List of web browsers explained

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

Layout engines

• Gecko is developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
  • Goanna is a fork of Gecko developed by Moonchild Productions.
• Servo is an experimental web browser layout engine being developed cooperatively by Mozilla and Samsung. In 2020 the engine's development was transferred to the Linux Foundation.
• Presto was developed by Opera Software for use in Opera. Development stopped as Opera transitioned to Blink.
• Trident is developed by Microsoft for use in the Windows versions of Internet Explorer 4 to Internet Explorer 11.
  • EdgeHTML is the engine developed by Microsoft for Edge. It is a largely rewritten fork of Trident with all legacy code removed.
• Tasman was developed by Microsoft for use in Internet Explorer 5 for Macintosh.
• KHTML was developed by the KDE project but has since been discontinued.
  • WebKit is a fork of KHTML by Apple Inc. used in Apple Safari, and formerly in Chromium and Google Chrome.
    • Blink is a 2013 fork of WebKit's WebCore component by Google used in Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera, and Vivaldi.^[1]

Graphical

Current and maintained projects are listed in boldface.

Other software publishers have built browsers and other products around Microsoft's Trident engine. The following browsers are all based on that rendering engine:

• 360 Secure Browser
  • • • AOL Explorer Deepnet Explorer GreenBrowser Internet Explorer
        • MediaBrowser MSN Explorer NeoPlanet NetCaptor QQ Browser

Gecko-based

• Camino for Mac OS X (formerly Chimera)^[2]
• Conkeror, (keyboard-driven browser)
• Galeon, (GNOME's old default browser)
• K-Meleon (Windows)
  • K-MeleonCCF ME (for Windows based on K-Meleon core, mostly written in Lua)
  • K-Ninja for Windows (based on K-Meleon)
• MicroB (for Maemo)
• Minimo (for mobile)
• Mozilla Firefox (formerly Firebird and Phoenix, developed by the Mozilla foundation)
  • AT&T Pogo (based on Firefox)
  • Cliqz (Firefox fork)
  • CometBird (an optimized fork of Firefox allowing video downloads)
  • Comodo IceDragon (Firefox-based web browser for Windows with privacy and performance enhancements developed by Comodo)
  • Flock (was based on Firefox until version 2.6.1, and based on Chromium thereafter)
  • Floorp (based on Firefox with increased customization options)
  • Iceweasel (Debian's Firefox rebrand)
    • Swiftweasel (processor-optimised builds based on Iceweasel)
  • GNU IceCat (GNU's fork of Firefox)
  • LibreWolf
  • Netscape Browser 8 to Netscape Navigator 9 (discontinued)
  • TenFourFox (Firefox port to PowerPC versions of Mac OS X)
  • Timberwolf (AmigaOS' Firefox rebrand)
  • Tor Browser (privacy enabled browser)
    • Mullvad Browser (based on Tor Browser)
  • Swiftfox (processor-optimised builds based on Firefox)
  • Waterfox (Firefox-based web browser for Windows, macOS, and Linux)
  • xB Browser (formerly XeroBank Browser and Torpark), portable browser for anonymous browsing, originally based on Firefox
• Firefox for mobile (codenamed Fennec)
  • • Mozilla Application Suite Beonex Communicator (separate branch, based on Mozilla Application Suite)
  • Classilla (an updated fork of the Suite to Mac OS 9)
  • Gnuzilla (GNU's fork)
  • Netscape (Netscape 6 to 7, based on Mozilla)
  • SeaMonkey (successor to Mozilla Application Suite)
    • Iceape (Debian's Seamonkey rebrand)
• Skyfire (for mobile)
• SlimBrowser
• Yahoo! Browser (or partnership browsers e.g. "AT&T Yahoo! Browser"; "Verizon Yahoo! Browser"; "BT Yahoo! Browser", etc.)

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:

• K-Meleon with the IE Tab extension
• Mozilla Firefox with the IE Tab extension
• Netscape Browser 8

Webkit- and Trident-based

• GNOME Web
• Maxthon (up until version 4.2)
• QQ browser

Blink- and Trident-based

• Baidu Browser
• Maxthon (since version 4.2)

Gecko-, Trident-, and Blink-based

Browsers that can use Trident, Gecko and Blink include:

• Lunascape^[3]

KHTML-based

• Konqueror
• Konqueror Embedded

Presto-based

• Internet Channel (for Wii console, Opera-based)
• Nintendo DS Browser (Opera-based)
• Opera (for releases up until 12.18^{[4] [5]})

WebKit-based

Status	Browser
	Aloha Browser (iOS and Android)
experimental	Amazon Kindle NetFront Browser
discontinued
discontinued
	Google Chrome for iOS
	Dolphin Browser (Android and Bada)
discontinued	Dooble (qtwebkit version discontinued) (up to Version 1.56)
	DuckDuckGo for Mac^[6]
	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
	Konqueror (version 4 can use WebKit as an alternative to its native KHTML)^[7]
	Maxthon (version 3.0 to 5.0. Since version 6 Maxthon uses Chromium^[8])
	Midori (versions released after acquisition in 2019 use Gecko)
	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
	qutebrowser (a Blink-based backend is currently used by default)
discontinued	Rekonq
	Safari
discontinued	PhantomJS (a headless browser)
discontinued
discontinued	SlimBoat^[9]
discontinued
	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

Blink-based

• Chromium
  • Amazon Silk
  • Arc
  • Avast Secure Browser
  • Beaker
  • Brave
  • Cốc Cốc
  • Comodo Dragon^[10]
  • Epic
  • Google Chrome (based on Blink since Chrome v. 28)
  • JioPages
  • Microsoft Edge^[11]
  • NAVER Whale
  • Opera^[12]
  • Opera GX
  • Puffin Browser
  • qutebrowser (Blink backend mostly stable)
  • Redcore
  • RockMelt
  • SalamWeb
  • Sleipnir
  • SRWare Iron
  • Torch
  • Ungoogled-chromium
  • Vivaldi
  • Yandex Browser
• Qt WebEngine
  • Dooble (from Version 2.2)
  • Falkon

EdgeHTML-based

• Microsoft Edge (formerly using EdgeHTML, now using Blink)^[13]

For Java platform

• • • BOLT Browser HotJava Opera Mini
• ThunderHawk

Specialty browsers

See also: Augmented browsing, List of augmented browsing software and Site-specific browser.

Browsers created for enhancements of specific browsing activities.

Current

• SpaceTime (Search the web in 3D)
• ZAC Browser (For children with autism, autism spectrum disorders such as Asperger syndrome, pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), and PDD-NOS)

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.

• • • AMosaic IBM WebExplorer Internet Explorer 1.x
      • • Internet in a Box Mosaic-CK Netscape Spyglass Mosaic VMS Mosaic

Others

• Abaco (for Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Linux^[14])
  • Amaya Arachne (for DOS and Linux)
  • Arena Ariadna (AMSD Ariadna) (first Russian web browser)
• AWeb (AmigaOS)
• Baidu Mobile Browser
• Charon (for Inferno)
• Dillo (for lower-end computers)
• DR-WebSpyder (for DOS)
• Embrowser (for DOS)
• Flow browser
• Gazelle (from Microsoft Research, OS-like)
• IBrowse (for AmigaOS)
• Ladybird (from SerenityOS)
• Mothra (for Plan 9 from Bell Labs)
• NetPositive (for BeOS)
• NetSurf (an open source web browser originally for RISC OS and GTK, e.g. Linux, Windows and more platforms, written in C)
• Phoenix, a browser based on tkWWW
• Planetweb browser (for Dreamcast)
• Qihoo 360 mobile browsers
• tkWWW, based on Tcl
• Voyager (for AmigaOS)

Mobile browsers

See main article: Mobile browser.

• Amazon Silk
• Apple Safari
• Arc
• Brave
• Dolphin browser
• Firefox Focus
• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Edge
• Mozilla Firefox
• Opera Mobile
• Puffin Browser
• QQ browser
• Samsung Internet
• UC Browser
• Vivaldi

Text-based

See main article: Text-based web browser.

• Emacs/W3
• EWW
• Line Mode Browser
• Links
  • ELinks
• Lynx
• w3m

See also

• History of the web browser
• Timeline of web browsers
• Comparison of web browsers
• Comparison of browser engines
• List of search engines
• List of web browsers for Unix and Unix-like operating systems
• Usage share of web browsers
• Browser wars

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).
• Michael Bernadi, DOS Applications for Internet Use (2006).

Notes and References

1. Web site: Google going its own way, forking WebKit rendering engine . April 3, 2013 . Ars Technica . 4 April 2013.
2. http://caminobrowser.org Camino reaches its end
3. Web site: Have it all: Lunascape, the browser with three engines . CNET News . 2008-11-24 . 2010-05-20 . October 25, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121025133300/http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10105896-2.html . dead .
4. Web site: 300 million users and move to WebKit . Opera Developer News.
5. News: Surprise: Opera 12.18 has been released – gHacks Tech News. 2016-02-16. gHacks Technology News. 2017-11-03. en-US.
6. Web site: Introducing DuckDuckGo for Mac: A Private, Fast, and Secure Browsing App. April 12, 2022.
7. Web site: Projects/WebKit/Part — KDE TechBase. 2010-03-30. KDE TechBase.
8. Web site: Maxthon Browser. April 6, 2022. February 11, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210211062458/https://www.maxthon.com/mx6/changelog/. dead.
9. Web site: Slimboat . slimboat.com . 11 February 2015.
10. Web site: JoWa. 2 May 2014. Blink, since v. 28. 21 Apr 2017. Comodo Group, Inc.. March 17, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160317110435/https://forums.comodo.com/news-announcements-feedback-cd/comodo-dragon-33-vs-opera-20-vs-firefox-29-t104231.0.html;msg757861#msg757861. dead.
11. Web site: Microsoft Edge: Making the web better through more open source collaboration . Microsoft Windows Blog . December 6, 2018 . Microsoft . 7 December 2018.
12. Web site: A first peek at Opera 15 for Computers. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130607164906/http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/2013/05/28/a-first-peek-at-opera-15-for-computers. June 7, 2013. 2013-06-24. Opera.
13. Web site: 20 October 2020. The new Microsoft Edge is now mandatory in Windows 10 20H2. 28 October 2020. News, Reviews and Technical Support. BleepingComputer.
14. Web site: Archived copy . February 23, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160506121330/http://lab-fgb.com/abaco/tar/abaco-20080209-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz . May 6, 2016 . dead . mdy-all .