)
• ProSyst mBrowser
• PlayStation Portable web browser
• Right Web Monitor [5] (Browser, bookmark manager, RSS reader and web change monitor.)
• Sleipnir
• SPIN (DOS)
• SuperBot (offline browser)
• VMS Mosaic (browser for OpenVMS)
• Voyager
• X-Smiles (experimental)

Mobile browsers

See Microbrowser

Text-based

• Abaco
• Alynx
• Bobcat
• cURL (Line-mode browser)
• DosLynx
• ELinks (active version of Links)
• Links (not currently active)
• Lynx
• Netrik
• Net-Tamer
• Retawq
• w3m
• Wanna-Be (for Mac OS 7.5 - 9)
• WebbIE
• wget (Line-mode browser)

See also

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

Notes

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).
• WebRenderer, Java browser component
• Michael Bernadi, DOS Applications for Internet Use (2006).
• Historicaly Important Browsers

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