Comparison of web browsers
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| HTML |
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| Market Share for February, 2007 [1] |
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| IE6 - 49% |
| IE7 - 29% |
| Firefox - 14% |
| Safari - 5% |
| Opera - 0.8% |
| Netscape - 0.7% |
| Mozilla - 0.2% |
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of web browsers. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date.
[edit] Web browsers by year
This is a table of personal computer web browsers by year of release of major version, in descending 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 then the entire market early on. For example, 90% market share in 1997 would be roughly 60 million users, but by the start of 2007 90% market share would equate to over 900 million users.[2]
See also microbrowser
[edit] General information
Basic general information about the browsers: creator/company, license/price etc.
- ^ There are four 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, is a new browser based on Firefox that can use both the Gecko (Firefox) and Trident (Internet Explorer) engines. See Netscape for more info.
[edit] Release history
A brief overview of the release history.
- ^ As of February 2007, at least Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 is required to install the latest version (v7) 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.
- ^ 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.
- Terminated indicates that while the browser works (e.g. Internet Explorer for Mac), development has ceased and no new versions will be released; the number in parentheses is the last known stable version.
- 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 (e.g.the Opera 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).
| Browser | Windows | Mac OS X | Mac OS 9 | Linux | BSD | Unix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AOL Explorer | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Avant | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Camino | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Dillo | Partial | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ELinks | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Epiphany | No | Yes[citation needed] | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Flock | Beta | Beta | No | Beta | No | No |
| Galeon | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| iCab | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Internet Explorer (Trident) | Included | No | No | No | No | Dropped (5.0) |
| Internet Explorer for Mac (Tasman) | No | Terminated (5.2.3) | Dropped (5.1.7) | No | No | No |
| K-Meleon | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Konqueror | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Links | Partial | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Lynx | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Maxthon | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Mosaic | Terminated (3.0) | No | Terminated (3.0) | Dropped (2.6) | Dropped (2.6) | Dropped (2.6) |
| Mozilla | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) | Dropped (1.2.1)[4] | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) | Terminated (1.7.13) |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Netscape | Terminated (7.2) | Terminated (7.2) | Dropped (7.02) | Terminated (7.2) | Terminated (7.2) | Terminated (7.2) |
| Netscape Browser | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Netscape Communicator | Terminated (4.80) | No | Terminated (4.80) | Terminated (4.80) | Terminated (4.80) | Terminated (4.80) |
| Netscape Navigator | Terminated (4.08) | No | Terminated (4.08) | Terminated (4.08) | Terminated (4.08) | Terminated (4.08) |
| OmniWeb | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Opera | Yes | Yes | Dropped (6.03) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Safari | No | Included | No | No | No | No |
| SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Shiira | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| WorldWideWeb (NEXTSTEP only) | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| w3m | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
[edit] Early Web Browsers and OS
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.Note, 'terminated' means the same as yes, it was supported in the final release but development stopped. Dropped means that major development has ended but development on other versions continued, while the reverse situation of added is not yet shown.
| 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) | - |
| ICab | 1998-Now | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes (3.03) | Yes | Yes (9.22) | Yes (2.99) | 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 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| IE 5.0 IE 4.0 |
1998-2000 1997-1998 |
Included | Included | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Dropped (5.2.3) Included | Dropped (5.2.3) Included | Dropped (5.1.7) | Dropped (5.1.7) | 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 |
| Internet Explorer for Mac (Tasman) |
1997-2003 | No | No | No | No | No | No | Terminated (5.2.3) | Dropped (5.1.7) | Dropped (5.1.7) | No | No | No | No | No |
| Mozilla (MAS) (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 Browser | 2004-now | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 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 |
| 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 |
| Opera | 1996-Now | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Dropped 3.62 | Dropped 5.12 | Yes | Dropped 7.54u2 | Dropped 6.03) | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| MacWeb | 1994-1996 | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Terminated (2.0) | No | No | No | No |
| IBM Web Explorer | 1994 | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Terminated (1.1h) | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Cello | 1993-1994 | NA | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No |
| ViolaWWW | 1992 | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | X11 |
| OmniWeb | 1995-Now | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Dropped (4.0) | Dropped | Dropped | No | No | No | NEXTSTEP |
| WorldWideWeb (Nexus) |
1991 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | NEXTSTEP OPENSTEP |
[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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | Yes | No | No | 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 |
| Dillo | Partial | No | No | No | No | Partial |
| ELinks | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No |
| Epiphany | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Flock | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes |
| Galeon | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| iCab | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Internet Explorer † | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| 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 | No | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes |
| Mosaic | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Mozilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Netscape | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Netscape Browser | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes |
| Netscape Navigator | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| OmniWeb | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Opera | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes † | Yes † | Yes |
| Safari | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Shiira | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| WorldWideWeb | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| w3m | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
- ^ Internet Explorer is the only browser to support the Component Object Model (popularly known as ActiveX) natively. The embedding of ActiveX into Internet Explorer can add functionality to the browser, however this can also lead to infection with computer viruses, trojans and spyware.
- ^ Spell checking can be added by installing an add-on like ieSpell.
- ^ 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.
[edit] Accessibility features
Information about what common accessibility features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons).
| Browser | Tabbed browsing | Pop-up blocking | Incremental finding | Ad filtering | Page zooming † |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | Yes | N/A | ? | No | Yes |
| AOL Explorer | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Avant | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Camino | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Dillo | No | N/A | No | No | No |
| ELinks | Yes | No | Yes | N/A | N/A |
| Epiphany | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial † | No |
| Flock | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Galeon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| iCab | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Internet Explorer | Yes | Yes | No † | No | Yes |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | No | No | No | No | No |
| K-Meleon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial † | Partial |
| Konqueror | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Links | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Lynx | No | N/A | No | N/A | N/A |
| Maxthon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mosaic | No | N/A | No | No | No |
| Mozilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial † | No |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial † | No [1] |
| Netscape | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial † | No |
| Netscape Browser | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial † | No |
| Netscape Navigator | No | No | No | No | No |
| OmniWeb | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Opera | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes † | Yes |
| Safari | Yes † | Yes † | No | Yes | Yes |
| SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial † | No [2] |
| Shiira | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| WorldWideWeb | No | No | No | No | No |
| w3m | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Nozt |
- ^ Page zooming is different from text resizing, as it resizes not only characters, but also multimedia objects and web page layout. Not yet available in current Gecko (1.8, e.g. Mozilla Firefox 1.x/2.x: fixed by 'Web Developer' extension), but will be in Gecko 1.9 (2007, e.g. Mozilla Firefox 3)[3].
- ^ K-Meleon, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, and SeaMonkey support simple domain name-based blocking for images. More advanced regular expression-based Ad filtering for Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox can be added with external software such as the AdBlock extension. Selective CSS can also effectively hide ads.
- ^ Epiphany supports AdBlock as an official extension, in the epiphany-extensions package.
- ^ Opera 9 introduced a content blocker for webpages. [4]. Earlier releases support wildcard protocol/domain/path and filetype blocking using a filter.ini [5] file. More advanced Ad filtering for Opera can also be done with external software [6].
- ^ Tabbed browsing turned off by default in Safari.
- ^ Does not allow selective blocking of pop-ups—can only block all pop-ups, or none.
- ^ Several extensions are available through the Windows Marketplace [7], including "Inline Search for Internet Explorer"[8] (emulates Mozilla's find bar).
[edit] Accessibility features (cont.)
Information about what common accessibility features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons).
| Browser | HTML access key | Tabbing navigation | Spatial navigation | Caret navigation | Mouse gesture | Text-to-speech | Voice control |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | ? | ? | ? | 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 † | Yes † | No |
| Dillo | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| ELinks | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Epiphany | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Partial † | No | No |
| Flock | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Galeon | ? | Yes | ? | Disabled | Yes | No | No |
| iCab | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes † | No |
| Internet Explorer | Yes | Yes | No | No | No † | Partial | No |
| 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 | Yes † | Yes † | No |
| Links | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Lynx | ? | No | No | ? | No | No | No |
| Maxthon | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | No | No |
| Mosaic | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No |
| Mozilla | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No † | No | No |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes | No † | No † | No |
| Netscape | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No † | No | No |
| Netscape Browser | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Netscape Navigator | ? | 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 | No | No | No † | Yes † | No |
| SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Shiira | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| WorldWideWeb | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No |
| w3m | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
- ^ Mouse gesture support can be added by installing extensions like CocoaGestures (works with Cocoa applications)
- ^ 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 [9] or similar applications.
- ^ Doug Turner, the Minimo lead developer, has introduced spatial navigation to some special Firefox builds [10]. It may build as a default part of Firefox [11].
- ^ Mouse gesture support can be added by installing extensions like All-in-One Gestures (Firefox-only) [12] and Mouse Gestures [13].
- ^ Firefox works with a number of screen readers such as JAWS [14] and Microsoft SAPI 5 TTS [15] through extensions.
- ^ Caret-like navigation is available. [16]
[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 | Java | Nav LINKs † | XSLT | XHTML 1.0 † | XHTML 1.1 † | MathML | XForms | RSS | Atom | SVG | Web Forms 2.0 | VoiceXML/X+V | WML |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | Yes | No | No | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Partial | No | No | No |
| AOL Explorer | Partial | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No † | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? |
| Avant | Partial | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? |
| Camino | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | Partial | Partial | No | No | ? |
| Dillo | No | Partial † | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| ELinks | Partial | Yes | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Epiphany | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial † | Partial † | Partial † | No † | No | No |
| Flock | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | No | ? |
| Galeon | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? | No | No | ? |
| iCab | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Internet Explorer | Partial | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes | No | No | No † | No | Yes † | Yes † | No | No † | No | No |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | Partial | Yes | Yes | ? | Partial | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| K-Meleon | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | ? |
| Konqueror | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes † | Yes † | Partial | No | No | No |
| Links | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Lynx | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Maxthon | Partial | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? |
| Mosaic | No | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Mozilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Partial | No | No | ? |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | No † | No | No |
| Netscape | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Netscape Browser | Depends | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Depends | Depends | Depends | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Netscape Navigator | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| OmniWeb | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Opera | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | No | Yes | Yes | Yes (SVGT) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Safari | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Partial | No | No | No |
| Shiira | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| WorldWideWeb | No | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| w3m | ? | Yes | No | ? | No | Yes | ? | No | ? | No | No | ? | No | No | No |
- ^ 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.
- ^ Internet Explorer 7 only
- ^ Available with the MathPlayer plugin.
- ^ XForms is supported experimentally in nightly builds dated after January 28, 2005 [19]. Requires installation of an extension.
- ^ RSS and ATOM feed autodetection in Konqueror depends on the aKregator package which is installed with kdepim.
- ^ 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).
- ^ RSS and ATOM feed autodetection in Epiphany depends on the Newsfeed extension which is included with Epiphany-extensions.
- ^ Level of support for SVG depends on the version of the Gecko rendering engine that Epiphany was built with.
- ^ 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.
[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 |
| ELinks | Partial | Yes | 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 |
| 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 | No † | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Netscape | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Netscape Browser | Yes | Yes | Depends | Depends | No † | Depends | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Netscape Navigator | Yes | Partial | No | No | No | No | Yes | 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 |
| WorldWideWeb | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| w3m | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
- ^ 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.
- ^ SVG / XPath / (partial) DOM 3 is only available in the WebKit nightlies so far.
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 | IRC | Gopher | IDN | data: URL | BitTorrent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | No | ? |
| AOL Explorer | Partial † | No | Yes | No | Partial † | No | Disabled | No † | No | No |
| Avant | Partial | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Camino | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Dillo | Yes | No | Yes | No | Partial | No | No | No | No | ? |
| ELinks | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Epiphany | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Flock | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Galeon | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| iCab | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Internet Explorer | Partial † | No | Yes | No | Partial † | No | Disabled | Yes † | No | No |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | Partial † | No | Yes | No | Partial † | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| K-Meleon | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Konqueror | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes † | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Links | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Lynx | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? | No |
| Maxthon | Yes | No | Yes | No | Partial † | No | Disabled | No † | No | No |
| Mosaic | Partial † | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Mozilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes † | Yes | No |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No † | Yes | Yes † | Yes | No |
| Netscape | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Netscape Browser | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Depends | Depends | Depends | No |
| Netscape Navigator | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| OmniWeb | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Opera | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial † | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Safari | Yes | No | Partial | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes † | Yes | No |
| Shiira | Yes | No | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | Yes | ? | No |
| WorldWideWeb | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| w3m | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? | No |
- ^ 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.
- ^ IE fails to with some aspects 1.1, for instance, the RFC-mandated HTTP pipelining support.
- ^ Mosaic reached only HTTP 0.9 compliance, and does not support secure communications in any way.
- ^ IRC support can be added by installing ChatZilla.
- ^ Gopher is supported through proxy servers.
- ^ Internet Explorer 7 supports IDN, [20]. IE6 IDN support can be added by installing VeriSign i-Nav Plug-In.
- ^ IDN domains are displayed as punycode by default for security reasons
- ^ Only with the SSL dll version.
- ^ Konqueror has full Gopher support when the kgopher KIO plugin is installed.
- HTTP-Auth (Basic/Digest), WebDav and GZip info missing
[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 | GIF | PNG | MNG | TIFF † | SVG † | PDF † | 2D Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Partial | No | No |
| AOL Explorer | Partial † | Yes | Partial † | No | disable | No | No | No |
| Avant | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Camino | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Partial † | No | No |
| Dillo | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| ELinks | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Epiphany | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Partial † † | No | Yes † |
| Flock | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Partial † | No | No |
| Galeon | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| iCab | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| Internet Explorer | Partial † | Yes | Partial † | No | disable | No | No | No † |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| K-Meleon | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Konqueror | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No † | Yes † | No |
| Links | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Lynx | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Maxthon | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Mosaic | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Mozilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | Dropped † | No | No | No | No |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Partial † | No † | Yes |
| Netscape | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Netscape Browser | Yes | Yes | Depends | No | No | No | No | No |
| Netscape Navigator | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | No | No | No | No |
| OmniWeb | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Opera | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Partial † | No | Yes |
| Safari | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No † | Yes | Yes |
| SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Partial † | No | Yes |
| Shiira | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Partial | No | Partial |
| WorldWideWeb | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| w3m | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
- ^ Internet Explorer does not support progressive display of progressive JPEG.
- ^ 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 [21].
- ^ Support of MNG/JNG was dropped since June 6, 2003 [22] [23]. There are unofficial builds with MNG/JNG called Mngzilla [24].
- ^ 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 [25]. KSVG1 development has ended, but work on the next-generation kdom-based KSVG2 has been very active [26]. KSVG2 is slated to be moved into the core KDE [27] 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: [28].
- ^ Since version 8, Opera supports SVG Tiny. Opera 9 has partial support for SVG Basic.
- ^ KSVG2 has been ported into Safari's WebKit, meaning that eventually SVG will make its way into Safari [29].
- ^ 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) (8) |
| 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) |
| 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), 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) (69) |
| Flock | Chinese (Simplified) (zh), English (en), German (de), Hungarian (hu), Polish (pl), Russian (ru), Slovak (sk), Spanish (es) (8) |
| 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) |
| 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), Brazilian (br), 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), Hungarian (hu), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Latvian (lv), Lithuanian (lt), Norwegian (nb), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Romanian (ro), Russian (ru), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), Thai (th), Turkish (tr) (33) |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | English (en) |
| K-Meleon | English (en), German (de), Italian (it), Polish, (pl), Spanish (es) (5) |
| Konqueror | Afrikaans (af), Arabic (ar), 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) (39) |
| 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), Slovenian (sl), Swedish (sv), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk), Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) (zh) (18) |
| 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) |
| 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), Bulgarian (bg), Catalan (ca), Chinese (zh), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en), Finnish (fi), French (fr), Frisian (fy), Georgian (ka), German (de), Greek (el), Gujarati (gu), Hebrew (iw), Hungarian (hu), Irish (ga), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Kurdish (ku), Lithuanian (lt), Macedonian (mk), Mongolian (mn), Norwegian (no), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Punjabi (pa), Romanian (ro), Russian (ru), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), Turkish (tr), Welsh (cy) (41) |
| 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 | 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), Portuguese (br), Russian (ru), Slovenian (sl), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), Turkish (tr) (20) |
| OmniWeb | Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en), French (fr), German (de), Japanese (ja), Swedish (sv) (7) |
| Opera | Bulgarian (bg), Catalan (ca), Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) (zh), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), UK English (en-GB), US English (en-US), Finnish (fi), French (fr-FR, fr-CA), German (de), Greek (el), Hindi (hi), Hungarian (hu), Irish (ga), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Lithuanian (lt), Nynorsk Norwegian (no-nn), Bokmål Norwegian (no-bn), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Portuguese (pt), Punjabi (pa), Russian (ru), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), Turkish (tr) (25) |
| 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) |
| WorldWideWeb | English (en) |
| w3m | English (en), French (fr), German (de), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Spanish (es), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Swedish (sv) (9) |
- 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) | |
| Camino | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| iCab | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 † December 10, 2004 |
| Internet Explorer 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 November 17, 2004 |
7 February 27, 2004 |
8 November 7, 2003 |
overflow |
| Internet Explorer 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 October 30, 2006 |
4 October 19, 2006 |
0 | 15 April 27, 2006 |
| Konqueror | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 March 17, 2005 |
0 | 2 † July 14, 2006 |
| Mozilla Firefox | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 November 22, 2006 |
1 February 19, 2007 |
0 |
| Netscape Browser | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 June 6, 2006 |
3 December 9, 2005 |
2 † September 9, 2005 |
| OmniWeb | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 † January 15, 2007 |
| Opera | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 February 26, 2007 |
0 | 2 January 3, 2007 |
| Safari | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 November 30, 2006 |
3 November 17, 2005 |
7 July 5, 2006 |
| SeaMonkey | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 June 6, 2006 |
0 | 0 |
- ^ SecurityFocus does not currently contain a section for the latest version of iCab (3.0.3).
- ^ KDE Konqueror ReplaceChild Denial Of Service Vulnerability has been patched according to the KDE Bug Tracking System. SecurityFocus does not currently contain a section for the latest version of Konqueror (3.5.6).
- ^ SecurityFocus does not currently contain a section for the latest version of Netscape Browser (8.1.2).
- ^ SecurityFocus does not currently contain a section for the latest version of OmniWeb (5.5.4).
[edit] References
- ^ http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0
- ^ History and Growth of the Internet http://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm Accessed March 3 2007
- ^ History and Growth of the Internet http://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm Accessed March 3 2007
- ^ Unofficial builds up to 1.3.1 were distributed as WaMCom.
- ^ Article ID : 164539; Section Internet Explorer for Macintosh or Windows 3.1 ; http://support.microsoft.com/kb/164539 Accessed March 1, 2007
- ^ http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/download/archive47x.jsp
- ^ Usage share of web browsers
- Amaya release history
- AOL Explorer release notes
- Arlington Kiosk Browser release history
- Camino 1.0.3 release notes
- Epiphany News
- Firefox 2.0 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
[edit] See also
- List of web browsers
- Comparison of layout engines
- Comparison of layout engines (WHATWG)
- Browser timeline
