List of web browsers explained

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

Layout engines

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:

Gecko-based

Goanna-based

Gecko- and Trident-based

Browsers that use both Trident and Gecko include:

Webkit- and Trident-based

Blink- and Trident-based

Gecko-, Trident-, and Blink-based

Browsers that can use Trident, Gecko and Blink include:

KHTML-based

Presto-based

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
discontinuedOmniWeb
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

EdgeHTML-based

For Java platform

Specialty browsers

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

Browsers created for enhancements of specific browsing activities.

Current

Discontinued

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

Mobile browsers

See main article: Mobile browser.

Text-based

See main article: Text-based web browser.

See also

External links

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 .