List of web browsers

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Timeline representing the history of various web browsers

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

Historical

A rough estimate of usage share by percent of layout engines of web browsers as of Q2 2009, see usage share of web browsers.

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See also: Timeline of web browsers

This is a table of personal computer web browsers by year of release of major version, in chronological order, with the approximate number of worldwide Internet users in millions. Note that Internet user data is related to the entire market, not the versions released in that year. 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]

Year Web browsers Internet users
(in millions)[1][2][3][4]
1991 WorldWideWeb (Nexus) 4
1992 ViolaWWW, Erwise, MidasWWW, MacWWW (Samba) 7
1993 Mosaic, Cello,[5] Lynx 2.0, Arena, AMosaic 1.0 10–14
1994 IBM WebExplorer, Netscape Navigator, SlipKnot 1.0, MacWeb, IBrowse, Agora (Argo), Minuet 20–25
1995 Internet Explorer 1, Netscape Navigator 2.0, OmniWeb, UdiWWW,[6] Internet Explorer 2, Grail 16–44
1996 Arachne 1.0, Internet Explorer 3.0, Netscape Navigator 3.0, Opera 2.0,
PowerBrowser 1.5,[7] Cyberdog, Amaya 0.9,[8] AWeb, Voyager		 36–77
1997 Internet Explorer 4.0, Netscape Navigator 4.0, Netscape Communicator 4.0, Opera 3.0,[9] Amaya 1.0[8] 70–120
1998 iCab, Mozilla 147–188
1999 Amaya 2.0,[8] Mozilla M3, Internet Explorer 5.0 248–280
2000 Konqueror, Netscape 6, Opera 4,[10] Opera 5,[11] K-Meleon 0.2, Amaya 3.0,[8] Amaya 4.0[8] 361–413
2001 Internet Explorer 6, Galeon 1.0, Opera 6,[12] Amaya 5.0[8] 499–513
2002 Netscape 7, Mozilla 1.0, Phoenix 0.1, Links 2.0, Amaya 6.0,[8] Amaya 7.0[8] 587–662
2003 Opera 7,[13] Safari 1.0, Epiphany 1.0, Amaya 8.0[8] 719–778
2004 Firefox 1.0, Netscape Browser, OmniWeb 5.0 817–910
2005 Safari 2.0, Netscape Browser 8.0, Opera 8,[14] Epiphany 1.8, Amaya 9.0,[8] AOL Explorer 1.0, Maxthon 1.0, Shiira 1.0 1018–1029
2006 SeaMonkey 1.0, K-Meleon 1.0, Galeon 2.0, Camino 1.0, Firefox 2.0, Avant 11, iCab 3, Opera 9,[15] Internet Explorer 7 1093–1157
2007 Maxthon 2.0, Netscape Navigator 9, NetSurf 1.0, Flock 1.0, Safari 3.0, Conkeror 1319–1373
2008 Konqueror 4, Safari 3.1, Opera 9.5,[16] Firefox 3, Amaya 10.0,[8] Flock 2, Chrome 1, Amaya 11.0[8] 1562–1574
2009 Internet Explorer 8, Chrome 2–3, Safari 4, Opera 10,[17] SeaMonkey 2, Camino 2, Firefox 3.5, surf 1743–1802
2010 K-Meleon 1.5.4, Firefox 3.6, Chrome 4–8, Opera 10.50,[18] Safari 5, xxxterm, Opera 11 1971–2034
2011 Chrome 9–16, Firefox 4-9, Internet Explorer 9, Maxthon 3.0, SeaMonkey 2.1–2.6, Opera 11.50, Safari 5.1 2264–2272
2012 Chrome 17–23, Firefox 10–17, Internet Explorer 10, Maxthon 4.0, SeaMonkey 2.7-2.14, Opera 12, Safari 6 2497–2511
2013 Chrome 24–31, Firefox 18–26, Internet Explorer 11, SeaMonkey 2.15-2.23, Opera 15–18, Safari 7 2712
2014 Chrome 32–39, Firefox 27–34, SeaMonkey 2.24-2.30, Opera 19–26, Safari 8 3079
2015 Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi

Layout engines

Graphical

Current and maintained projects are listed in boldface.

Trident shells

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

  • Basilisk – similar to Pale Moon, but with the interface of Firefox 29–56 and a few other differences, discontinued in December of 2021
  • 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
  • White Stare - a fork of Pale Moon for macOS

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
discontinued Arora
discontinued BOLT browser
Google Chrome for iOS
Dolphin Browser (Android and Bada)
Dooble (qtwebkit version discontinued) (up to Version 1.56)
Duckduckgo for Mac[25]
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 Iris Browser
Konqueror (version 4 can use WebKit as an alternative to its native KHTML)[26]
Maxthon (version 3.0 to 5.0. Since version 6 Maxthon uses Chromium[27])
Microsoft Edge for iOS
Nintendo 3DS NetFront Browser NX
discontinued OmniWeb
Otter Browser (uses Blink and WebKit; aims to recreate the features of old Opera)
discontinued OWB
discontinued QtWeb
qutebrowser (a Blink-based backend is currently used by default)
Roccat Browser
discontinued Rekonq
Safari
discontinued PhantomJS (a headless browser)
discontinued Shiira
discontinued SlimBoat[28]
discontinued Steel for Android
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 xombrero

Blink-based

EdgeHTML-based

For Java platform

Specialty browsers

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

Browsers created for enhancements of specific browsing activities.

Current

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.

Others

Mobile browsers

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Main article: Mobile browser

Text-based

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Main article: Text-based web browser

See also

References

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