Tuesday, November 24, 2009

List of web browsers

Notable browsers:

WorldWideWeb, February 26, 1991
Mosaic, April 22, 1993
Netscape Navigator and Netscape Communicator, October 13, 1994
Internet Explorer (August 1995)
Opera, 1996, see History of the Opera Internet suite
Mozilla Navigator, June 5, 2002[13]
Safari, January 7, 2003
Mozilla Firefox, November 9, 2004
Google Chrome, September 2, 2008

Notable layout engines:
Trident was developed by Microsoft for use in the Windows version of their web browser, Internet Explorer 4, and included up to Internet Explorer 8.
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 an open-source fork of KHTML by Apple Inc..
Presto is developed by Opera Software.

Graphical

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
MSN Explorer
NeoPlanet
NetCaptor (discontinued)
iRider
RealPlayer
Runecats Explorer
Smart Bro
Teega
Tencent Traveler
UltraBrowser
Web visions
WebbIE
TheWorld Browser
Yahoo! Browser (or partnership browsers eg. "AT&T Yahoo! Browser"; "Verizon Yahoo! Browser"; "BT Yahoo! Browser" etc.)

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)
Galeon, GNOME's old default browser (discontinued)
K-Meleon for Windows
K-Ninja for Windows (based on K-Meleon; discontinued)
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
GNU IceCat, GNU's free 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)

Gecko- and Trident-based browsers

Browsers that use both Trident and Gecko include:
Lunascape
Maxthon (formerly known as MyIE2)
Mozilla Firefox with the IE Tab extension
Netscape Browser 8 (discontinued)
Sleipnir

KHTML-based browsers:
Konqueror
Konqueror Embedded

WebKit-based browsers:
ABrowse
Web Browser for Android (mobile device platform)
Arora
Google Chrome
iCab (version 4 uses WebKit; earlier versions used its own rendering engine)
Iris Browser
Midori
OmniWeb
Safari
Shiira
Skipstone
Sputnik for MorphOS (based on S60 WebCore)
SRWare Iron
Stainless
Sunrise
TeaShark
uzbl (A minimalist browser that strictly follows the Unix philosophy)
Web Browser for S60 (for mobile)
WebOS, used in the Palm Pre mobile

Gecko- and WebKit-based browsers:
Epiphany, GNOME's current default browser
Kazehakase, a very light GTK+ 2 web browser for Linux
Skipstone

Presto-based browsers:
Internet Channel (Web browser for the Wii console) (Opera powered)
Nintendo DS Browser (Opera Powered)
Opera

Browsers for the Java platform:
Bitstream ThunderHawk
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.

Specialty browsers: (Browsers created for enhancements of specific browsing activities)

Current:
Flock (To enhance social networking, blogging, photosharing, and RSS newsreading)
Image Xplorer (Designed for the viewing, downloading, and printing of images only)
Kirix Strata (Designed for data analytics)
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.)

Discontinued:
AOL (For use with their proprietary intranet)
Ghostzilla (Blends into the GUI to hide activity)
Prodigy Classic (Executable only within the application)

Other browsers:
3B (3D browser)
Abaco (for Plan 9 from Bell Labs)
Amaya
Arachne (DOS)
AWeb (AmigaOS)
Charon (for Inferno)
Dillo (Small, fast, free, minimalistic, and multi-platform)
Emacs/W3
Gazelle (from Microsoft Research, OS-like)
Gollum browser
Html Viewer 3 (uses Tkhtml as layout engine)
IBrowse (AmigaOS)
Mothra (for Plan 9 from Bell Labs)
NetPositive
NetSurf (An open source web browser for RISC OS and GTK+ written in C)
Oregano
Planetweb browser (discont. for Dreamcast)
VMS Mosaic
Voyager (AmigaOS)
Lataza Browser

Mobile browsers:
Main article: Mobile browser

Text-based:
Alynx
edbrowse (Line-mode browser)
ELinks (active version of Links)
Emacs/W3
Links (not currently active)
Lynx
Net-Tamer
w3m
WebbIE

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