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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of web browsers. Please see the individual products' articles for further information.
Source: Net Applications[1] Internet Explorer (66.82%) Mozilla Firefox (22.05%) Safari (8.23%) Google Chrome (1.23%) Opera (0.70%) Other (0.97%)
[edit] Web browser history
[edit] Web browsers by year
This is a table of personal computer web browsers by year of release of major version, in chronological order, with the approximate number of worldwide Internet users in millions. Note that Internet user data is related to the entire market, not the versions released in that year. 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.[2]
See also: microbrowser
[edit] Historical web browsers
This table focuses on OS and browsers of the 1990s and turn of the century. The year listed for a version is usually the year of the first official release, with an end year being end of development, project change, or relevant termination. Releases of OS and browser from the early 1990s to before 2001-2002 time frame are the current focus.
Many early browsers can be made to run on later OS (and later browsers on early OS in some cases), however, most of these situations are avoided in the table. Terms are defined below
| Browser | Years | MS 2000/XP | 98/Me | NT | 95 | 3.1 | IBM OS/2 | Mac OS X (Intel/PPC) |
Mac OS 9 | Mac OS 8 | System 7 (PPC/68k) |
Linux | BSD | Unix (HP-UX, Solaris) |
Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Years (OS) | - | 2000/2001 | 1998 | 1993 | 1995 | 1992 | 1988 | 2001 | 1999 | 1997 | 1991 | '94(1.0)/'91 | 1993 | (1990s) | - |
| AWeb | 1996-Now | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | AmigaOS MorphOS |
| Cello | 1993-1994 | NA | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Terminated | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No |
| DocZilla | 2003-2005 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| IBM Web Explorer | 1994 | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Terminated (1.1h) | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| ICab | 1998-Now | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes (4.25) | Dropped (3.03) | Dropped (2.9.9) | Dropped (2.9.9) | No | No | No | No |
| Internet Explorer 6 (Trident) |
2001- 2004 | Terminated (6.0 SP2) Included | Dropped (6.0 SP1) | Dropped (6.0 SP1) | No | No | No | No | Dropped | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| IE 5.0 IE 4.0 |
1998-2000 1997-1998 |
Included | Included | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Dropped * (5.01 SP1) | Unknown | Dropped * (5.01 SP1) | No |
| IE 3.0 | 1996-1997 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Included | Yes | Unknown | No | Yes | Included | Yes | Yes * | Unknown | Yes * | No |
| IE 2.0 IE 1.0 |
1995 | Yes | Yes | Included (2.0) | Yes | Yes | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Beta (2.0) | No | No | No | No |
| IE Mac (IE4, Trident) (IE5, Tasman) |
1996-2003 | No | No | No | No | No | No | Terminated (5.2.3) | Dropped (5.1.7) | Dropped (5.1.7) | No | No | No | No | No |
| MacWeb | 1994-1996 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Terminated (2.0) | No | No | No | No |
| Mosaic | 1993-1997 | Terminated (3.0) | Unknown | Terminated | Terminated | Terminated | Terminated | No | Terminated (3.0) | Terminated | Terminated | Dropped (2.6) | Dropped (2.6) | Dropped (2.6) | OpenVMS |
| Mozilla (restarted SeaMonkey) |
2002-2006 | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) | Dropped | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) | Dropped (1.2.1) | Dropped (1.0.1) | No | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) | OpenVMS |
| Netscape Navigator 9 | 2008 | Terminated | Terminated | No | No | No | No | Terminated (Mac OS X v10.2) |
No | No | No | Terminated (kernel 2.2.14) |
No | No | No |
| Netscape Browser | 2004-2007 | Terminated | Terminated | Terminated | Terminated | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Netscape 7 Netscape 6 |
2000-2004 | Terminated (7.2) | Terminated (7.2) | Terminated (7.2) | Terminated (7.2) | No | No | Terminated (7.2) | Dropped (7.02) | Dropped (7.02) | Unknown | Terminated (7.2) | Terminated (7.2) | Terminated (7.2) | No |
| Netscape Communicator | 1997-2002 | Terminated (4.8) | Terminated (4.8) | Terminated (4.8) | Terminated | Terminated (4.08) | Terminated | No | Terminated (4.80) | Terminated (4.80) | Terminated (4.08) | Terminated (4.77) | Terminated | Terminated (4.77) | No |
| Netscape Navigator | 1994-1998 | Terminated (4.08) | Terminated (4.08) | Terminated | Terminated | Terminated (4.08) | Terminated | No | Terminated (4.08) | Dropped | Dropped 3.0.4 | Terminated (4.08) | Terminated (4.08) | Terminated (4.08) | OpenVMS |
| OmniWeb | 1995-Now | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Dropped (4.0) | Dropped | Dropped | No | No | No | NEXTSTEP |
| Opera | 1996-Now | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Dropped (3.62) | Dropped (5.12) | Yes | Dropped (7.54u2) | Dropped (6.03) | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes † |
| ViolaWWW | 1992 | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | X11 |
| WorldWideWeb | 1991 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | NEXTSTEP OPENSTEP |
| Browser | Years | MS 2000/XP | 98/Me | NT | 95 | 3.1 | IBM OS/2 | Mac OS X (Intel/PPC) |
Mac OS 9 | Mac OS 8 | System 7 (PPC/68k) |
Linux | BSD | Unix (HP-UX, Solaris) |
Other |
^ Cell phones, Symbian, Wii, Windows Mobile; BeOS (Dropped 3.62), QNX (Dropped 6.01)
[edit] General information
Basic general information about the browsers: creator/company, license/price etc.
- ^ There are five different products which all carry the name Netscape: Netscape versions 1 to 4, properly called Netscape Navigator, was a browser based on the original Netscape engine. Netscape 4 also was available as an Internet suite, properly called Netscape Communicator. Netscape 6 and 7 was a new Internet suite based on the Gecko engine and the Mozilla Application Suite user interface. Netscape 8, properly called Netscape Browser, was a distinct browser based on Firefox that could use either the Gecko (Firefox) or Trident (Internet Explorer) engine. Netscape resumed use of the Navigator name from Netscape Navigator 9.0 beta 1. See Netscape for more info.
[edit] Release history
A brief overview of the release history.
| Browser | First public release | First stable release | Latest stable release version date | Latest testing release version date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Version | Date | Version | |||
| Amaya | November 14, 1996 | 0.9 | November 14, 1996 | 0.9 | 11.1 (2009-01-30) | 11.2-pre (2009-03-25) |
| AOL Explorer | June, 2005 | 1.0 | July, 2005 | 1.1 | 1.5 (2006-05-10) | none (n/a) |
| Avant | August, 2004 | ? | August, 2004 | ? | 11.7 Build 26 (2009-04-15) | none (n/a) |
| Camino | February 13, 2002 | 0.1 | February 14, 2006 | 1.0 | 1.6.6 (2008-12-16) | 2.0b2 (2009-02-27) |
| Dillo | December, 1999 | 0.0.0 | December, 1999 | 0.0.0 | 2.0 (2008-10-14) | none (n/a) |
| DocZilla | May, 2003 | 1.0 | July, 2005 | 2.7pre1 | 1.0 (2003-05-31) | 2.7pre1 (2005-07-08) |
| ELinks | December, 2001 | ? | December, 2001 | ? | 0.11.6 (2009-03-21) | 0.12pre3 (2008-03-29) |
| Epiphany | December 22, 2002 | 0.4 | September 8, 2003 | 1.0 | 2.26.0 (2009-03-15) | none (n/a) |
| Flock | October 24, 2005 | 0.4.9 | November 2, 2007 | 1.0 | 2.0.3 (2008-12-24) | none (n/a) |
| Galeon | June, 2000 | 0.6 | June, 2000 | 0.6 | 2.0.7 (2008-09-27) | none (n/a) |
| Google Chrome | September 2, 2008 | 0.2.149.27 | December 11, 2008 | 1.0.154.36 | 1.0.154.53 (2009-03-23) | 2.0.172.6 (Beta) (2009-4-16)
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| iCab | February 17, 1999 | Preview 1.0 | February 17, 1999 | Preview 1.0 | 4.5 (2009-3-6) | none (n/a) |
| Internet Explorer | August, 1995 | 1.0 | August, 1995 | 1.0 | 8.0 (2009-03-19) † | none (n/a) |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | January 23, 1996 | 2.0b | April 23, 1996 | 2.0 | 5.2.3 (2003-06-16) | none (n/a) |
| K-Meleon | November 26, 2000 | 0.2 | November 26, 2000 | 0.2 | 1.5.2 (2008-12-25) | none (n/a) |
| Konqueror | October, 2000 | ? | October, 2000 | ? | 4.2.1 (2009-3-4) | none (n/a) |
| Links | November 24, 1999 | 0.8 | November 24, 1999 | 0.8 | 2.2 (2008-07-11) | none (n/a) |
| Lynx | July 8, 1993 | 2.0.10 | July 8, 1993 | 2.0.10 | 2.8.6 (2006-10-10) | 2.8.7dev.13 (2009-02-01) |
| Maxthon | July 11, 2002 | 0.1 (as MyIE2) | September 8, 2005 | 1.0.0250 | 2.1.5.1250 (2008-11-19) | none (n/a) |
| Mosaic | April 22, 1993 | 1.0 | April 22, 1993 | 1.0 | Unix: 2.6; Mac OS, Windows: 3.0 (Mac OS, paras, Unix: 1996; Windows: 1997) | none (n/a) |
| Mozilla | December 7, 1998 | "Preview" | March 19, 1999 | M3 | 1.7.13 (2006-04-21) | none (n/a) |
| Mozilla Firefox | September 23, 2002 | 0.1 | November 9, 2004 | 1.0 | 3.0.8 (2009-3-27) | 3.1 Beta 3 (2009-3-12) |
| Netscape | April 5, 2000 | 6 Preview Release 1 | November 14, 2000 | 6.0 | 7.2 (2004-08-17) | none (n/a) |
| Netscape Browser | November 30, 2004 | 0.5.6+ | May 19, 2005 | 8.0 | 8.1.3 (2007-04-02) | none (n/a) |
| Netscape Communicator | June, 1997 | 4.0 | June, 1997 | 4.0 | 4.8 (2002-08-22) | none (n/a) |
| Netscape Navigator | October 13, 1994 | 0.9 | October 13, 1994 | 0.9 | 4.08 (2009-11-09) | none (n/a) |
| Netscape Navigator 9 | June 5, 2007 | 9.0 Beta 1 | October 15, 2007 | 9.0 | 9.0.0.6 (2008-02-20) | none (n/a) |
| NetSurf | June, 2002 | 0.00 | May 19, 2007 | 1.0 | 1.2 (2008-03-22) | Public Autobuilder (n/a) |
| OmniWeb | 1994 | 0.5 | March 17, 1995 | 1.0 | 5.9.2 (2009-03-31) | none (n/a) |
| Opera | September, 1996 | 2.1b1 | December, 1996 | 2.1 | 9.64 (2009-03-02) | 10.0 Alpha Build 1413 (2009-04-03) |
| Safari | January 7, 2003 | 0.8 | June 23, 2003 | 1.0 | 3.2.1 (Macintosh) and 3.2.2 (Windows) (2009-02-12)† | 4 Public Beta (Build 528.16) (2009-02-24) |
| SeaMonkey | September 15, 2005 | 1.0a | January 30, 2006 | 1.0 | 1.1.16 (2009-04-08) | 2.0a3 (2009-03-04) |
| Shiira | May 28, 2004 | 0.9 | May 28, 2004 | 0.9 | 2.2 (2007-07-16) | none (n/a) |
| Sleipnir | June, 2005 | 2.00 alpha | Oct, 2005 | 2.00 | 2.8.3 (2008-11-10) | none (n/a) |
| WorldWideWeb | December, 1990 | ? | February 26, 1991 | ? | 0.18 (1994 ?) | none (n/a) |
| w3m | 1995 | ? | ? | ? | 0.5.2 (May 31, 2007) | none (n/a) |
| Browser | Date | Version | Date | Version | Latest stable release version date | Latest testing release version date |
| First public release | First stable release | |||||
- ^ As of February 2007, at least Windows XP SP2 or Windows Server 2003 SP2 is required to install the latest version (8.0) of Internet Explorer for Windows. Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 is the last version that supports Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0 SP6a, and Windows 2000. Internet Explorer 7 is bundled with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, Internet Explorer 8 will be part of Windows 7.
- ^ Safari is included with Mac OS X and the latest version is always available only from the OS install or OS updates.
[edit] Operating system support
The operating systems the browsers have been compiled to run on without emulation; for the given browser/OS combination, there are seven possibilities:
- No indicates that it does not exist or was never released.
- Partial indicates that while the browser works, it lacks important functionality or is extremely unstable compared to versions for other OSs (that is to say it has roughly alpha or pre-alpha quality). It is still being developed however.
- Beta indicates that while a version of the browser is fully functional and has been released, it is still in development (e.g. for stability).
- Yes indicates that the browser has been officially released in a fully functional, stable version.
- Dropped indicates that the latest stable version of the browser does not work on the operating system, although an older version is available that does. The number in parentheses is the last known stable version which was officially released for that OS.
- Included indicates that the browser comes pre-packaged as part of or has been integrated into the operating system.
Please note that the list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common OSs today (e.g. Netscape Navigator was also developed for OS/2 at a time when Mac OS X did not yet 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 Interactive televisions). Both the web browser and OS means most recent version, example: Windows Vista w/ Internet Explorer 8.
| Browser | Windows | Mac OS X | Linux | BSD | Unix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AOL Explorer | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Avant | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Camino | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Dillo | Partial | Yes | Yes† | Yes | Yes |
| DocZilla | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
| ELinks | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Epiphany | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Flock | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Galeon | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Google Chrome | Yes | Beta | No | No | No |
| iCab | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Internet Explorer | Yes | No | No | No | Dropped (5.0)† |
| K-Meleon | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Konqueror | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Links | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Lynx | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Maxthon | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | Yes† | Yes | Yes |
| NetSurf | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| OmniWeb | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Opera | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Safari | Yes | Included | No | No | No |
| SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Shiira | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Sleipnir | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| WorldWideWeb (NEXTSTEP only) | No | No | No | No | No |
| w3m | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Browser | Windows | Mac OS X | Linux | BSD | Unix |
- ^ Some version of Firefox is included in most Linux distributions utilizing GUI.
- ^ Dillo is included in some Linux distributions, i.e. Damn Small Linux and Feather Linux.
- ^ Internet Explorer for UNIX was available for Solaris and HP-UX.
[edit] Browser features
Information about what common browser features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons).
| Browser | Bookmark managing | Download managing | Password managing † | Form managing | Spell checking | Search engine toolbar | Per-site security configuration | Privacy mode | Auto-updater |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? |
| AOL Explorer | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
| Avant | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
| Camino | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes |
| Dillo | Partial | No | No | No | No | Partial | ? | ? | ? |
| DocZilla | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | No | No | Partial | No | No |
| ELinks | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
| Epiphany | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes |
| Flock | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial † | ? | Yes |
| Galeon | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | Yes |
| Google Chrome | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes |
| iCab | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
| Internet Explorer | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes | Partial † | Yes † | Yes |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
| K-Meleon | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
| Konqueror | Yes | Yes † | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
| Links | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
| Lynx | Yes | No | No | No | No † | No | ? | ? | ? |
| Maxthon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes |
| Mosaic | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
| Mozilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No† | Yes |
| Netscape | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | ? |
| Netscape Browser | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | No | Yes |
| Netscape Navigator | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | ? |
| Netscape Navigator 9 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | Yes |
| NetSurf | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? |
| OmniWeb | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial † | ? | Yes |
| Opera | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes † | Yes † | Yes | Yes | No | Notification only † |
| Safari | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes |
| SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial † | ? | Yes |
| Shiira | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
| Sleipnir | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Notification only |
| WorldWideWeb | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? |
| w3m | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
| Browser | Bookmark managing | Download managing | Password managing † | Form managing | Spell checking | Search engine toolbar | Per-site security configuration | Privacy mode | Auto-updater |
- ^ Spell checking can be added by installing an add-on like ieSpell.
- ^ Lynx is able to edit text with an external editor, which can provide spell checking.
- ^ Internet Explorer can handle per-site settings for cookies. Furthermore you can specify "trusted" and "untrusted" sites and assign pre-set rights to both categories.
- ^ Internet Explorer 8 supports InPrivate Browsing.
- ^ Mozilla based browsers like Firefox, SeaMonkey and Flock can handle per-site settings for cookies, pop-ups, add-on installs and images. For more settings you need an add-on, for example NoScript.
- ^ OmniWeb supports per-domain settings of options including support for disabling scripting, ad-blocking, java and cookies. These settings only work on top level domains.[18]
- ^ For the download manager kdenetwork needs to be installed.
- ^ On Linux and Windows, Spell checking requires GNU Aspell to be installed.
- ^ Opera can auto-complete forms with your personal information and website usernames.
- ^ Automatic updates are available in Opera 10.00 alpha (4102).
- ^ In many integrated passwordsaving tools are leaks. Often they are unsafed. eweek
- ^ Firefox 3.5 will add the Privacy mode. Current versions of Firefox can use the Stealther extension.
[edit] Accessibility features
Information about what common accessibility features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons). Browsers that haven't any ECMAScript support don't need any Pop-up blocking abilities, so that fields are marked as N/A.
| Browser | Tabbed browsing | Pop-up blocking † | Incremental finding | Ad filtering | Page zooming † | Full-text history search |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | Yes | N/A | No | No | Yes | No |
| AOL Explorer | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
| Avant | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Camino | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Dillo | Yes | N/A | No | No | No | No |
| DocZilla | Yes | Partial | Yes | No | Partial | Partial |
| ELinks | Yes | N/A | Yes | N/A | N/A | No |
| Epiphany | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | No | No |
| Flock | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Galeon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Google Chrome | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| iCab | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Internet Explorer | Yes † | Yes † | Yes † † | Partial | Yes | Yes † [19] |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| K-Meleon | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | Partial | No |
| Konqueror | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Links | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
| Lynx | No | N/A | No | N/A | N/A | No |
| Maxthon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Mosaic | No | N/A | No | No | No | No |
| Mozilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes | No [1] |
| Netscape | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | No | No |
| Netscape Browser | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | No | No |
| Netscape Navigator | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Netscape Navigator 9 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | No | No |
| NetSurf | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| OmniWeb | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Opera | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes † | Yes | Yes |
| Safari | Yes | Yes † | Yes | Yes | Partial † † | Yes (only Mac) † |
| SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | No [2] | No |
| Shiira | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
| Sleipnir | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| WorldWideWeb | No | N/A | No | No | No | No |
| w3m | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Browser | Tabbed browsing | Pop-up blocking † | Incremental finding | Ad filtering | Page zooming † | Full-text history search |
- ^ A more complete list of Pop-Up blockers and addons / programs are in the following article List of pop-up blocking software.
- ^ Page zooming is different from text resizing, as it resizes not only characters, but also multimedia objects and web page layout
- ^ Epiphany supports AdBlock as an official extension, in the epiphany-extensions package.
- ^ Opera 9 introduced a content blocker for webpages. [3]. Earlier releases support wildcard protocol/domain/path and filetype blocking using a filter.ini [4] file. More advanced Ad filtering for Opera can also be done with external software [5].
- ^ Ad filter support can be added by installing the extension Adblock Plus.
- ^ Does not allow selective blocking of pop-ups. Safari can only block all pop-ups, or none.
- ^ IE6 had no tabbed browsing support.
- ^ IE6 included pop-up blocking with Windows XP Service Pack 2 [6]
- ^ Page zooming supported in the iPhone version of Safari. Screen zooming is built in to Mac OS X.
- ^ Zooming is supported in Safari 4, which is still in beta.
- ^ For IE7, several extensions are available through the Windows Marketplace [7], including "Inline Search for Internet Explorer"[8]. This function is included in IE8 [9].
- ^ IE8 supports incremental find.
- ^ Full-text history search is available through Spotlight, a feature of the Mac OS X operating system.
- ^ Full-text history search is available through a Windows Search iFilter [19]
[edit] Accessibility features (cont.)
Information about what common accessibility features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons).
| Browser | Access keys | Tabbing navigation | Spatial navigation | Caret navigation | Mouse gesture | Text-to-speech | Voice control |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | No |
| AOL Explorer | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Avant | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| Camino | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No † | No † | No |
| Dillo | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| DocZilla | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| ELinks | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Epiphany | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No † | No | No |
| Flock | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No † | No | No |
| Galeon | ? | Yes | ? | Disabled | Yes | No | No |
| Google Chrome | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | ? |
| iCab | Yes | No | No | No | No | No † | No |
| Internet Explorer | Yes | Yes | No | Yes † | No † | Partial † | Yes † |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| K-Meleon | Yes | Yes | No | Disabled | Yes | No | No |
| Konqueror | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | No † | No |
| Links | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Lynx | ? | No | No | ? | No | No | No |
| Maxthon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Mosaic | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Mozilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | No † | Yes |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes | No † | No † | Yes |
| Netscape | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Netscape Browser | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Netscape Navigator | ? | ? | No | No | No | No | No |
| Netscape Navigator 9 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| NetSurf | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| OmniWeb | Yes | Yes | No | No | No † | Yes | Yes |
| Opera | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Safari | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No † | No † | No |
| SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Shiira | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Sleipnir | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| WorldWideWeb | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No |
| w3m | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Browser | Access keys | Tabbing navigation | Spatial navigation | Caret navigation | Mouse gesture | Text-to-speech | Voice control |
- ^ On Mac OS X systems mouse gesture support can be added by installing extensions like CocoaGestures (works with Cocoa applications)
- ^ On Mac OS X systems Text-to speech is available system-wide and is available from menu in web browsers.
- ^ Epiphany supports mouse gestures as an official extension, in the epiphany-extensions package.
- ^ Mouse gesture support is available system-wide in KDE
- ^ Text-to speech support depends on the kttsd application in the kdeaccessibility package
- ^ Mouse gesture support can be added by installing Easy Go Back add-on [10] or similar applications.
- ^ Doug Turner, the Minimo lead developer, has introduced spatial navigation to some special Firefox builds [11]. It may build as a default part of Firefox [12].
- ^ Mouse gesture support can be added by installing extensions like All-in-One Gestures (Firefox-only) [13] and Mouse Gestures [14].
- ^ Firefox works with a number of screen readers such as JAWS [15] and Microsoft SAPI 5 TTS [16] through extensions.
- ^ Internet Explorer 8 supports caret browsing.
- ^ Internet Explorer does not have built-in Text to speech/read aloud functions, however it can work with third-party screen readers.
- ^ Internet Explorer can be controlled by applications which use the operating system Speech API. A built-in application called Windows Speech Recognition ships with Windows Vista and later client versions.
[edit] Acid Scores
The Acid test is a test for browser vendors to use as a means to gauge their standards compliance. The test is run upon installation without enabling any add-ons or changing any settings. This test can be run by anyone with an Internet connection and the browser needing tested. Even if a score is 100/100, the animation must load smoothly and the final display must be exactly the same as the reference graphic. Acid 3 uses Javascript to test the functions, browser which don't have Javascript support get a no - result.
| Browser | Acid1 | Acid2 | Acid3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | ? | No | No |
| AOL Explorer | ? | No | ? |
| Avant | ? | ? | ? |
| Camino | ? | No | ? |
| Dillo | ? | No | ? |
| DocZilla | ? | No | ? |
| ELinks | ? | No | ? |
| Epiphany | ? | No | ? |
| Flock | Yes | Yes | 71/100 |
| Galeon | ? | ? | ? |
| Google Chrome | Yes | Yes | 78/100 |
| iCab | ? | Yes | ? |
| Internet Explorer | Yes | Yes | 20/100 |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | ? | No | ? |
| K-Meleon | ? | No | ? |
| Konqueror | Yes | Yes | 85/100 |
| Links | ? | No | ? |
| Lynx | ? | No | ? |
| Maxthon | ? | ? | ? |
| Mosaic | ? | No | No |
| Mozilla | ? | No | ? |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | 71/100 |
| Netscape | ? | No | ? |
| Netscape Browser | ? | No | ? |
| Netscape Navigator | ? | No | ? |
| Netscape Navigator 9 | Yes | No | 52/100 |
| NetSurf | ? | No | ? |
| OmniWeb | ? | Yes | ? |
| Opera | Yes | Yes | 85/100 |
| Safari | Yes | Yes | 75/100 † |
| SeaMonkey | Yes | No | 53/100 |
| Shiira | ? | Yes | ? |
| Sleipnir | ? | ? | ? |
| WorldWideWeb | No | No | No |
| w3m | No | No | No |
| Browser | Acid1 | Acid2 | Acid3 |
- ^ Mobile Safari reaches 72/100.
[edit] 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 1.0 † | XHTML 1.1 † | MathML | XForms | Web Forms 2.0 | VoiceXML/X+V | CSS Presentation/projection mode† |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | Yes | No | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? |
| AOL Explorer | Partial | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No † | No | No | No | ? |
| Avant | Partial | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Camino | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? |
| Dillo | No | Partial † | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| DocZilla | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | ? |
| ELinks | Partial | Yes | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Epiphany | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | No | ? |
| Flock | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Galeon | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? |
| Google Chrome | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? |
| iCab | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Internet Explorer | Yes † [20] | Yes | No † | Yes | No | No | No † | No † | No † | No | ? |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | Partial | Yes | ? | Partial | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? |
| K-Meleon | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Konqueror | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Links | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Lynx | No | Partial | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Maxthon | Partial | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Mosaic | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Mozilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | No | No† |
| Netscape | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? |
| Netscape Browser | Depends [21] | Yes | ? | Yes | Depends [21] | Depends [21] | Depends [21] | No | No | No | ? |
| Netscape Navigator | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Netscape Navigator 9 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? |
| NetSurf | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| OmniWeb | Yes | Yes | ? | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Opera | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes † | No | Yes | Yes | Yes† |
| Safari | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No† |
| SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? |
| Shiira | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Sleipnir | Partial | Yes | No † | Yes | No | No | No † | No | No † | No | ? |
| WorldWideWeb | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| w3m | ? | Yes | ? | No | Yes | ? | No | ? | No | No | ? |
| Browser | CSS2.1 † | Frames | Nav LINKs † | XSLT | XHTML 1.0 † | XHTML 1.1 † | MathML | XForms | Web Forms 2.0 | VoiceXML/X+V | CSS Presentation/projection mode† |
- ^ CSS 2, a W3C recommendation since 1998, is the current stable version of CSS, nevertheless, CSS 2.1 corrects a few errors in CSS2 (the most important being a new definition of the height/width of absolutely positioned elements, more influence for HTML's "style" attribute and a new calculation of the 'clip' property), and adds a few highly requested features which have already been widely implemented. CSS 2.1 is derived from and is intended to replace CSS 2. Conformance criteria are detailed at at the W3C website. (CSS 3 is only in draft status at present.) For more detailed information please see comparison of layout engines (CSS).
- ^ LINK as a navigational aid, as distinct from non-navigational uses of LINK.
- ^ Not in standard install, but provided by extension.[17][18]
- ^ XHTML is based on HTML but is an application of XML, which means that XHTML must be stricter than equivalent HTML code. XHTML is meant to be read by an XML parser but for backward compatibility reasons can also be parsed as HTML; this table only notes the browsers that are able to parse XHTML as XML. For more detailed information please see comparison of layout engines (XHTML).
- ^ Dillo displays frames as links that the user can click on.
- ^ Available with the MathPlayer plugin.
- ^ Available with the FormsPlayer plugin and several other plugins.
- ^ XForms is supported experimentally in nightly builds dated after January 28, 2005 [19]. Requires installation of an extension.
- ^ It is possible to use CSS to partially style MathML in Opera (see here for more). Since Opera 9.0 Technical Preview 2 (Opera 9TP2) it is also possible to use a user javascript method to support MathML (see here).
- ^ Web Forms 2.0 can be emulated in IE using DHTML behaviours, available from SourceForge.
- ^ Web Forms 2.0 functionality is currently being added to Gecko, there should be at least partial support for Gecko 1.9 (Firefox 3.0). See bug #344614.
- ^ XHTML1.1 includes RUBY (see [20]) which is not supported. There exists add-on for adding RUBY support. [21]
- ^ Presentation mode is the ability to read styles targeted to the CSS projection media type.
- ^ S5 is a CSS/Javascript alternative for browsers that don't support a presentation mode.
- ^ Opera switches to presentation mode on full screen. [22]
- ^ Internet Explorer 8 has full CSS2.1 support. [20]
[edit] Mobile 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 | C-HTML | HDML | I-mode | XHTML Mobile Profile | WML |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
| AOL Explorer | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
| Avant | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
| Camino | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
| Dillo | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
| DocZilla | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
| ELinks | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Epiphany | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
| Flock | Partial † | No | No | Partial † | No † |
| Galeon | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
| Google Chrome | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
| iCab | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
| Internet Explorer | ? | ? | ? | No † | No † |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
| Internet Explorer Mobile | ? | ? | ? | Yes † | Yes |
| K-Meleon | Partial † | No | No | Partial † | No |
| Konqueror | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
| Links | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
| Lynx | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
| Maxthon | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
| Microsoft Mobile Explorer | Yes † | ? | Yes † | Yes † | Yes † |
| Mosaic | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
| Mozilla | Partial † | No | No | Partial † | No † |
| Mozilla Firefox | Partial † | No | No | Partial † | No † |
| Netscape | ? | No | No | ? | No |
| Netscape Browser | ? | No | No | ? | No |
| Netscape Navigator | ? | No | No | ? | No |
| Netscape Navigator 9 | ? | No | No | ? | No |
| NetSurf | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
| OmniWeb | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
| Opera | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Safari | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
| SeaMonkey | Partial † | No | No | Partial † | No † |
| Shiira | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
| Sleipnir | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
| WorldWideWeb | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| w3m | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
| Browser | C-HTML | HDML | I-mode | XHTML Mobile Profile | WML |
- ^ Gecko-based browsers render C-HTML and XHTML Mobile Profile as an ordinary XHTML. In most cases this is quite enough to browse mobile Web.
- ^ Gecko-based browsers don't support WML natively, this issue is being discussed at bug 35995. There is an extension called wmlbrowser [23], [24] which adds a partial WML support to Firefox, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite and Flock (without card navigation and WMLScript). In most cases this is quite enough to browse mobile Web.
- ^ Internet Explorer Mobile 6 supports XHTML Mobile Profile.
- ^ Microsoft Mobile Explorer was discontinued in 2002. [22]
[edit] 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. Java support is for built-in support by the browser without the plugin from SUN.
| Browser | ActiveX † | NPAPI † | Java | Gears | RSS | Atom | other web feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | No | ? | ? | No | No | No | ? |
| AOL Explorer | Yes | No | ? | No | Yes † | Yes † | ? |
| Avant | Yes | No | ? | ? | Yes † | Yes † | ? |
| Camino | No | Yes | ? | ? | Partial | Partial | ? |
| DocZilla | No | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | ? |
| Dillo | No | ? | ? | No | No | No | ? |
| ELinks | No | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? |
| Epiphany | No | ? | ? | ? | No † | No † | ? |
| Flock | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Galeon | No | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | ? |
| Google Chrome | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? |
| iCab | No | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? |
| Internet Explorer | Yes | No † | Yes | Yes | Yes † | Yes † | Yes † |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | No | Yes | ? | No | No | No | No |
| K-Meleon | No | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Konqueror | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes † | Yes † | ? |
| Links | No | ? | ? | No | No | No | ? |
| Lynx | No | ? | ? | No | No | No | No |
| Maxthon | Yes | No | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Mosaic | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No |
| Mozilla | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Mozilla Firefox | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Netscape | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Netscape Browser | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Netscape Navigator | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Netscape Navigator 9 | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
| NetSurf | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| OmniWeb | No | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Opera | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Safari | No | Yes | ? | Partial† | Yes | Yes | ? |
| SeaMonkey | No | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | ? |
| Shiira | No | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Sleipnir | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes † | Yes † | ? |
| WorldWideWeb | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No |
| w3m | No | No | ? | No | No | No | ? |
| Browser | ActiveX † | NPAPI † | Java | Gears | RSS | Atom | other web feed |
- ^ Internet Explorer (and Shells) is the only browser to natively support the Component Object Model (popularly known as ActiveX). Most other browsers use the NPAPI plugin architecture. ActiveX is more powerful than NPAPI in terms of the control it affords over the browser, but it is specific to Windows whereas NPAPI is cross-platform. There is a third-party plugin that adds partial ActiveX support, that is available for certain older versions of Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Firefox and Netscape Navigator. The default settings in earlier versions of Internet Explorer allowed the automatic download, installation, and running of new ActiveX controls with minimal user intervention - this made it possible to use ActiveX on web pages to install viruses, spyware, etc. onto a user's computer.
- ^ Internet Explorer 7 and later
- ^ RSS and ATOM feed autodetection in Konqueror depends on the aKregator package which is installed with kdepim.
- ^ RSS and ATOM feed autodetection in Epiphany depends on the Newsfeed extension which is included with Epiphany-extensions.
- ^ Safari has only on Mac OS X 10.4+ Gears support. At the moment Windows isn't supported
- ^ Internet Explorer did for a time support NPAPI plugins. Plugins that functioned in the Netscape browser also functioned in Internet Explorer. This was due to a small ActiveX control implemented within a "plugin.ocx" file that acted as a shim between the ActiveX based browser and the NPAPI plugin. The IE browser would load the control and use it to host plugins specified within the page. However, Microsoft made the claim that the NPAPI plugins (or the IE implementation of the API) were a security issue and dropped support for them in version 5.5 SP2.[23] [24] [25]
- ^ Internet Explorer 8 supports syndicated content in
hAtom/hSlicemicroformat by the name of a feature known as Web Slices.
[edit] 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.
| Browser | JavaScript | ECMAScript 3 | DOM 1 | DOM 2 | DOM 3 | XPath | DHTML | XMLHttpRequest | Rich editing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | No † | No † | No † | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| AOL Explorer | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Avant | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Camino | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dillo | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| DocZilla | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| ELinks | Partial | Partial | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Epiphany | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Flock | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Galeon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Google Chrome | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| iCab | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Internet Explorer | Yes | Yes | Partial | No † | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| K-Meleon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Konqueror | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Links | Partial | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Lynx | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Maxthon | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mosaic | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Mozilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial † | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Netscape | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Netscape Browser | Yes | Yes | Depends [21] | Depends [21] | No † | Depends [21] | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Netscape Navigator | Yes | Partial | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| Netscape Navigator 9 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| NetSurf | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| OmniWeb | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Opera | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Safari | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial † | Yes † | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Shiira | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Sleipnir | Yes | Yes | Partial | No † | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| WorldWideWeb | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| w3m | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Browser | JavaScript | ECMAScript 3 | DOM 1 | DOM 2 | DOM 3 | XPath | DHTML | XMLHttpRequest | Rich editing |
- ^ Internet Explorer 5 and above has its own event registration model and its own style sheets model, but these are incompatible with DOM 2.
- ^ XPath is a part of DOM 3, but is considered separately here. A large subset of DOM 3 is accessible by extensions but not by websites.
- ^ SVG / XPath / (partial) DOM 3 is only available in the WebKit nightlies so far.
- ^ It is possible to compile Amaya with javascript enabled, using the CVS version and SpiderMonkey. However, this is still experimental and only a small subset of DOM 1 is available.
See what parts of DOM your browser supports.
[edit] Protocol support
Information about what internet protocols the browsers support. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.
| Browser | HTTP | E-mail † | FTP † | NNTP (Usenet) † | SSL | EV | IRC | Gopher | IDN | data: URL | BitTorrent | IPv6 | Proxy possibilities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | No | ? | ? |
| AOL Explorer | Yes † | No | Yes | No | Partial † | Yes | No | No † | No † | No | No | Yes | ? |
| Avant | Yes † | No | Yes | No | Partial † | Yes | No | No † | No † | No | No | Yes | ? |
| Camino | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| Dillo | Yes | No | Yes | No | No † | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| DocZilla | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes | ? | ? | No | ? | Yes |
| ELinks | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Epiphany | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| Flock | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No † | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| Galeon | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| Google Chrome | Yes | No | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? |
| iCab | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? |
| Internet Explorer | Yes † | No | Yes | No | Partial † | Yes | No | No † | Yes † | Partial † | No | Yes | Yes |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | Partial † | No | Yes | No | Partial † | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? |
| K-Meleon | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| Konqueror | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | No † | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Links | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Lynx | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | No | No | Yes | ? |
| Maxthon | Yes † | No | Yes | No | Partial † | Yes | No | No † | Yes † | No | No | Yes | ? |
| Mosaic | Partial † | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Mozilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes † | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | No | Yes | No † | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes | Yes † | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Netscape | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No † | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? |
| Netscape Browser | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Depends [21] | Depends [21] | Depends [21] | No | ? | ? |
| Netscape Navigator | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? |
| Netscape Navigator 9 | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No † | Yes | Yes † | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| NetSurf | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| OmniWeb | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes[26] | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| Opera | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes | Yes | Yes[25] | Yes[26] | Yes |
| Safari | Yes | No | Partial | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes † | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Shiira | Yes | No | ? | ? | Yes | ? | No | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes | ? |
| Sleipnir | Yes † | No | Yes | No | Partial † | Yes | No | No † | Yes † | No | No | Yes | ? |
| WorldWideWeb | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| w3m | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes | ? | ? | No | ? | ? |
| Browser | HTTP | E-mail † | FTP † | NNTP (Usenet) † | SSL | EV | IRC | Gopher | IDN | data: URL | BitTorrent | IPv6 | Proxy possibilities |
- ^ Many browsers have purposely avoided support for e-mail, as this is reserved for their mail-client counterparts. For a comparison of such counterparts see Comparison of e-mail clients.
- ^ Many browsers have FTP support as read-only and have no upload capitilies. Read-only is marked as yes. For a comparison of clients that support upload opportunities see Comparison of FTP client software.
- ^ Many browsers have purposely avoided support for e-mail and newsgroups, as these are reserved for their mail-client counterparts. For a comparison of such counterparts see comparison of e-mail clients and Comparison of Usenet newsreaders.
- ^ Support for 256-bit Ciphers (AES for example) for SSL/TLS is only avaliable in Windows Vista and above[27][28]
- ^ Mosaic reached only HTTP 0.9 compliance, and does not support secure communications in any way.
- ^ IRC support can be added by installing ChatZilla.
- ^ Includes a proxy capability for gopher support.
- ^ Internet Explorer 7 and later support IDN, [27]. IE6 IDN support can be added by installing VeriSign i-Nav Plug-In.
- ^ Internet Explorer 7 has no support of gopher; gopher support is disabled in IE6
- ^ For security reasons, IDN domains are displayed as punycode if they contain certain characters or if the top level domain hasn't been whitelisted [28].
- ^ Konqueror has full Gopher support when the kgopher KIO plugin is installed.
- ^ NNTP support can be added by installing the Add On infoRSS.
- ^ Dillo has experimental SSL integration that is by standard turned off.[29] There is no certificate caching and NO AUTHENTICATION performed.
- ^ Microsoft has limited support to certain "non-navigable" content, such as in
<img>tags and CSS rules, for security reasons, including concerns that JavaScript embedded in a data URI may not be interpretable by script filters such as those used by web-based email clients.[29]
[edit] Image format support
Information about what image formats the browsers support. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.
| Browser | JPEG | JPEG 2000 | GIF | PNG | APNG | MNG | TIFF † | SVG † | PDF † | 2D Canvas | XBM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Partial | No | No | ? |
| AOL Explorer | Partial † | No | Yes | Partial † | No | No | disable | No | No | No † | No † |
| Avant | Partial † | No | Yes | Partial † | No | No | disable | No | No | No † | No † |
| Camino | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Partial † | No | No | Yes |
| Dillo | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| DocZilla | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | Partial | No | ? | Yes |
| ELinks | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Epiphany | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Partial † † | No † | Yes † | Yes |
| Flock | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Partial † | No | Yes | Yes |
| Galeon | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Google Chrome | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | ? | No | Partial | No | Yes | ? |
| iCab | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | ? |
| Internet Explorer | Partial † | No | Yes | Partial † | No | No | disable | No | Yes | No † | No † |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| K-Meleon | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Konqueror | Yes | Yes † | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Partial † | Yes † | No | ? |
| Links | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| Lynx | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Maxthon | Partial † | No | Yes | Partial † | No | No | disable | No | No | No † | No † |
| Mosaic | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Mozilla | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Dropped † | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Partial † | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Netscape | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Netscape Browser | Yes | No | Yes | Depends [21] | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Netscape Navigator | Yes | No | Partial | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Netscape Navigator 9 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Partial | No | Yes | Yes |
| NetSurf | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Partial | No | No | No |
| OmniWeb | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Partial | No | No | Yes |
| Opera | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Partial † | Yes (Mac only) | Yes | Yes |
| Safari | Yes | Yes † | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Partial † | Yes (Mac only) | Yes | Yes |
| SeaMonkey | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Partial † | No | Yes | Yes |
| Shiira | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Partial | No | Partial | Yes |
| Sleipnir | Partial † | No | Yes | Partial † | No | No | disable | No | No | No † | No † |
| WorldWideWeb | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| w3m | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| Browser | JPEG | JPEG 2000 | GIF | PNG | APNG | MNG | TIFF † | SVG † | PDF † | 2D Canvas | XBM |
- ^ Konqueror supports JPEG2000 if KDE's viewer is compiled with Jasper library.
- ^ Internet Explorer does not support progressive display of progressive JPEG.
- ^ Internet Explorer support for XBM files was removed in Version 6.
- ^ Internet Explorer supports PNG images but is unable to correctly display images with gamma correction or color correction. Versions of Internet Explorer prior to version 7 are unable to correctly display images with alpha channel (for transparency) without additional coding [30].
- ^ Support of MNG/JNG was dropped since June 6, 2003 [31] [32]. There are unofficial builds with MNG/JNG called Mngzilla [33].
- ^ Most browsers support TIFF by using a plugin installed by the user.
- ^ SVG here refers to SVG 1.1 Full. There are also two simplified profiles known as SVG 1.1 Tiny and SVG 1.1 Basic, which are intended for user agents with limited capabilities.
- ^ KDE has developed its own SVG plugin for Konqueror, known as KSVG [34]. KSVG1 development has ended, but work on the next-generation KDOM-based KSVG2 has been very active [35]. KSVG2 is slated to be moved into the core KDE [36] meaning at some point KSVG2 should become part of Konqueror.
- ^ Firefox and SeaMonkey partially support SVG 1.1 Full. Modules that are implemented or not implemented and details of their implementation: [37].
- ^ Opera supports SVG 1.1 Basic. [38]
- ^ Safari supports JPEG2000 through QuickTime plugin, which is an optional software bundle for Safari installation on Windows, and an integrated component in Mac OS.
- ^ Safari 3 is able to render SVG documents, but not fully [39].
- ^ Most browsers support PDF by installing an Adobe plugin which takes over the browser window. Listed here are browsers which also support inline PDFs within other hypertext documents (such as within HTML's <img/> tag). Note that PDF (in strictly speaking) is not an image format, but a scriptable rich text document format that can contain different types of multimedia content, including vector and bitmap graphics, audio, video, forms, intra- and inter-document hypertext links and a hierarchical contents listing. The format is also the native display format under Mac OS X.
- ^ Inline PDF viewing in Konqueror requires KPDF which is included in kdegraphics.
- ^ Internet Explorer can be made to emulate canvas using the script provided by Google.
- ^ Support for these features depends on the version of the Gecko rendering engine that Epiphany was built with.
- ^ With the addition of the new Cairo version in Gecko 1.9 it will be natively possible to save pages to PDFs but not read them. Whether this feature will be included in Firefox 3.0 or later has yet to be specified it is however possible with the new Cairo backend.
[edit] Internationalization
Most browsers are available in more than one language.
| Browser | Languages | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Amaya | English (en), French (fr), Finnish (fi), German (de), Italian (it), Portuguese (pt), Russian (ru), Spanish (es), Chinese (zh-cn and zh-tw), Turkish (tr), Slovak (sk), Russian (ru), Norwegian (no), Georgian (ka), Japanese (jp), Hungarian (hu) | 16 |
| AOL Explorer | English (en), French (fr), German (de) | 3 |
| Avant | English (en), Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Chinese Traditional, Danish, Dutch, French, Frisian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, UK English, Ukrainian | 27 |
| Camino | Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) (zh), Czech (cz), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en), French (fr), German (de), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Lithuanian (lt), Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk) (nb, nn), Portuguese (pt), Slovak (sk), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv) | 17 |
| Dillo | English (en) , Japanese (ja), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) | 4 |
| DocZilla | English (en) | 1 |
| ELinks | Bulgarian (bg), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), English (en), French (fr), German (de), Hungarian (hu), Italian (it), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Slovak (sk), Ukrainian (uk) | 13 |
| Epiphany | Amharic (am), Arabic (ar), Azerbaijani (az), Belarusian (be), Belarusian Latin (be@Latin), Bulgarian (bg), Bengali (bn), Bosnian (bs), Catalan (ca), Czech (cs), Welsh (cy), Danish (da), German (de), Dzongkha (dz), Greek (el), English (en), Spanish (es), Estonian (et), Basque (eu), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), French (fr), Irish (ga), Galician (gl), Gujarati (gu), Hebrew (he), Hindi (hi), Croatian (hr), Hungarian (hu), Indonesian (id), Icelandic (is), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Georgian (ka), Korean (ko), Kurdish (ku), Limburgian (li), Lithuanian (lt), Latvian (lv), Malagasy (mg), Maori (mi), Macedonian (mk), Malayalam (ml), Mongolian (mn), Marathi (mr), Malay (ms), Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk) (no/nb/nn), Nepali (ne), Dutch (nl), Oriya (or), Punjabi (pa), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Romanian (ro), Russian (ru), Kinyarwanda (rw), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Albanian (sq), Serbian (sr), Swedish (sv), Tamil (ta), Telugu (te), Thai (th), Turkmen (tk), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Walloon (wa), Chinese (zh) | 70 |
| Flock | Arabic (ar), Chinese (Simplified) (zh-CN), Chinese (Traditional) (zh-TW), English (en), Finnish (fi), French (fr), Georgian (ka), German (de), Hungarian (hu), Korean (ko), Polish (pl), Portuguese (Portugal) (pt-PT), Russian (ru), Slovak (sk), Spanish (Latin American) (es-AR), Spanish (Spain) (es-ES) | 16 |
| Galeon | Amharic (am), Azerbaijani (az), Belarusian (be), Bulgarian (bg), Bosnian (bs), Catalan (ca), Czech (cs), Danish (da), German (de), Greek (el), English (en), Spanish (es), Estonian (et), Basque (eu), Finnish (fi), French (fr), Irish (ga), Galician (gl), Croatian (hr), Hungarian (hu), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Lithuanian (lt), Latvian (lv), Macedonian (mk), Malayalam (ml), Mongolian (mn), Malay (ms), Dutch (nl), Norwegian Nynorsk (nn), Norwegian Bokmål (nb/no), Punjabi (pa), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Romanian (ro), Russian (ru), Kinyarwanda (rw), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Albanian (sq), Serbian (sr), Swedish (sv), Tamil (ta), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Walloon (wa), Chinese (Simplified) (zh) | 49 |
| Google Chrome | Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK/US), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish for Latin America, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese | 43 |
| iCab | German (de), English (en), Japanese (ja), Danish (da), French (fr), Spanish (es), Russian (ru), Norwegian (no), Chinese (Simplified) (zh) | 9 |
| Internet Explorer | Arabic (ar), Bulgarian (bg), Catalan (ca), Chinese (Simplified) (zh), Chinese (Traditional) (zh), Chinese (Hong Kong) (zh), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), French (fr), German (de), Greek (el), Hebrew (he), Hindi (hi),Hungarian (hu), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Latvian (lv), Lithuanian (lt), Norwegian (nb), Polish (pl), Portuguese(pt), Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian (ro), Russian (ru), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), Thai (th), Turkish (tr) | 33 |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | Deutsch (de) English (en) Español (es) Français (fr) Italiano (it) 日本語 (ja) Svenska (sv) | 7 |
| K-Meleon | English (en), German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr), Russian (ru) | 5 |
| Konqueror | Afrikaans (af), Arabic (ar), Belarusian (be), Bulgarian (bg), Bengali (bn), Bosnian (bs), Catalan (ca), Chinese (zh), Chinese (Simplified) (zh), Czech (cs), Welsh (cy), Danish (da), German (de), Greek (el), English (en), Esperanto (eo), Spanish (es), Estonian (et), Basque (eu), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), French (fr), Galician (gl), Hebrew (he), Hindi (hi), Croatian (hr), Hungarian (hu), Icelandic (is), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Mongolian (mn), Malay (ms), Norwegian (nb), Dutch (nl), Norwegian Nynorsk (nn), Punjabi (pa), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Romanian (ro), Russian (ru), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Serbian (sr), Swedish (sv), Tamil (ta), Tajik (tg), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk), Uzbek (uz) | 40 |
| Links | Belarusian (be), Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br), Bulgarian (bg), Catalan (ca), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), French (fr), Galician (gl), German (de), Greek (el), Hungarian (hu), Icelandic (is), Indonesian )id), Italian (it), Lithuanian (lt), Norwegian (no), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Romanian (ro), Russian (ru), Serbian (sr), Slovak (sk), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk), Upper Sorbian (sb) | 32 |
| Lynx | Catalan (ca), Czech (cs), Danish (da), German (de), Estonian (et), English (en), French (fr), Hungarian (hu), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Dutch (nl), Portuguese (Brazilian) (pt), Russian (ru), Kinyarwanda (rw), Slovenian (sl), Swedish (sv), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) (zh) | 21 |
| Maxthon | Arabic (ar), Bosnian (bs), Belarusian (be), Bulgarian (bg), Chinese (zh), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en), Estonian (et), Persian(fa), Finnish (fi), French (fr), Frisian, Galego, German (de), Greek (el), Hebrew (he), Hungarian (hu), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Lithuanian (lt), Malay (ms), Milanes, Norwegian (nb), Piemonteis, Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Portuguese (Brazilian) (pt), Romanian (ro), Romano, Russian (ru), Serbian Cyrillic (sr), Serbian Latin (sr), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Spanish (es), Spanish (Argentina) (es), Swedish (sv), Thai (th), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk) | 42 |
| Mosaic | English (en) | 1 |
| Mozilla | Catalan (ca), Chinese (zh), Czech (cs), Danish (da), English (en), Finnish (fi), French (fr), German (de), Greek (el), Hebrew (iw), Irish (ga), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Lithuanian (lt), Macedonian (mk), Norwegian (no), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Punjabi (pa), Romanian (ro), Russian (ru), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), Turkish (tr), Welsh (cy) | 28 |
| Mozilla Firefox | Afrikaans (af), Albanian (sq), Arabic (ar), Asturian (ast), Basque (eu), Belarusian (be), Bengali (bn), Bulgarian (bg), Catalan (ca), Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) (zh), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (UK/US) (en), Esperanto (eo), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), French (fr), Frisian (fy), Galician (gl), Georgian (ka), German (de), Greek (el), Gujarati (gu), Hebrew (iw), Hindi(hi), Hungarian (hu), Icelandic (is), Indonesian (id), Irish (ga), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Kannada (kn), Korean (ko), Kurdish (ku), Latvian (lv), Lithuanian (lt), Macedonian (mk), Marathi (mr), Mongolian (mn), Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk) (no), Occitan (oc), Polish (pl), Portuguese (Brazilian and Portugal) (pt), Punjabi (pa), Romanian (ro), Russian (ru), Serbian (sr), Sinhala (si), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Spanish (Argentina or Latin America and Spain) (es), Swedish (sv), Telugu (te), Thai (th), Turkish (tr),Ukrainian (uk), Welsh (cy) | 62 |
| Netscape | Chinese (zh), English (en), French (fr), German (de), Japanese (ja), Portuguese (br), Spanish (es) | 7 |
| Netscape Browser | English (en), Canadian English | 2 |
| Netscape Navigator | Brazilian Portuguese (br), Chinese (zh), Czech (cs), English (en), Danish (da), Finnish (fi), French (fr), German (de), Greek (el), Hungarian (hu), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Norwegian (no), Polish (pl), Russian (ru), Slovenian (sl), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), Turkish (tr) | 20 |
| Netscape Navigator 9 | English (en) | 1 |
| NetSurf | Dutch (nl), English (en), French (fr), German (de) | 4 |
| OmniWeb | Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en), French (fr), German (de), Japanese (ja), Swedish (sv) | 7 |
| Opera | Belarusian (be), Bulgarian (bg), Catalan (ca), Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) (zh), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en-GB, en-US), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), French (fr-FR, fr-CA), Frisian (fy), Georgian(ka), German (de), Greek (el), Hindi (hi), Hungarian (hu), Indonesian (id), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Lithuanian (lt), Macedonian (mk), Nynorsk Norwegian (no-nn), Bokmål Norwegian (no-bn), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt, pt-BR), Russian (ru), Spanish (es-ES, es-LA), Swedish (sv), Tamil (ta), Telugu (te), Turkish (tr) | 39 |
| Safari | Dutch (nl), English (en), French (fr), German (de), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Spanish (es), Danish (da), Finnish (fi), Korean (ko), Norwegian (no), Portuguese (pt), Swedish (sv), Chinese (zh) | 14 |
| SeaMonkey | Basque (eu), Belarusian (be), Catalan (ca), Czech (cs), English (en), French (fr), Georgian (ka), German (de), Italian (it), Norwegian Bokmål (no-nb), Polish (pl), Russian (ru), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), Turkish (tr) | 15 |
| Shiira | Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) (zh), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en), Finnish (fi), French (fr), German (de), Italian (it), Korean (ko), Norwegian (no), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Slovak (sk), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv) | 15 |
| Sleipnir | Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) (zh), English (en), 日本語 (ja) | 3 |
| WorldWideWeb | English (en) | 1 |
| w3m | English (en), French (fr), German (de), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Spanish (es), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Swedish (sv) | 9 |
| Browser | Languages | Total |
- Sources - Amaya Camino Dillo Elinks iCab Internet Explorer Epiphany Flock K-Meleon Netscape Netscape Navigator OmniWeb Opera
[edit] Vulnerabilities
This comparison of unpatched publicly known vulnerabilities in latest stable version browsers is based on vulnerabilities reports by SecurityFocus and Secunia. See computer security for more details about the importance of unpatched known flaws.
| Browser | Known unpatched vulnerabilities | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secunia | SecurityFocus | |||||
| Extremely critical (number / oldest) |
Highly critical (number / oldest) |
Moderately critical (number / oldest) |
Less critical (number / oldest) |
Not critical (number / oldest) |
(number / oldest) | |
| Google Chrome | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 March 13, 2009 |
| Internet Explorer 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 November 17, 2004 |
9 February 27, 2004 |
9 November 7, 2003 |
396 November 20, 2000 |
| Internet Explorer 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 October 30, 2006 |
5 June 6, 2006 |
3 June 14, 2007 |
15 May 17, 2007 |
| Internet Explorer 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 April 11, 2009 |
| Mozilla Firefox | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 March 3, 2009 |
0 | 0 |
| OmniWeb | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 † January 16, 2007 |
| Opera | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 March 30, 2009 |
| Safari | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 April 24, 2008 |
0 | 0 |
| SeaMonkey | 0 | 1 February 4, 2009 |
0 | 0 | 1 June 1, 2007 |
0 |
| Browser | Extremely critical (number / oldest) |
Highly critical (number / oldest) |
Moderately critical (number / oldest) |
Less critical (number / oldest) |
Not critical (number / oldest) |
(number / oldest) |
| Secunia | SecurityFocus | |||||
| Known unpatched vulnerabilities | ||||||
- ^ SecurityFocus does not currently contain a section for the latest version of OmniWeb (5.8).
[edit] See also
- List of web browsers
- Comparison of layout engines
- Comparison of layout engines (XML)
- Comparison of layout engines (XHTML)
- Comparison of layout engines (graphics)
- Comparison of layout engines (CSS)
- Comparison of layout engines (DOM)
- Comparison of layout engines (HTML5)
- Comparison of layout engines (ECMAScript)
- Comparison of layout engines (SVG)
- Timeline of web browsers
- List of pop-up blocking software
- Comparison of feed aggregators
[edit] References
- ^ Market share for browsers, operating systems and search engines
- ^ History and Growth of the Internet http://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm Accessed January 18, 2009
- ^ History and Growth of the Internet http://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm Accessed January 12, 2008
- ^ "Eolas releases WebRouser via the Internet". Eolas Information. September 18, 1995. http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1995q3/0566.html. Retrieved on 2007-10-18.
- ^ "Oracle Introduces PowerBrowser". Oracle Corporation. June 18, 1996. http://www.ncns.com/browser.html. Retrieved on 2007-10-31.
- ^ Opera Software (1998-05-12). Opera Software Releases 3.60. Press release. http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/1999/05/19990512.dml. Retrieved on 2008-02-19.
- ^ Opera 4.0 for Windows Released. Press release. 2000-06-27. http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2000/06/27/. Retrieved on 2008-12-10.
- ^ Opera 4.0 for Windows Released. Press release. 2000-06-27. http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2000/06/27/. Retrieved on 2008-12-10.
- ^ Opera Software (2000-12-06). The Browser War Lights Up in Europe. Press release. http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2000/12/06_2/. Retrieved on 2008-12-10.
- ^ Opera Software (2001-11-29). Opera 6.0 for Windows launched after record-breaking beta. Press release. http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2001/11/20011129.dml. Retrieved on 2008-02-19.
- ^ Opera Software (2003-01-28). Opera 7 Ready to Rock the Web. Press release. http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2003/01/28/. Retrieved on 2008-02-19.
- ^ Opera Software (2005-04-19). Speed, Security and Simplicity: Opera 8 Web Browser Released Today. Press release. http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2005/04/19/. Retrieved on 2008-02-19.
- ^ Opera Software (2006-06-20). Your Web, Your Choice: Opera 9 Gives You the Control. Press release. http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2006/06/20/. Retrieved on 2008-12-10.
- ^ "Opera redefines Web browsing yet again". Opera Software. 2008-06-12. http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2008/06/12/. Retrieved on 2008-06-12.
- ^ Article ID : 164539; Section Internet Explorer for Macintosh or Windows 3.1 ; http://support.microsoft.com/kb/164539 Accessed March 1, 2007
- ^ Netscape Browser Archive :: Netscape Navigator Web Browser
- ^ License Terms for Internet Explorer
- ^ "OmniWeb / Site Preferences". The Omni Group. http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/. Retrieved on 2008-06-20.
- ^ a b Availability and functionality of the Windows Desktop Search: Add-in for Internet Explorer History
- ^ a b CSS Improvements in Internet Explorer 8
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Depends on the layout engine which is chosen: Trident or Gecko.
- ^ Microsoft Mobile Explorer 3.0 Provides Tomorrow's WAP 2.0 Functionality Today
- ^ Netscape-style plug-ins do not work after upgrading Internet Explorer
- ^ Giannandrea, J. (September 4, 2001) Microsoft breaks Web Plugins in Windows XP.
- ^ Description of Internet Explorer Support for Netscape-Style Plug-ins
- ^ "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: OmniWeb 5.9.2 now includes Gopher support!". OmniGroup. 2009-04-01. http://blog.omnigroup.com/2009/04/01/for-immediate-release-omniweb-592-now-includes-gopher-support/. Retrieved on 2009-04-03.
- ^ TLS/SSL Cryptographic Enhancements
- ^ "Windows Internet Explorer 8 Expert Zone Chat (August 14, 2008)". Microsoft. August 14, 2008. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/chats/transcripts/08_0814_ez_ie8.mspx. Retrieved on 2009-03-27.
- ^ "data Protocol". MSDN. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc848897%28VS.85%29.aspx. Retrieved on 2009-01-05.
- Amaya release history
- AOL Explorer release notes
- Arlington Kiosk Browser release history
- Camino 1.5.5 release notes
- Epiphany News
- Firefox 2.0.0.12 release notes
- iCab Information
- Konqueror news
- Mozilla 1.7.13 release notes
- Netscape Browser release notes
- Opera changelogs
- Information on WorldWideWeb
- Dillo changelog
- Internet Explorer 7 Team blog
- NetSurf information
- Google Chrome for Mac Official Website
- Google Chrome for Mac at LifeHacker
[edit] External links
- ACID2 test results (wiki)
- Understanding the Web browser threat by Stefan Frei et al
- Browser share on w3schools.com
- Browser speed comparisons
- Web Standard support (detailed)
- Web browser security summary
- Browser capabilities registry (detailed, in progress)
- Which New Browser Is Best: Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 7, or Opera 9?
- BBC News: Internet Explorer 7.0 and Firefox 2.0 Go Head-to-Head
- Freeware Browsers - A Freeware Graphical Web Browser Guide for Windows
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