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.
In order of release:
WorldWideWeb, February 25, 1990
Mosaic, April 22, 1993
Netscape Navigator and Netscape Communicator, October 13, 1994
Internet Explorer, August 16, 1995
Opera, 1996, see History of the Opera web browser
Mozilla Navigator, June 5, 2002
Safari, January 7, 2003
Mozilla Firefox, November 9, 2004
Google Chrome, September 2, 2008
Microsoft Edge, July 9, 2015
Gecko is developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
Goanna is a fork of Gecko developed by Moonchild Productions.
KHTML is developed by the KDE project.
Presto is developed by Opera Software for use in Opera. Development stopped as Opera transitioned 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 versions of Internet Explorer 4 to Internet Explorer 11.
WebKit is a fork of KHTML by Apple Inc. used in Apple Safari, Chromium and Google Chrome.
Blink is a 2013 fork of WebKit's WebCore component by Google used in Chromium, Google Chrome and Opera.
Servo is an experimental web browser layout engine being developed cooperatively by Mozilla and Samsung.
EdgeHTML is the engine developed by Microsoft for Edge. It is a largely rewritten fork of Trident with all legacy code removed.
Current/maintained projects are in boldface.
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)
Deepnet Explorer (discontinued)
GreenBrowser
Internet Explorer
MediaBrowser (discontinued)
MenuBox
MSN Explorer (discontinued)
NeoPlanet (discontinued)
NetCaptor (discontinued)
RealPlayer
SlimBrowser
Tencent Traveler
TomeRaider (discontinued)
UltraBrowser (discontinued)
WebbIE
Camino for Mac OS X (formerly Chimera) (discontinued)
Conkeror, keyboard-driven browser
Galeon, GNOME's old default browser (discontinued)
K-Meleon for Windows
K-MeleonCCF ME for Windows (based on K-Meleon core, mostly written in Lua)
K-Ninja for Windows (discontinued; based on K-Meleon)
MicroB (for Maemo)
Minimo (for mobile, discontinued)
Mozilla Firefox (formerly Firebird and Phoenix)
AT&T Pogo (discontinued; based on Firefox)
CometBird an optimized fork of Firefox (discontinued)
Comodo IceDragon (Firefox-based web browser for Windows)
Flock (discontinued; was based on Firefox until version 2.6.1, and based on Chromium thereafter)
Iceweasel, Debian's Firefox rebrand
GNU IceCat, GNU's fork of Firefox
Netscape Browser 8 to Netscape Navigator 9 (discontinued)
TenFourFox (Firefox port to PowerPC versions of Mac OS X)
Timberwolf, AmigaOS' Firefox rebrand
Tor Browser, patched Firefox ESR for browsing in Tor anonymity network
Swiftfox (discontinued; processor-optimised builds based on Firefox)
Swiftweasel (discontinued; processor-optimised builds based on Iceweasel)
Waterfox (Windows 64-bit-only browser based on Firefox)
xB Browser (discontinued; formerly XeroBank Browser and Torpark), portable browser for anonymous browsing, originally based on Firefox
Firefox for mobile (codenamed Fennec)
Mozilla Application Suite (discontinued)
Beonex Communicator (separate branch, based on Mozilla Application Suite) (discontinued)
Classilla (an updated fork of the Suite to Mac OS 9)
Gnuzilla GNU's fork
Netscape (discontinued; Netscape 6 to 7, based on Mozilla)
SeaMonkey (successor to Mozilla Application Suite)
Iceape Debian's Seamonkey rebrand (discontinued)
Skyfire (for mobile) (discontinued)
Yahoo! Browser (or partnership browsers e.g. "AT&T Yahoo! Browser"; "Verizon Yahoo! Browser"; "BT Yahoo! Browser" etc.)
Pale Moon (a fork of Firefox with official releases for Windows and Linux, plus a community release for macOS, that maintains the UI of the Firefox version 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 (discontinued)
Webkit- and Trident-based
Baidu Browser
Maxthon (formerly known as MyIE2)
Gecko-, Trident- and WebKit-based
Browsers that can use Trident, Gecko and WebKit include:
Avant Browser
Lunascape
Konqueror
Konqueror Embedded
Internet Channel (for Wii console, Opera-based)
Nintendo DS Browser (Opera-based)
Opera (for releases up until 12.17)
Amazon Kindle (experimental)
Arora (discontinued)
BOLT browser (discontinued)
Chromium
Comodo Dragon
Ecosia
Epic
RockMelt (discontinued)
SRWare Iron
Torch
Yandex Browser
Cốc Cốc
Dolphin Browser (Android and Bada)
Dooble
Firefox for iOS
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)
Maxthon (version 3.0 and above)
Midori
Nintendo 3DS NetFront Browser NX
OmniWeb
Otter Browser (aims to recreate the features of old Opera)
OWB
QtWeb (discontinued)
Qutebrowser (a Blink-based backend is currently in development.)
QupZilla
Roccat Browser
Rekonq
Safari
PhantomJS (a headless browser)
Shiira (discontinued)
SlimBoat
Steel for Android
Steam ingame browser
surf
Uzbl
Web (previously known as Epiphany)
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 (discontinued)
Chromium
Brave
Google Chrome (based on Blink since Chrome v. 28)
Opera
qutebrowser (Blink backend mostly stable)
Sleipnir
Slimjet
Vivaldi
Microsoft Edge
ThunderHawk
BOLT Browser (discontinued)
HotJava (discontinued)
Opera Mini
Teashark (discontinued)
Browsers created for enhancements of specific browsing activities.
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)
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)
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 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
Abaco (for Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Linux)
Amaya (discontinued)
Arachne (for DOS and Linux)
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)
The most popular mobile browsers as of June 2014 are:
Safari
Android Browser
Chrome
UC Browser
Opera Mini
Internet Explorer
Emacs/W3
EWW
Line Mode Browser
Links
ELinks
Lynx
w3m
WebbIE
