A web browser is an application that allows you to access and view websites and other content on the internet. Different browsers have their own strengths, focusing on speed, privacy, or customizability, and can be used on various devices, including desktops, laptops, and mobile phones.
This is a comparison of both historical and current web browsers based on developer, engine, platform(s), releases, license, and cost.
General information Basic general information about the browsers. Browsers listed on a light purple background are discontinued. Platforms with a yellow background have limited support.
Browser Developer Layout engine Platform Latest release License Cost (USD) Version Date Amaya(discontinued) W3C, INRIA Custom rowspan="3" rowspan="3" rowspan="3" AOL Explorer(discontinued) America Online, Inc Trident Arora(discontinued) Benjamin C. Meyer WebKit rowspan="6" rowspan="6" rowspan="6" Avast Secure Browser Avast Software Blink rowspan="4" rowspan="4" Basilisk Basilisk-Dev Goanna rowspan="3" rowspan="3" rowspan="3" Brave Brave Software Inc. Blink rowspan="5" rowspan="5" Camino(discontinued) The Camino Project Gecko Chrome Google Blink rowspan="5" rowspan="5" Chromium The Chromium Project Blink (built nightly) Cliqz(discontinued) Cliqz GmbH Gecko rowspan="4" rowspan="4" Comodo Dragon Comodo Group Blink Comodo IceDragon(discontinued) Comodo Group Gecko Dillo The Dillo team Custom rowspan="5" rowspan="5" Dooble Dooble Team Blink rowspan="5" rowspan="5" Edge Microsoft EdgeHTMLBlink rowspan="5" rowspan="5" ELinks Baudis, Fonseca, et al. Fork of Links rowspan="4" rowspan="4" Falkon David Rosca Blink rowspan="6" rowspan="6" Firefox Mozilla Foundation GeckoGecko w/Servo rowspan="7" rowspan="7" Flock(discontinued) Flock Inc WebKit rowspan="4" rowspan="4" rowspan="4" Galeon(discontinued) Marco Pesenti Gritti Gecko rowspan="4" rowspan="4" rowspan="4" GNOME Web(Epiphany) Marco Pesenti Gritti WebKit rowspan="4" rowspan="4" GNU IceCat GNU Gecko rowspan="4" rowspan="4" iCab Alexander Clauss WebKit LGPL Internet Explorer(discontinued) Microsoft,Spyglass Trident Internet Explorer for Mac(discontinued) Microsoft Tasman K-Meleon Dorian, KKO, et al. Goanna Konqueror KDE KHTMLWebKit rowspan="5" rowspan="5" Ladybird Ladybird Browser Initiative LibWeb rowspan="5" rowspan="5" Links Patocka, et al. Custom rowspan="6" rowspan="6" Lunascape Lunascape Corporation GeckoTridentWebKit rowspan="4" rowspan="4" Lynx Montulli, Grobe, Rezac, et al. Fork of libwww rowspan="6" rowspan="6" Maxthon Maxthon International Limited BlinkTrident rowspan="5" rowspan="5" Midori Christian Dywan, et al. WebKitGecko rowspan="4" rowspan="4" Mosaic(discontinued) Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, NCSA Custom Mozilla Application Suite(discontinued) Mozilla Foundation Gecko Netscape(v.6–7)(discontinued) Netscape Communications Corporation, AOL Gecko 7.2 Tri-license Netscape Browser(v.8)(discontinued) Mercurial Communications for AOL GeckoTrident Tri-license Netscape Communicator(v.4)(discontinued) Netscape Communications Fork of Mosaic Netscape Navigator(v.1–4)(discontinued) Netscape Communications Fork of Mosaic 4.0.8 Netscape Navigator 9(discontinued) Netscape Communications(division of AOL) Gecko Tri-license NetSurf The NetSurf Developers Custom rowspan="7" rowspan="7" OmniWeb(discontinued) The Omni Group WebKit LGPL Opera Opera Software PrestoBlink Opera Mobile Opera Software PrestoWebKit for 14Blink 63.3.3216.58675 2021-04-23 rowspan="4" rowspan="4" 3.1.0 2021-06-10 12.0.22 10.0 Origyn Web Browser Sand-labs WebKit 1.25 2016-04-02 rowspan="3" rowspan="3" 1.23r5 2022-01-02 1.24 2014-04-15 Pale Moon Moonchild Productions Goanna rowspan="2" rowspan="2" Puffin Browser CloudMosa Inc. WebKit 10.4.1.51678 2024-10-02 rowspan="5" rowspan="5" qutebrowser Freya Bruhin WebKitQtWebEngine rowspan="4" rowspan="4" Safari Apple Inc. WebKit rowspan="2" LGPL rowspan="2" SalamWeb Salam WebTechnologies DMCC Blink rowspan="4" rowspan="4" SeaMonkey SeaMonkey Council Gecko rowspan="5" rowspan="5" Shiira(discontinued) Happy Macintosh Developing Team WebKit Sleipnir Fenrir Inc. BlinkTrident rowspan="4" rowspan="4" SRWare Iron SRWare Blink rowspan="4" rowspan="4" 2022-04-29 surf suckless.org WebKit rowspan="4" rowspan="4" Torch Browser(discontinued) Torch Media Blink rowspan="2" rowspan="2" Uzbl(discontinued) Dieter Plaetinck WebKit Vivaldi Vivaldi Technologies Blink rowspan="4" rowspan="4" Waterfox Alex Kontos Gecko rowspan="4" rowspan="4" WebPositive Haiku WebKit 1.9.11 2024-02-05 rowspan="1" rowspan="1" WorldWideWeb(Nexus)(discontinued) Tim Berners-Lee Custom w3m Akinori Ito Custom rowspan="5" rowspan="5" Yandex Browser Yandex Blink rowspan="5" rowspan="5" Browser Developer Layout engine Platform Latest release License Cost (USD) Version Date
Operating system support Browsers are compiled to run on certain operating systems, without emulation.
This list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common OSes today (e.g. Netscape Navigator was also developed for OS/2 at a time when macOS 10 did not exist) but does not include the growing appliance segment (for example, the Opera web browser has gained a leading role for use in mobile phones, smartphones, the Nintendo DS and Wii, and Personal Digital Assistants, and is also used in some smart TVs). Both the web browser and OS means most recent version, example: Windows 11 with Internet Explorer 11.
Browser Windows macOS Linux BSD Other Unix Android iOS Amaya AOL Explorer Arora Avast Secure Browser Basilisk Brave Camino Cliqz Chrome Chromium Dillo Dooble Edge ELinks Falkon Firefox Firefox ESR Flock Galeon GNOME Web GNU IceCat iCab Internet Explorer K-Meleon Konqueror Ladybird Links Lunascape Lynx Maxthon Midori NetSurf OmniWeb Opera Pale Moon qutebrowser Safari SalamWeb SeaMonkey Shiira Sleipnir SRWare Iron surf Torch Browser Vivaldi WorldWideWeb w3m Browser Windows macOS Linux BSD Other Unix Android iOS
Browser features Information about what common browser features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons).
Browser Bookmark management Download management Password managing History Open tabs from previous sessions Form managing Spell checking Search engine toolbar Per-site security configuration Privacy mode Auto-updater Amaya AOL Explorer Arora Avast Secure Browser Basilisk Brave Camino Cliqz Chrome Chromium Dillo Dooble Edge ELinks Falkon Firefox Flock Galeon GNOME Web iCab Internet Explorer Internet Explorer for Mac K-Meleon Konqueror Ladybird Links Lunascape Users can receive auto-notification when updates are available. Lynx Maxthon Midori Mosaic Mozilla Netscape Netscape Browser Netscape Navigator Netscape Navigator 9 NetSurf OmniWeb Opera Pale Moon Safari SalamWeb SeaMonkey Shiira Sleipnir SRWare Iron surf Torch Browser Vivaldi WorldWideWeb w3m Browser Bookmark management Download management Password managing History Open tabs from previous sessions Form managing Spell checking Search engine toolbar Per-site security configuration Privacy mode Auto-updater
Accessibility features Information about what common accessibility features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons). Browsers that do not support pop-ups have no need for pop-up blocking abilities, so that field is marked as N/A.
Browser Tabbed browsing Pop-up blocking Auto-play blocking Incremental search Ad filtering Page zooming Full text search of history Content-modal dialogsCanvas fingerprinting protection Amaya AOL Explorer Arora Avast Secure Browser Basilisk Brave Camino Cliqz Chrome Chromium Dillo Dooble Edge Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge ELinks Falkon Firefox Flock Galeon GNOME Web iCab Internet Explorer Internet Explorer for Mac K-Meleon Konqueror Ladybird Links Lunascape Lynx Maxthon Midori Mosaic Mozilla Netscape Netscape Browser Netscape Navigator Netscape Navigator 9 NetSurf OmniWeb Opera Pale Moon Safari SeaMonkey Shiira Sleipnir SRWare Iron surf Torch Browser WorldWideWeb w3m Browser Tabbed browsing Pop-up blocking Auto-play blocking Incremental search Ad filtering Page zooming Full text search of history Content-modal dialogsCanvas fingerprinting protection
Accessibility features (continued) Information about what common accessibility features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons).
Browser Access keys Tabbing navigation Spatial navigation Caret navigation Smart bookmarks Mouse gesture Text-to-speech Voice control Can disable font smoothing Amaya AOL Explorer Arora Avast Secure Browser Basilisk Camino Chrome Chromium Dillo Dooble Edge ELinks Falkon Firefox Flock Galeon Disabled GNOME Web iCab Internet Explorer K-Meleon Disabled Konqueror Ladybird Links Lunascape Lynx Maxthon Midori Mosaic Netscape Navigator NetSurf OmniWeb Opera Pale Moon Safari SeaMonkey Shiira Sleipnir surf Torch Browser WorldWideWeb w3m Browser Access keys Tabbing navigation Spatial navigation Caret navigation Smart bookmarks Mouse gesture Text-to-speech Voice control Can disable font smoothing
Web technology support Information about what web standards, and technologies the browsers support, except for JavaScript. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.
Browser CSS2.1 Frames Nav LINKs XSLT XHTML MathML HTML 5form elements Amaya AOL Explorer Avast Secure Browser Arora Basilisk Brave Camino Chrome Dillo Dooble Edge ELinks Falkon Firefox Flock Galeon GNOME Web iCab Internet Explorer Internet Explorer for Mac K-Meleon Konqueror Ladybird Links Lunascape Lynx Maxthon Midori Mosaic Mozilla Netscape Netscape Browser Netscape Navigator Netscape Navigator 9 NetSurf OmniWeb Opera Pale Moon Safari SeaMonkey Shiira Sleipnir surf Torch Browser WorldWideWeb w3m Browser CSS2.1 Frames Nav LINKs XSLT XHTML MathML HTML 5form elements
Plugins and syndicated content support Information about what web standards, and technologies the browsers support. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.
Browser ActiveX NPAPI Java Gears RSS Atom other web feed Amaya AOL Explorer Avast Secure Browser Basilisk Camino Chrome Dillo Edge ELinks Falkon Firefox Flock Galeon GNOME Web iCab Internet Explorer Internet Explorer for Mac K-Meleon Konqueror Ladybird Links Lynx Maxthon Mosaic Mozilla Netscape Netscape Browser Netscape Navigator Netscape Navigator 9 NetSurf OmniWeb Opera Pale Moon Safari SeaMonkey Shiira Sleipnir surf WorldWideWeb w3m Browser ActiveX NPAPI Java Gears RSS Atom other web feed
JavaScript support Information about what JavaScript technologies the browsers support. Note that although XPath is used by XSLT, it is only considered here if it can be accessed using JavaScript. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality, e.g., Babel.
Browser JavaScript ECMAScript 3 DOM 1 DOM 2 DOM 3 XPath XMLHttpRequest Rich editing Amaya AOL Explorer Avast Secure Browser Basilisk Camino Chrome Dillo Edge ELinks Falkon Firefox Flock Galeon GNU IceCat See Firefox ESR See Firefox ESR See Firefox ESR See Firefox ESR See Firefox ESR See Firefox ESR See Firefox ESR iCab Internet Explorer Internet Explorer for Mac K-Meleon Konqueror Ladybird Links Lynx Maxthon Midori Mosaic Mozilla Netscape Netscape Browser Netscape Navigator Netscape Navigator 9 NetSurf OmniWeb Opera Pale Moon Safari SeaMonkey Shiira Sleipnir surf Web WorldWideWeb w3m Browser JavaScript ECMAScript 3 DOM 1 DOM 2 DOM 3 XPath XMLHttpRequest Rich editing
See what parts of DOM your browser supports
Protocol support Information about what Internet protocols the browsers support (in addition to HTTP that all (modern) browser should and do fully support). External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.