Notable browsers
In order of release:
WorldWideWeb, February 26, 1991
Mosaic, April 22, 1993
Netscape Navigator and Netscape Communicator, October 13, 1994
Internet Explorer 1, August 16, 1995
Opera, 1996, see History of the Opera Internet suite
Mozilla Navigator, June 5, 2002[17]
Safari, January 7, 2003
Mozilla Firefox, November 9, 2004
Google Chrome, September 2, 2008
[edit]Notable layout engines
Trident was developed by Microsoft for use in the Windows version of their web browser, from Internet Explorer 4 to the present time.
Tasman was developed by Microsoft for use in Internet Explorer 5 for Macintosh.
Gecko is developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
KHTML is developed by the KDE project.
WebKit is a fork of KHTML by Apple Inc. used by Apple's Safari and Google Chrome
Presto is developed by Opera Software
[edit]Graphical
[edit]Trident-shells
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
GreenBrowser
Internet Explorer
iRider
Maxthon
MenuBox
MSN Explorer
NeoPlanet
NetCaptor
RealPlayer
SlimBrowser
Tencent Traveler
TomeRaider
TheWorld Browser
UltraBrowser
WebbIE
[edit]Gecko-based browsers
Current/maintained projects are in boldface.
Mozilla Application Suite (discontinued)
Beonex Communicator (fork, based on Mozilla Application Suite) (discontinued)
Netscape (Netscape 6 to 7, based on Mozilla) (discontinued)
SeaMonkey (successor to Mozilla Application Suite)
Classilla (an updated fork of the Suite to Mac OS 9)
Yahoo! Browser (or partnership browsers eg. "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 (based on K-Meleon; discontinued)
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 (based on Firefox, discontinued)
Madfox (based on Firefox 1.0.x) (discontinued)
Swiftfox (processor-optimised builds based on Firefox)
Flock (based on Firefox)
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
DocZilla, an SGML browser (discontinued)
Camino for Mac OS X (formerly Chimera)
Conkeror, character- and keyboard driven browser, possibly targeted at people with disabilities
Minimo (for mobile, discontinued)
Fennec (for mobile)
Skyfire (for mobile)
MicroB (for Maemo)
[edit]Gecko- and Trident-based browsers
Browsers that use both Trident and Gecko include:
K-Meleon with the IE Tab extension
Maxthon (formerly known as MyIE2)
Mozilla Firefox with the IE Tab extension
Netscape Browser 8 (discontinued)
Sleipnir
[edit]Gecko- and Trident- and WebKit-based browsers
Browsers that can use Trident, Gecko and WebKit include:
Lunascape[18]
[edit]KHTML-based browsers
Konqueror
Konqueror Embedded
[edit]WebKit-based browsers
Arora
Web Browser for Android (mobile device platform)
BOLT browser
Google Chrome
Epiphany (web browser)
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[19])
Midori
OmniWeb
OWB
Safari
Shiira
Sputnik for MorphOS (based on S60 WebCore)
SRWare Iron
Stainless
TeaShark
Uzbl
Web Browser for S60, used in all Nokia Symbian smartphones.
WebOS, used in the Palm Pre mobile
WebPositive, browser in Haiku
[edit]Presto-based browsers
Internet Channel (Web browser for the Wii console) (Opera powered)
Nintendo DS Browser (Opera Powered)
Opera
[edit]Browsers for the Java platform
Bitstream ThunderHawk
BOLT Browser
HotJava (discontinued)
Lobo (formerly Warrior)
Opera Mini
uZard Web
X-Smiles (experimental)
Flying saucer, a Java library for rendering XML, XHTML, and CSS 2.1 content.
UCWEB
[edit]Specialty browsers
Browsers created for enhancements of specific browsing activities.
[edit]Current
Flock (To enhance social networking, blogging, photosharing, and RSS newsreading)
Gollum browser (Created specially for browsing Wikipedia)
Image Xplorer (Designed for the viewing, downloading, and printing of images only)
Kirix Strata (Designed for data analytics)
Miro (A media browser that integrates BitTorrent like Opera's integrated BitTorrent)
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.)
[edit]Discontinued
AOL (For use with their proprietary intranet)
Ghostzilla (Blends into the GUI to hide activity)
Prodigy Classic (Executable only within the application)
[edit]Other browsers
3B (3D browser)
Abaco (for Plan 9 from Bell Labs)
Amaya
Arachne (DOS)
Ariadna (AMSD Ariadna) (first Russian web browser, discontinued)
AWeb (AmigaOS)
Charon (for Inferno)
Dillo (Small, fast, free, minimalistic, and multi-platform)
Gazelle (from Microsoft Research, OS-like)
IBrowse (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)
Oregano (for RISC_OS)
Planetweb browser (discont. for Dreamcast)
VMS Mosaic (for OpenVMS)
Voyager (AmigaOS)
[edit]Mobile browsers
Main article: Mobile browser
[edit]Text-based
Alynx
ELinks (active version of Links)
Emacs/W3
Links (not currently active)
Lynx
Net-Tamer
w3m
WebbIE
