List of web browsers

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The following is a list of notable web browsers.

Timeline representing the history of various web browsers.

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[edit] 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.
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]
1991 WorldWideWeb (Nexus) 4
1992 ViolaWWW, Erwise, MidasWWW, MacWWW (Samba) 7
1993 Mosaic, Cello,[3] Lynx 2.0, Arena, AMosaic 1.0 10
1994 IBM WebExplorer, Netscape Navigator, SlipKnot 1.0, MacWeb, IBrowse, Agora (Argo), Minuet 21
1995 Internet Explorer 1, Netscape Navigator 2.0, OmniWeb, UdiWWW,[4] Internet Explorer 2, Grail 16-40
1996 Arachne 1.0, Internet Explorer 3.0, Netscape Navigator 3.0, Opera 2.0,
PowerBrowser 1.5,[5] Cyberdog, Amaya 0.9,[6] AWeb, Voyager		 36-74
1997 Internet Explorer 4.0, Netscape Navigator 4.0, Netscape Communicator 4.0, Opera 3.0,[7] Amaya 1.0[6] 70-119
1998 iCab, Mozilla 147-186
1999 Amaya 2.0,[6] Mozilla M3, Internet Explorer 5.0 248-279
2000 Konqueror, Netscape 6, Opera 4,[8] Opera 5,[9] K-Meleon 0.2, Amaya 3.0,[6] Amaya 4.0[6] 361-393
2001 Internet Explorer 6, Galeon 1.0, Opera 6,[10] Amaya 5.0[6] 513-494
2002 Netscape 7, Mozilla 1.0, Phoenix 0.1, Links 2.0, Amaya 6.0,[6] Amaya 7.0[6] 587-673
2003 Opera 7,[11] Safari 1.0, Epiphany 1.0, Amaya 8.0[6] 719-783
2004 Firefox 1.0, Netscape Browser, OmniWeb 5.0 817-909
2005 Safari 2.0, Netscape Browser 8.0, Opera 8,[12] Epiphany 1.8, Amaya 9.0,[6] AOL Explorer 1.0, Maxthon 1.0, Shiira 1.0 1018-1021
2006 SeaMonkey 1.0, K-Meleon 1.0, Galeon 2.0, Camino 1.0, Firefox 2.0, Avant 11, iCab 3, Opera 9,[13] Internet Explorer 7, Sputnik 1093-1146
2007 Maxthon 2.0, Netscape Navigator 9, NetSurf 1.0, Flock 1.0, Safari 3.0, Conkeror 1319-1357
2008 Konqueror 4, Safari 3.1, Opera 9.5,[14] Firefox 3, Amaya 10.0,[6] Flock 2, Chrome 1, Amaya 11.0[6] 1574-1586
2009 Internet Explorer 8, Chrome 2-3, Safari 4, Opera 10,[15] SeaMonkey 2, Camino 2, Firefox 3.5 1802
2010 K-Meleon 1.5.4, Firefox 3.6, Chrome 4-8, Opera 10.50,[16] Safari 5, xxxterm, Opera 11 1971
2011 Chrome 9-16, Firefox 4-8, Internet Explorer 9, Maxthon 3.0, SeaMonkey 2.1-2.3, Opera 11.50, Safari 5.1 2095

[edit] Notable

In order of release:

[edit] Notable layout engines

[edit] Graphical

Current/maintained projects are in boldface.

[edit] 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:

[edit] Gecko-based

  • K-Ninja for Windows (based on K-Meleon; discontinued)
  • K-MeleonCCF ME for Windows (based on K-Meleon core, mostly written in Lua)

[edit] Gecko- and Trident-based

Browsers that use both Trident and Gecko include:

[edit] Webkit- and Trident-based

  • Maxthon (formerly known as MyIE2)

[edit] Gecko-, Trident- and WebKit-based

Browsers that can use Trident, Gecko and WebKit include:

[edit] KHTML-based

[edit] Presto-based

[edit] WebKit-based

[edit] For Java platform

[edit] Specialty browsers

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

Browsers created for enhancements of specific browsing activities.

[edit] Current

  • 3B (3D browser)
  • Gollum browser (Created specially for browsing Wikipedia)
  • Image Xplorer (Designed only to view, download, and print images)
  • Kirix Strata (Designed for data analytics)
  • Miro (A media browser that integrates BitTorrent like Opera's integrated BitTorrent)
  • 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)
  • 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.)
  • Epic Browser (Built on the Firefox core and targeted at Indian users with local language based word processor)

[edit] Discontinued

[edit] 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.

[edit] Others

[edit] Mobile

Main article: Mobile browser

[edit] Text-based

Main article: Text-based web browser

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b "History and Growth of the Internet". Internet World Stats. June 21, 2011. http://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm. Retrieved July 23, 2011. 
  2. ^ "Internet users". The World Bank Group. 15 December 2010. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER/countries/1W?display=graph. Retrieved 2011-04-13. 
  3. ^ Brennan, Elaine (Sun, 13 Jun 1993). "World Wibe Web Browser: Ms-Windows (Beta) (1/149)". Humanist Archives Vol. 7. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Archives/Virginia/v07/0048.html. Retrieved 27 March 2010. 
  4. ^ Großmann, Prof. Dr. Hans Peter. "Department of Information Resource Management". University of Ulm. http://www.uni-ulm.de/uni/veroeff/fb/93-95/126.html.en. Retrieved 22 March 2010. 
  5. ^ "Oracle Introduces PowerBrowser". Oracle Corporation. 18 June 1996. http://www.ncns.com/browser.html. Retrieved 2007-10-31. 
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Release history". W3C. http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/New.html. Retrieved 2009-05-02. 
  7. ^ "Opera Software Releases 3.60" (Press release). Opera Software. 1998-05-12. http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/1999/05/19990512.dml. Retrieved 2008-02-19. 
  8. ^ "Opera 4.0 for Windows Released" (Press release). Opera Software. 2000-06-27. http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2000/06/27/. Retrieved 2008-12-10. 
  9. ^ "The Browser War Lights Up in Europe" (Press release). Opera Software. 2000-12-06. http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2000/12/06_2/. Retrieved 2008-12-10. 
  10. ^ "Opera 6.0 for Windows launched after record-breaking beta" (Press release). Opera Software. 2001-11-29. http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2001/11/20011129.dml. Retrieved 2008-02-19. 
  11. ^ "Opera 7 Ready to Rock the Web" (Press release). Opera Software. 2003-01-28. http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2003/01/28/. Retrieved 2008-02-19. 
  12. ^ "Speed, Security and Simplicity: Opera 8 Web Browser Released Today" (Press release). Opera Software. 2005-04-19. http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2005/04/19/. Retrieved 2008-02-19. 
  13. ^ "Your Web, Your Choice: Opera 9 Gives You the Control" (Press release). Opera Software. 2006-06-20. http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2006/06/20/. Retrieved 2008-12-10. 
  14. ^ "Opera redefines Web browsing yet again" (Press release). Opera Software. 2008-06-12. http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2008/06/12/. Retrieved 2008-06-12. 
  15. ^ "Turbocharge your Web experience with Opera 10" (Press release). Opera Software. 2009-09-01. http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2009/09/01/. Retrieved 2 January 2010. 
  16. ^ "The world's fastest browser for Windows" (Press release). Oslo, Norway: Opera Software. 2010-03-02. http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2010/03/02/. Retrieved 28 March 2010. 
  17. ^ "Mozilla 1.0". mozilla.org. 2002. http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0.html. Retrieved 2008-09-07. 
  18. ^ "Have it all: Lunascape, the browser with three engines". CNET News. 2008-11-24. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10105896-2.html. Retrieved 2010-05-20. 
  19. ^ "Projects/WebKit/Part - KDE TechBase". KDE TechBase. http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/WebKit/Part. Retrieved 2010-03-30. 
  20. ^ appiphiliac. "UltraLight Web Browser". AppBrain.com. http://www.appbrain.com/app/ultralight-web-browser/com.nj.appiphiliac.browser. Retrieved 2010-03-30. 

[edit] External links

Early web browsers (up to 1996)
Comparison  · History  · List (for Unix)  · Timeline  · Usage share
1990
WorldWideWeb (Nexus)
1991
1992
ViolaWWW · Erwise · MidasWWW · MacWWW (Samba) · tkWWW
1993
NCSA Mosaic · AMosaic · VMS Mosaic · Cello · Lynx (2.0) · Arena
1994
1995
1996
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