List of web browsers
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The following is a list of web browsers.
Contents
Historical
Important browsers
In order of release:- WorldWideWeb
- ViolaWWW
- Mosaic
- Netscape Navigator and Netscape Communicator
- Internet Explorer (including Internet Explorer for Mac and Internet Explorer for UNIX)
- Opera
- Mozilla Application Suite
- Mozilla Firefox
- Safari (Apple Computer)
Additional early browsers
- Act
- AMosaic
- Arena
- Cello
- Crystal Atari Browser (CAB)
- CyberDog
- Express
- Grail
- IBM Web Explorer
- MacWeb
- MidasWWW
- MMM
- NetShark
- Oracle PowerBrowser
- Peru
- Qweb
- SlipKnot
- WebRouser
Graphical
Trident-based browsers
The proprietary Trident layout engine was developed by Microsoft for use in their web browser, Internet Explorer.- Internet Explorer
- [Arlington Kiosk Browser]
- AM Browser, (formerly known as Crazy Browser)
- AOL Explorer
- Avant Browser
- Maxthon (formerly known as MyIE2, includes both Gecko and Trident)
- Slim Browser
- NetCaptor
- Netscape Browser (includes both Gecko and Trident)
- Many other Internet Explorer shells
- [Haiseb Browser]
- [SphereXPlorer (3D browser)]
- Yahoo! Browser (or partnership browsers eg. "Verizon Yahoo! Browser"; "BT Yahoo! Browser" etc.)
- iRider
- NeoPlanet
- [Gosurf Browser]
Gecko-based browsers
The open source Gecko layout engine is developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
- [3B] (3D browser)
- Aphrodite
- BackArrow (based on Skipstone)
- Beonex Communicator
- Camino for Mac OS X (formerly Chimera)
- CompuServe
- DocZilla, a SGML browser
- Epiphany, GNOME's current default browser
- Flock (based on Firefox)
- Galeon, GNOME's former default browser
- K-Meleon for Windows
- K-MeleonCCF for Windows (Based on K-Meleon)
- Kazehakase, a very light GTK2 web browser for GNU/Linux
- Madfox (based on Firefox)
- ManyOne
- Mozilla Application Suite
- Mozilla Firefox (formerly Firebird and Phoenix)
- Netscape Browser 8 (includes both Gecko and Trident)
- Netscape (version 6 and newer)
- Orca Browser
- [Orca Browser] ([Avant] + Gecko)
- Salamander
- SeaMonkey
- Skipstone
- [uBrowser] (3D browser)
KHTML and WebKit-based browsers
The open source KHTML layout engine is developed by the KDE project. WebKit is an open-source fork of that engine by Apple Computer.- ABrowse
- Atlantis [link]
- Konqueror
- Net Positive (Later versions only)
- OmniWeb
- Safari
- Shiira
- SkyKruzer
- SunriseBrowser [link]
Browsers for the Java platform
Specialty Browsers (Current)
Browsers Created for enhancements of specific browsing activities.- BrailleSurf (For rendering pages in braille)
- Browsezilla (For discovery of adult content)
- 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)
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
- AWeb
- BrowseX [link]
- Browsezilla
- Charon (for Inferno)
- Chimera (not to be confused with Camino, which previously used the same name) [link]
- Dillo
- Deepnet Explorer - Web + P2P + News Browser [link]
- Emacs/W3
- Espial Escape
- Heatseek
- IBrowse
- iCab
- Kidz CD (web browser for children) [link]
- Mothra (for Plan 9 from Bell Labs)
- NetPositive
- NetSurf (An open source web browser for RISC OS and GTK+ written in C)
- Nintendo DS Browser
- Off By One
- [Offline Downloader]
- Opera (Presto)
- Oregano
- Planetweb browser (discont. for Dreamcast)
- ProSyst mBrowser
- Sleipnir
- [SphereXPlorer] (3D browser)
- [VMS Mosaic] (browser for OpenVMS)
- Voyager
- Website Extractor [link]
- Webster XL [link]
- X-Smiles (experimental)
Mobile browsers
See MicrobrowserText-based
See also
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]
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