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The following is a list of web browsers that are notable.
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Historical
This is a table of personal computer web browsers by year of release of major version. The increased growth of the Internet in the 1990s and 2000s means that current browsers with small market shares have more total users than the entire market early on. For example, 90% market share in 1997 would be roughly 60 million users, but by the start of 2007 9% market share would equate to over 90 million users.[1]
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- 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 [Legacy]. 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.
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Trident shells
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Other software publishers have built browsers and other products around Microsoft's Trident engine. The following browsers are all based on that rendering engine:
Gecko-based
- Camino for Mac OS X (formerly Chimera)[19]
- 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
- Zen Browser
- Firefox for Android (codenamed Fenix)
- Mozilla Application Suite
- Skyfire (for mobile)
- SlimBrowser
- Yahoo! Browser (or partnership browsers e.g. "AT&T Yahoo! Browser"; "Verizon Yahoo! Browser"; "BT Yahoo! Browser", etc.)
Goanna-based
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)
- Microsoft Edge
Gecko-, Trident-, and Blink-based
KHTML-based
Presto-based
- Internet Channel (for Wii console, Opera-based)
- Nintendo DS Browser (Opera-based)
- Opera (for releases up until 12.18[21][22])
WebKit-based
- All browsers for iOS[23]
- Safari
- Arora
- Bolt
- Dolphin Browser
- DuckDuckGo browser for macOS[24]
- Flock since version 3.0
- iCab since version 4
- GNOME Web
- Iris Browser
- Konqueror (version 4 can use WebKit as an alternative to its native KHTML)[25]
- Maxthon from version 3.0 to 5.0
- Midori before acquisition by Astian Foundation
- NetFront
- OmniWeb
- Orion
- Otter Browser
- Origyn Web Browser
- QtWeb
- qutebrowser
- PhantomJS
- Shiira
- SlimBrowser since version 10.0
- Steel (web browser)
- surf
- Uzbl
- Nokia Browser for Symbian
- webOS
- WebPositive
- xombrero
Blink-based
- Chromium
- Amazon Silk
- Arc
- Avast Secure Browser
- Beaker
- Brave
- Cốc Cốc
- Comodo Dragon[26]
- Epic
- Google Chrome (based on Blink since Chrome v. 28)
- JioPages
- Microsoft Edge[27]
- NAVER Whale
- DuckDuckGo for Android and Windows
- Opera[28]
- Opera GX
- Puffin Browser
- Qt WebEngine
- qutebrowser (Blink backend mostly stable)
- Redcore
- Rockmelt
- SalamWeb
- Sleipnir
- SRWare Iron
- Torch
- Ungoogled-chromium
- Vivaldi
- Yandex Browser
EdgeHTML-based
For Java platform
- BOLT Browser
- HotJava
- Opera Mini (only the Android version is actively developed as of 2022)
- ThunderHawk
Specialty browsers
Browsers created for enhancements of specific browsing activities.
Current
- 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 a BitTorrent addon)
- 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)
- SpaceTime (search the web in 3D)
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.
Others
- Abaco (for Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Linux[30])
- Amaya
- Arachne (for DOS and Linux)
- Arena
- Ariadna (AMSD Ariadna) (first Russian web browser)
- AWeb (AmigaOS)
- Baidu Mobile Browser
- 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
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