Browser Kernels

Browser Kernels and Their Representative Browsers

Data source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers

Notable layout engines

• Gecko is developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
• KHTML is developed by the KDE project.
• Presto is developed by Opera Software for use in Opera. Development stopped as Opera transitions to Blink.
• Tasman was developed by Microsoft for use in Internet Explorer 5 for Macintosh.
• Trident is developed by Microsoft for use in the Windows version of their web browser, from Internet Explorer 4 to the present time.
• WebKit is a fork of KHTML by Apple Inc. used in Apple Safari, Chromium and Google Chrome.
• Blink is a 2013 fork of WebKit by Google used in Chromium, Google Chrome and Opera.^[19]
• Servo is an experimental web browser layout engine being developed cooperatively by Mozilla and Samsung.

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:

• 360 Secure Browser
• AOL Explorer (discontinued)
• Bento Browser (built into Winamp)
• GreenBrowser
• Internet Explorer
• MediaBrowser (discontinued)
• MenuBox
• MSN Explorer
• NeoPlanet (discontinued)
• NetCaptor (discontinued)
• RealPlayer
• SlimBrowser
• Tencent Traveler
• TomeRaider
• UltraBrowser (discontinued)
• WebbIE

Gecko-based

• Mozilla Firefox (formerly Firebird and Phoenix)

• Netscape Browser 8 to Netscape Navigator 9 (discontinued)
• Iceweasel, Debian's Firefox rebrand
• GNU IceCat, GNU's fork of Firefox
• Pale Moon (Windows-only optimized browser based on Firefox)
• Comodo IceDragon (Firefox-based web browser for Windows)

• 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

• Firefox for mobile (codenamed Fennec)
• Skyfire (for mobile)
• Camino for Mac OS X (formerly Chimera)^[20] (discontinued)
• Conkeror, keyboard-driven browser
• Mozilla Application Suite (discontinued)

• SeaMonkey (successor to Mozilla Application Suite)
  • Iceape Debian's Seamonkey rebrand
• Classilla (an updated fork of the Suite to Mac OS 9)
• Gnuzilla GNU's fork
• Netscape (discontinued; Netscape 6 to 7, based on Mozilla)
• Beonex Communicator (separate branch, based on Mozilla Application Suite) (discontinued)

• Yahoo! Browser (or partnership browsers e.g. "AT&T Yahoo! Browser"; "Verizon Yahoo! Browser"; "BT Yahoo! Browser" etc.)
• Galeon, GNOME's old default browser (discontinued)
• K-Meleon for Windows

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

• MicroB (for Maemo)
• Minimo (for mobile, discontinued)

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 (discontinued)

Webkit- and Trident-based

• Baidu Browser
• Maxthon (formerly known as MyIE2)
• Sleipnir

Gecko-, Trident- and WebKit-based

Browsers that can use Trident, Gecko and WebKit include:

• Avant Browser^[21]
• Lunascape^[22]

KHTML-based

• Konqueror
• Konqueror Embedded

Presto-based

• Internet Channel (for Wii console, Opera-based)
• Nintendo DS Browser (Opera-based)
• Opera (for releases up until 12.16^[23])

WebKit-based

• Amazon Kindle (experimental)
• Arora (discontinued)
• BOLT browser (discontinued)
• Chromium
  • Google Chrome (based on fork Blink since Chrome v. 28)
  • Opera^[24]
  • Amigo
  • Torch browser
  • Comodo Dragon
  • QIP Surf
  • Epic
  • Nichrome
  • SRWare Iron
  • Uran Browser
  • Yandex browser
  • RockMelt (discontinued)
• Dolphin Browser (Android and Bada)
• Dooble
• Flock (discontinued) (version 3.0 and above)
• iCab (version 4 uses WebKit; earlier versions used its own rendering engine)
• Iris Browser (discontinued)
• Konqueror (version 4 can use WebKit as an alternative to its native KHTML^[25])
• Maxthon (version 3.0 and above)
• Midori
• Nintendo 3DS NetFront Browser NX
• OmniWeb
• OWB
• QtWeb
• QupZilla
• Rekonq
• Safari
• Shiira (discontinued)
• Steel for Android
• Steam ingame browser

• Ultralight^[26] for Android
• Uzbl
• Web
• Web Browser for S60, used in all Nokia Symbian smartphones.
• webOS, used in the Palm Pre, Palm Pixi, Pre 2, HP Veer, Pre 3 and TouchPad mobile devices
• WebPositive, browser in Haiku
• xombrero

For Java platform

• Bitstream ThunderHawk
• BOLT Browser (discontinued)
• HotJava (discontinued)
• Opera Mini
• uZard Web
• UCWEB
• HtmlUnit (Graphical user interface-less)
• Teashark

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 add-on)
• 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 add-on)
• Zac Browser (For children with autism, and autism spectrum disorders such as Asperger syndrome, pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), and PDD-NOS)

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.

• AMosaic
• IBM WebExplorer
• Internet Explorer
• Internet in a Box
• Mosaic-CK
• Netscape
• Spyglass Mosaic
• VMS Mosaic

Others

• Abaco (for Plan 9 from Bell Labs)
• Amaya
• Arachne (for DOS)
• Arena
• Ariadna (AMSD Ariadna) (first Russian web browser, discontinued)
• AWeb (AmigaOS)
• Baidu Mobile Browser
• Charon (for Inferno)
• Dillo (Small, fast, free, minimalistic, and multi-platform)
• DR-WebSpyder (for DOS, discontinued)
• Embrowser (for DOS, discontinued)
• Gazelle (from Microsoft Research, OS-like)
• IBrowse (for AmigaOS)
• Mothra (for Plan 9 from Bell Labs)
• NetPositive (for BeOS)
• NetSurf (An open source web browser for RISC OS and GTK+ written in C)
• Planetweb browser (discontinued for Dreamcast)
• Qihoo 360 mobile browsers
• Phoenix, a browser based on tkWWW
• tkWWW, based on Tcl
• Voyager (for AmigaOS)

Mobile

Main article: Mobile browser

Text-based

Main article: Text-based web browser

• Alynx
• ELinks (active version of Links)
• Emacs/W3
• Line Mode Browser
• Links
• Lynx
• Net-Tamer
• w3m
• WebbIE