This article needs to be updated.(October 2021) The following is a list of web browsers that are notable.
A rough estimate of usage share by percent of layout engines of web browsers as of Q2 2009, see usage share 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]
Current and maintained projects are listed in boldface. Trident shellsOther 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
Gecko- and Trident-basedBrowsers that use both Trident and Gecko include:
Webkit- and Trident-based
Blink- and Trident-based
Gecko-, Trident-, and Blink-basedBrowsers that can use Trident, Gecko and Blink include:
KHTML-based
Presto-based
WebKit-based
Blink-based
EdgeHTML-based
For Java platform
Specialty browsersBrowsers created for enhancements of specific browsing activities. Current
Discontinued
Mosaic-basedMosaic 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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