This is a comparison of both historical and current web browsers based on developer, engine, platform(s), releases, license, and cost.
Basic general information about the browsers. Browsers listed on a light purple background are discontinued. Platforms with a yellow background have limited support.
| Browser | Developer | Layout engine | Platform | Latest release | License | Cost (USD) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version | Date | |||||||
| Aloha | Aloha Mobile LTD | Blink | Android | 6.4.0 | 2024-08-13 | GPL-3.0-or-later | No cost | |
| iOS | 5.14 | 2024-08-08 | ||||||
| Windows | 3.0.0.0 | 2024-08-02 | ||||||
| macOS | 3.0.0.0 | 2024-08-13 | ||||||
| Amaya (discontinued) | W3C, INRIA | Custom | rowspan="3" | |||||
| AOL Explorer (discontinued) | America Online, Inc | Trident | ||||||
| Arora (discontinued) | Benjamin C. Meyer | WebKit | rowspan="6" | |||||
| Avast Secure Browser | Avast Software | Blink | rowspan="4" | |||||
| Basilisk | Basilisk-Dev | Goanna | rowspan="3" | |||||
| Brave | Brave Software Inc. | Blink | rowspan="5" | |||||
| Camino (discontinued) | The Camino Project | Gecko | ||||||
| Chrome | Blink | rowspan="5" | ||||||
| Chromium | The Chromium Project | Blink | (built nightly) | |||||
| Cliqz (discontinued) | Cliqz GmbH | Gecko | rowspan="4" | |||||
| Comodo Dragon | Comodo Group | Blink | ||||||
| Comodo IceDragon (discontinued) | Comodo Group | Gecko | ||||||
| Dillo | The Dillo team | Custom | rowspan="5" | |||||
| Dooble | Dooble Team | Blink | rowspan="5" | |||||
| Edge | Microsoft | EdgeHTML Blink | rowspan="5" | |||||
| ELinks | Baudis, Fonseca, et al. | Fork of Links | rowspan="4" | |||||
| Falkon | David Rosca | Blink | rowspan="6" | |||||
| Firefox | Mozilla Foundation | Gecko Gecko w/Servo | rowspan="7" | |||||
| Flock (discontinued) | Flock Inc | WebKit | rowspan="4" | |||||
| Galeon (discontinued) | Marco Pesenti Gritti | Gecko | rowspan="4" | |||||
| GNOME Web (Epiphany) | Marco Pesenti Gritti | WebKit | rowspan="4" | |||||
| GNU IceCat | GNU | Gecko | rowspan="4" | |||||
| iCab | Alexander Clauss | WebKit | LGPL | |||||
| Internet Explorer (discontinued) | Microsoft, Spyglass | Trident | ||||||
| Internet Explorer for Mac (discontinued) | Microsoft | Tasman | ||||||
| K-Meleon | Dorian, KKO, et al. | Goanna | ||||||
| Konqueror | KDE | KHTML WebKit | rowspan="5" | |||||
| Ladybird | Andreas Kling et al. | LibWeb (Custom) | rowspan="6" | |||||
| Links | Patocka, et al. | Custom | rowspan="6" | |||||
| Lunascape | Lunascape Corporation | Gecko Trident WebKit | rowspan="4" | |||||
| Lynx | Montulli, Grobe, Rezac, et al. | Fork of libwww | rowspan="6" | |||||
| Maxthon | Maxthon International Limited | Blink Trident | rowspan="5" | |||||
| Midori | Christian Dywan, et al. | WebKit | rowspan="4" | |||||
| Mosaic (discontinued) | Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, NCSA | Custom | ||||||
| Mozilla Application Suite (discontinued) | Mozilla Foundation | Gecko | ||||||
| Netscape (v.6–7) (discontinued) | Netscape Communications Corporation, AOL | Gecko | 7.2 | Tri-license | ||||
| Netscape Browser (v.8) (discontinued) | Mercurial Communications for AOL | Gecko Trident | Tri-license | |||||
| Netscape Communicator (v.4) (discontinued) | Netscape Communications | Fork of Mosaic | ||||||
| Netscape Navigator (v.1–4) (discontinued) | Netscape Communications | Fork of Mosaic | 4.0.8 | |||||
| Netscape Navigator 9 (discontinued) | Netscape Communications (division of AOL) | Gecko | Tri-license | |||||
| NetSurf | The NetSurf Developers | Custom | rowspan="6" | |||||
| OmniWeb (discontinued) | The Omni Group | WebKit | LGPL | |||||
| Opera | Opera Software | Presto Blink | ||||||
| Opera Mobile | Opera Software | 63.3.3216.58675 | 2021-04-23 | rowspan="4" | ||||
| 3.1.0 | 2021-06-10 | |||||||
| 12.0.22 | ||||||||
| 10.0 | ||||||||
| Origyn Web Browser | Sand-labs | WebKit | 1.25[1] | 2016-04-02 | rowspan="3" | |||
| 1.23r5[2] | 2022-01-02 | |||||||
| 1.24[3] | 2014-04-15 | |||||||
| Pale Moon | Moonchild Productions | Goanna | rowspan="2" | |||||
| qutebrowser | Florian Bruhin | WebKit QtWebEngine | rowspan="4" | |||||
| Safari | Apple Inc. | WebKit | rowspan="2" | |||||
| SalamWeb | Salam WebTechnologies DMCC | Blink | rowspan="4" | |||||
| SeaMonkey | SeaMonkey Council | Gecko | rowspan="5" | |||||
| Shiira (discontinued) | Happy Macintosh Developing Team | WebKit | ||||||
| Sleipnir | Fenrir Inc. | Blink Trident | rowspan="4" | |||||
| SRWare Iron | SRWare | Blink | rowspan="4" | |||||
| 2022-04-29 | ||||||||
| surf | suckless.org | WebKit | rowspan="4" | |||||
| Torch Browser (discontinued) | Torch Media | Blink | rowspan="2" | |||||
| Uzbl (discontinued) | Dieter Plaetinck | WebKit | ||||||
| Vivaldi | Vivaldi Technologies | Blink | rowspan="4" | |||||
| Waterfox | Alex Kontos | Gecko | rowspan="4" | |||||
| WebPositive | Haiku | WebKit | 1.9.11 [4] | 2024-02-05 | rowspan="1" | |||
| WorldWideWeb (Nexus) (discontinued) | Tim Berners-Lee | Custom | ||||||
| w3m | Akinori Ito | Custom | rowspan="5" | |||||
| Yandex Browser | Yandex | Blink | rowspan="5" | |||||
| Browser | Developer | Layout engine | Platform | Latest release | License | Cost (USD) | ||
| Version | Date | |||||||
Browsers are compiled to run on certain operating systems, without emulation.
This list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common OSes today (e.g. Netscape Navigator was also developed for OS/2 at a time when macOS 10 did not exist) but does not include the growing appliance segment (for example, the Opera web browser has gained a leading role for use in mobile phones, smartphones, the Nintendo DS and Wii, and Personal Digital Assistants, and is also used in some smart TVs).Both the web browser and OS means most recent version, example: Windows 11 with Internet Explorer 11.
| Browser | Windows | macOS | Linux | BSD | Other Unix | Android | iOS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | ||||||||
| AOL Explorer | ||||||||
| Arora | ||||||||
| Avast Secure Browser | ||||||||
| Basilisk | [5] | |||||||
| Brave | ||||||||
| Camino | ||||||||
| Cliqz | ||||||||
| class="table-rh" | Chrome | |||||||
| Chromium | ||||||||
| Dillo | ||||||||
| Dooble | ||||||||
| class="table-rh" | Edge | |||||||
| ELinks | ||||||||
| Falkon | ||||||||
| class="table-rh" | Firefox | |||||||
| class="table-rh" | Firefox ESR | [6] | ||||||
| Flock | ||||||||
| Galeon | ||||||||
| GNOME Web | ||||||||
| GNU IceCat | ||||||||
| iCab | ||||||||
| Internet Explorer | ||||||||
| K-Meleon | ||||||||
| Konqueror | ||||||||
| Ladybird | ||||||||
| Links | ||||||||
| Lunascape | ||||||||
| Lynx | ||||||||
| Maxthon | ||||||||
| Midori | ||||||||
| NetSurf | ||||||||
| OmniWeb | ||||||||
| Opera | ||||||||
| Pale Moon | ||||||||
| qutebrowser | ||||||||
| Safari | ||||||||
| SalamWeb | ||||||||
| SeaMonkey | ||||||||
| Shiira | ||||||||
| Sleipnir | ||||||||
| SRWare Iron | ||||||||
| surf | ||||||||
| Torch Browser | ||||||||
| Vivaldi | ||||||||
| WorldWideWeb | ||||||||
| w3m | ||||||||
| Browser | Windows | macOS | Linux | BSD | Other Unix | Android | iOS |
Information about what common browser features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons).
| Browser | Bookmark management | Download management | Password managing | History | Open tabs from previous sessions | Form managing | Spell checking | Search engine toolbar | Per-site security configuration | Privacy mode | Auto-updater | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | ||||||||||||
| AOL Explorer | ||||||||||||
| Arora | ||||||||||||
| Avast Secure Browser | ||||||||||||
| Basilisk | ||||||||||||
| Brave | ||||||||||||
| Camino | ||||||||||||
| Cliqz | ||||||||||||
| Chrome | [7] | |||||||||||
| Chromium | ||||||||||||
| Dillo | ||||||||||||
| Dooble | ||||||||||||
| class="table-rh" | Edge | |||||||||||
| ELinks | ||||||||||||
| Falkon | ||||||||||||
| class="table-rh" | Firefox | |||||||||||
| Flock | ||||||||||||
| Galeon | ||||||||||||
| GNOME Web | ||||||||||||
| iCab | ||||||||||||
| Internet Explorer | ||||||||||||
| Internet Explorer for Mac | ||||||||||||
| K-Meleon | ||||||||||||
| Konqueror | ||||||||||||
| Links | ||||||||||||
| Lunascape | [8] | |||||||||||
| Lynx | ||||||||||||
| Maxthon | ||||||||||||
| Midori | ||||||||||||
| Mosaic | ||||||||||||
| Mozilla | ||||||||||||
| Netscape | ||||||||||||
| Netscape Browser | ||||||||||||
| Netscape Navigator | ||||||||||||
| Netscape Navigator 9 | ||||||||||||
| NetSurf | ||||||||||||
| OmniWeb | ||||||||||||
| Opera | ||||||||||||
| Pale Moon | ||||||||||||
| Safari | ||||||||||||
| SalamWeb | ||||||||||||
| SeaMonkey | ||||||||||||
| Shiira | ||||||||||||
| Sleipnir | ||||||||||||
| SRWare Iron | ||||||||||||
| surf | ||||||||||||
| Torch Browser | ||||||||||||
| Vivaldi | ||||||||||||
| WorldWideWeb | ||||||||||||
| w3m | ||||||||||||
| Browser | Bookmark management | Download management | Password managing | History | Open tabs from previous sessions | Form managing | Spell checking | Search engine toolbar | Per-site security configuration | Privacy mode | Auto-updater |
Information about what common accessibility features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons). Browsers that do not support pop-ups have no need for pop-up blocking abilities, so that field is marked as N/A.
| Browser | Tabbed browsing | Pop-up blocking | Auto-play blocking | Incremental search | Ad filtering | Page zooming | Full text search of history | Content-modal dialogs | Canvas fingerprinting protection | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | ||||||||||
| AOL Explorer | ||||||||||
| Arora | ||||||||||
| Avast Secure Browser | ||||||||||
| Basilisk | ||||||||||
| Brave | ||||||||||
| Camino | ||||||||||
| Cliqz | ||||||||||
| Chrome | [9] | [10] | [11] | |||||||
| Chromium | ||||||||||
| Dillo | ||||||||||
| Dooble | ||||||||||
| class="table-rh" | Edge | |||||||||
| ELinks | ||||||||||
| Falkon | ||||||||||
| class="table-rh" | Firefox | |||||||||
| Flock | ||||||||||
| Galeon | ||||||||||
| GNOME Web | ||||||||||
| iCab | ||||||||||
| Internet Explorer | ||||||||||
| Internet Explorer for Mac | ||||||||||
| K-Meleon | ||||||||||
| Konqueror | ||||||||||
| Links | ||||||||||
| Lunascape | ||||||||||
| Lynx | ||||||||||
| Maxthon | ||||||||||
| Midori | ||||||||||
| Mosaic | ||||||||||
| Mozilla | ||||||||||
| Netscape | ||||||||||
| Netscape Browser | ||||||||||
| Netscape Navigator | ||||||||||
| Netscape Navigator 9 | ||||||||||
| NetSurf | ||||||||||
| OmniWeb | ||||||||||
| Opera | ||||||||||
| Pale Moon | ||||||||||
| Safari | [12] [13] | |||||||||
| SeaMonkey | [14] | |||||||||
| Shiira | ||||||||||
| Sleipnir | ||||||||||
| SRWare Iron | ||||||||||
| surf | ||||||||||
| Torch Browser | ||||||||||
| WorldWideWeb | ||||||||||
| w3m | ||||||||||
| Browser | Tabbed browsing | Pop-up blocking | Auto-play blocking | Incremental search | Ad filtering | Page zooming | Full text search of history | Content-modal dialogs | Canvas fingerprinting protection |
Information about what common accessibility features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons).
Information about what web standards, and technologies the browsers support, except for JavaScript. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.
Information about what web standards, and technologies the browsers support. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.
Information about what JavaScript technologies the browsers support. Note that although XPath is used by XSLT, it is only considered here if it can be accessed using JavaScript. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality, e.g., Babel.
| Browser | JavaScript | ECMAScript 3 | DOM 1 | DOM 2 | DOM 3 | XPath | XMLHttpRequest | Rich editing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | |||||||||
| AOL Explorer | |||||||||
| Avast Secure Browser | |||||||||
| Basilisk | |||||||||
| Camino | |||||||||
| Chrome | |||||||||
| Dillo | |||||||||
| class="table-rh" | Edge | ||||||||
| ELinks | |||||||||
| Falkon | |||||||||
| class="table-rh" | Firefox | ||||||||
| Flock | |||||||||
| Galeon | |||||||||
| GNU IceCat | See Firefox ESR | See Firefox ESR | See Firefox ESR | See Firefox ESR | See Firefox ESR | See Firefox ESR | See Firefox ESR | ||
| iCab | |||||||||
| Internet Explorer | |||||||||
| Internet Explorer for Mac | |||||||||
| K-Meleon | |||||||||
| Konqueror | |||||||||
| Links | |||||||||
| Lynx | |||||||||
| Maxthon | |||||||||
| Midori | |||||||||
| Mosaic | |||||||||
| Mozilla | |||||||||
| Netscape | |||||||||
| Netscape Browser | |||||||||
| Netscape Navigator | |||||||||
| Netscape Navigator 9 | |||||||||
| NetSurf | |||||||||
| OmniWeb | |||||||||
| Opera | |||||||||
| Pale Moon | |||||||||
| Safari | |||||||||
| SeaMonkey | |||||||||
| Shiira | |||||||||
| Sleipnir | |||||||||
| surf | |||||||||
| Web | |||||||||
| WorldWideWeb | |||||||||
| w3m | |||||||||
| Browser | JavaScript | ECMAScript 3 | DOM 1 | DOM 2 | DOM 3 | XPath | XMLHttpRequest | Rich editing |
See what parts of DOM your browser supports
Information about what Internet protocols the browsers support (in addition to HTTP that all (modern) browser should and do fully support). External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.
More than half of web traffic from Chrome to Google's servers is handled by QUIC protocol, not TCP (or HTTP/1). Chrome, Opera, and Firefox have support for QUIC, and HTTP/3, while Safari is testing it for a subset of users.