The following is a list of web browsers that are notable.
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.
Layout engines
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. 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.
Blink is a 2013 fork of WebKit's WebCore component by Google used in Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera, and Vivaldi.
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:
360 Secure Browser
AOL Explorer
Deepnet Explorer
GreenBrowser
Internet Explorer
MediaBrowser
MSN Explorer
NeoPlanet
NetCaptor
QQ Browser
Gecko-based
Camino for Mac OS X (formerly Chimera)
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
Firefox for mobile (codenamed Fennec)
Mozilla Application Suite
Beonex Communicator (separate branch, based on Mozilla Application Suite)
Classilla (an updated fork of the Suite to Mac OS 9)
Gnuzilla (GNU's fork)
Netscape (Netscape 6 to 7, based on Mozilla)
SeaMonkey (successor to Mozilla Application Suite)
Basilisk – similar to Pale Moon, but with the interface of Firefox 29–56 and a few other differences
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
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)
Gecko-, Trident-, and Blink-based
Browsers that can use Trident, Gecko and Blink include:
Lunascape
KHTML-based
Konqueror
Konqueror Embedded
Presto-based
Internet Channel (for Wii console, Opera-based)
Nintendo DS Browser (Opera-based)
Opera (for releases up until 12.18)
WebEngine-based
Blink-based
Chromium
Amazon Silk
Arc
Avast Secure Browser
Beaker
Brave
Cốc Cốc
Comodo Dragon
Epic
Google Chrome (based on Blink since Chrome v. 28)
JioPages
Microsoft Edge
NAVER Whale
Opera
Opera GX
Puffin Browser
qutebrowser (Blink backend mostly stable)
Redcore
RockMelt
SalamWeb
Sleipnir
SRWare Iron
Torch
Ungoogled-chromium
Vivaldi
Yandex Browser
Qt WebEngine
Dooble (from Version 2.2)
Falkon
EdgeHTML-based
Microsoft Edge (formerly using EdgeHTML, now using Blink)
For Java platform
BOLT Browser
HotJava
Opera Mini
ThunderHawk
Specialty browsers
Browsers created for enhancements of specific browsing activities.
Current
SpaceTime (Search the web in 3D)
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 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.
AMosaic
IBM WebExplorer
Internet Explorer 1.x
Internet in a Box
Mosaic-CK
Netscape
Spyglass Mosaic
VMS Mosaic
Others
Abaco (for Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Linux)
Amaya
Arachne (for DOS and Linux)
Arena
Ariadna (AMSD Ariadna) (first Russian web browser)
AWeb (AmigaOS)
Baidu Mobile Browser
Charon (for Inferno)
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
Amazon Silk
Apple Safari
Arc
Brave
Dolphin browser
Firefox Focus
Google Chrome
Microsoft Edge
Mozilla Firefox
Opera Mobile
Puffin Browser
QQ browser
Samsung Internet
UC Browser
Vivaldi
Text-based
Emacs/W3
EWW
Line Mode Browser
Links
ELinks
Lynx
w3m
See also
History of the web browser
Timeline of web browsers
Comparison of web browsers
Comparison of browser engines
List of search engines
List of web browsers for Unix and Unix-like operating systems
Usage share of web browsers
Browser wars
References
External links
Adrian Roselli, evolt.org Browser Archive (2004). List and archive of many current and obsolete web browsers.
Daniel R. Tobias, Brand-X Browsers (2002).
Michael Bernadi, DOS Applications for Internet Use (2006).