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The following is a list of notable web browsers.

Timeline representing the history of various web browsers.

Historical

Usage share of web browsers according to StatCounter till 2019-05. See HTML5 beginnings, Presto rendering engine deprecation and Chrome's dominance.
See also: Timeline of web browsers

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]

Year Web browsers
1990 WorldWideWeb (Nexus)
1991 Line Mode Browser
1992 Erwise, MacWWW (Samba), MidasWWW, ViolaWWW
1993 AMosaic 1.0, Arena, Cello,[2] Lynx 2.0, Mosaic
1994 Agora (Argo), IBM WebExplorer, IBrowse, MacWeb, Minuet, Netscape Navigator, SlipKnot 1.0
1995 Grail, Internet Explorer 1, Internet Explorer 2, Netscape Navigator 2.0, OmniWeb, UdiWWW,[3]
1996 Amaya 0.9,[4] Arachne 1.0, AWeb, Cyberdog, Internet Explorer 3.0, Netscape Navigator 3.0, Opera 2.0, PowerBrowser 1.5,[5] Voyager
1997 Amaya 1.0, [4] Internet Explorer 4.0, Netscape Navigator 4.0, Netscape Communicator 4.0, Opera 3.0[6]
1998 iCab, Mozilla
1999 Amaya 2.0,[4] Mozilla M3, Internet Explorer 5.0
2000 Amaya 3.0[4], Amaya 4.0,[4] K-Meleon 0.2, Konqueror, Netscape 6, Opera 4,[7] Opera 5,[8]
2001 Amaya 5.0,[4] Internet Explorer 6, Galeon 1.0, Opera 6,[9]
2002 Amaya 6.0,[4] Amaya 7.0,[4]Phoenix 0.1, Netscape 7, Mozilla 1.0, Links 2.0
2003 Amaya 8.0,[4] Epiphany 1.0, Opera 7,[10] Apple Safari 1.0,
2004 Firefox 1.0, Netscape Browser, OmniWeb 5.0
2005 Amaya 9.0,[4] AOL Explorer 1.0, Epiphany 1.8, Maxthon 1.0, Netscape Browser 8.0, Opera 8,[11] Apple Safari 2.0, Shiira 1.0
2006 Camino 1.0, Galeon 2.0, iCab 3, K-Meleon 1.0, Mozilla Firefox 2.0, Internet Explorer 7, Opera 9,[12], SeaMonkey 1.0
2007 Conkeror, Flock 1.0, Apple Safari 3.0, Netscape Navigator 9, NetSurf 1.0
2008 Google Chrome 1, Maxthon 2.0, Mozilla Firefox 3, Opera 9.5,[13], Apple Safari 3.1, Konqueror 4, Amaya 10.0[4], Flock 2, Amaya 11.0[4]
2009 Google Chrome 2–3, Mozilla Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 8, Opera 10,[14], Apple Safari 4, SeaMonkey 2, Camino 2, surf, Pale Moon 3.0[15]
2010 Google Chrome 4–8, Mozilla Firefox 3.6, Opera 10.50,[16], Opera 11, Apple Safari 5, K-Meleon 1.5.4, xxxterm
2011 Google Chrome 9–16, Mozilla Firefox 4–9, Internet Explorer 9, Opera 11.50, Apple Safari 5.1, Maxthon 3.0, SeaMonkey 2.1–2.6
2012 Google Chrome 17–23, Mozilla Firefox 10–17, Internet Explorer 10, Opera 12, Apple Safari 6, Maxthon 4.0, SeaMonkey 2.7–2.14
2013 Google Chrome 24–31, Mozilla Firefox 18–26, Internet Explorer 11, Opera 15–18, Pale Moon 15.4–24.2.2[17], Apple Safari 7, SeaMonkey 2.15–2.23
2014 Google Chrome 32–39, Mozilla Firefox 27–34, Opera 19–26, Pale Moon 24.3.0–25.1.0[17], Apple Safari 8, SeaMonkey 2.24–2.30
2015 Google Chrome 40–47, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox 35–43, Opera 27–34, Pale Moon 25.2.0–25.8.1[17], Vivaldi
2016 Google Chrome 48–55, Mozilla Firefox 44–50, Microsoft Edge 14, Opera 35–42, Pale Moon 26.0.0–27.0.3, Apple Safari 9–10, SeaMonkey 2.24–2.30
2017 Google Chrome 56–60, Microsoft Edge 15, Mozilla Firefox 51–55.0.2, Opera 43–45, Opera Neon, Pale Moon 27.1.0–27.6.2, Safari 10–11
2018 Chrome 64–71, Firefox 58–64, Microsoft Edge 42–44, Opera 50–57, Pale Moon 27.7.0–28.2.2, Safari 11–12, Vivaldi 1.14–2.2
2019 Chrome 72–79, Firefox 65–71, Microsoft Edge, Opera 58–65, Pale Moon 28.3.0–28.8.0, Safari 12–13, SeaMonkey, Vivaldi 2.2–2.10, Yandex.browser
2020 Chrome 80–87, Firefox 72–84, Microsoft Edge, Opera 66–73, Pale Moon 28.8.1–28.17.0, Safari 13–14, SeaMonkey, Vivaldi 2.10–3.5, Yandex.browser
2021 Chrome 88–96, Firefox 85–95, Microsoft Edge 88–96, Opera 74–82, Pale Moon 29.0.0–29.4.3, Safari 15, Vivaldi 3.6–5.0
2022 Chrome 97–107, Firefox 96–107, Microsoft Edge 97–107, Opera 83–93, Pale Moon 29.4.4-31.4.2, Safari 15.4–16.2, Vivaldi 5.1–5.6
2023 Chrome 108–120.0.6099.129, Firefox 108–121.0, Microsoft Edge 108–120.0.2210.61, Opera 94–106.0.4998.19, Pale Moon 31.4.3-32.5.2, Safari 16.3–17.2, Vivaldi 5.7–6.5, Arc 1.10-1.21.0
2024 Chrome 120–Current, Firefox 122–Current, Microsoft Edge 121–Current, Opera 106-Current, Pale Moon 33-Current, Safari 17.3–Current, Vivaldi 6.6-Current, Arc 1.21.1-Current, Ecosia Browser 1.0.0.31–Current

Notable

In order of release:

Notable layout engines

Graphical

Current/maintained projects are 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

  • AT&T Pogo (discontinued; based on Firefox)
  • Flock (discontinued; was based on Firefox until version 2.6.1, and based on Chromium thereafter)
  • Swiftfox (discontinued; processor-optimised builds based on Firefox)
  • Swiftweasel (discontinued; processor-optimised builds based on Iceweasel)
  • xB Browser (discontinued; formerly XeroBank Browser and Torpark), portable browser for anonymous browsing, originally based on Firefox
  • K-Ninja for Windows (discontinued; based on K-Meleon)
  • K-MeleonCCF ME for Windows (based on K-Meleon core, mostly written in Lua)

Gecko- and Trident-based

Browsers that use both Trident and Gecko include:

Webkit- and Trident-based

Gecko-, Trident- and WebKit-based

Browsers that can use Trident, Gecko and WebKit include:

KHTML-based

Presto-based

WebKit-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

  • 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)
  • Nightingale (open source audio player and web browser based on the Songbird (see below) media player source code)
  • 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)

Discontinued

  • Ghostzilla (Blends into the GUI to hide activity)
  • Prodigy Classic (Executable only within the application)
  • Flock (To enhance social networking, blogging, photo-sharing, and RSS news-reading)
  • 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

Main article: Mobile browser

Text-based

Main article: Text-based web browser

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "History and Growth of the Internet". Internet World Stats. June 21, 2011. Retrieved July 23, 2011.
  2. ^ Brennan, Elaine (13 Jun 1993). "World Wibe Web Browser: Ms-Windows (Beta) (1/149)". Humanist Archives Vol. 7. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
  3. ^ Großmann, Prof. Dr. Hans Peter. "Department of Information Resource Management". University of Ulm. Retrieved 22 March 2010.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Release history". W3C. Retrieved 2009-05-02.
  5. ^ "Oracle Introduces PowerBrowser". Oracle Corporation. 18 June 1996. Retrieved 2007-10-31.
  6. ^ "Opera Software Releases 3.60" (Press release). Opera Software. 1998-05-12. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
  7. ^ "Opera 4.0 for Windows Released" (Press release). Opera Software. 2000-06-27. Retrieved 2008-12-10.
  8. ^ "The Browser War Lights Up in Europe" (Press release). Opera Software. 2000-12-06. Retrieved 2008-12-10.
  9. ^ "Opera 6.0 for Windows launched after record-breaking beta" (Press release). Opera Software. 2001-11-29. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
  10. ^ "Opera 7 Ready to Rock the Web" (Press release). Opera Software. 2003-01-28. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
  11. ^ "Speed, Security and Simplicity: Opera 8 Web Browser Released Today" (Press release). Opera Software. 2005-04-19. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
  12. ^ "Your Web, Your Choice: Opera 9 Gives You the Control" (Press release). Opera Software. 2006-06-20. Retrieved 2008-12-10.
  13. ^ "Opera redefines Web browsing yet again" (Press release). Opera Software. 2008-06-12. Retrieved 2008-06-12.
  14. ^ "Turbocharge your Web experience with Opera 10" (Press release). Opera Software. 2009-09-01. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
  15. ^ "History of the Pale Moon project". Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  16. ^ "The world's fastest browser for Windows" (Press release). Oslo, Norway: Opera Software. 2010-03-02. Retrieved 28 March 2010.
  17. ^ a b c "General information". Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  18. ^ "Mozilla 1.0". mozilla.org. 2002. Retrieved 2008-09-07.
  19. ^ http://caminobrowser.org Camino reaches its end
  20. ^ "Try Avant Browser 2012 for a Choice of Rendering Engines". PC world. 2012-01-03. Retrieved 2012-01-03.
  21. ^ "Have it all: Lunascape, the browser with three engines". CNET News. 2008-11-24. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
  22. ^ "300 million users and move to WebKit". Opera Developer News.
  23. ^ "A first peek at Opera 15 for Computers". Opera. Retrieved 2013-06-24.
  24. ^ "Projects/WebKit/Part — KDE TechBase". KDE TechBase. Retrieved 2010-03-30.
  25. ^ appiphiliac. "UltraLight Web Browser". AppBrain.com. Retrieved 2010-03-30.
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