Comparison of web browsers
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Source: Median values from summary table.
Internet Explorer (38.9%)
Firefox (25.0%)
Google Chrome (20.9%)
Safari (8.0%)
Opera (2.7%)
Mobile browsers (6.7%)
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of web browsers. Please see the individual products' articles for further information.
Web browser history
Web browsers by year
This is a table of personal computer web browsers by year of release of major version. The increased growth of the Internet in the 1990s and 2000s means that current browsers with small market shares have more total users than the entire market early on. For example, 90% market share in 1997 would be roughly 60 million users, but by the start of 2007 9% market share would equate to over 90 million users.[1]
Historical web browsers
This table focuses on operating system (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/Vista/7 | 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 | No | No | Terminated (1.01a) | No | Terminated (1.01a) | Terminated (1.01a) | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| DocZilla | 2003-2005 | Terminated (1.0) | Terminated (1.0) | Terminated (1.0) | Terminated (1.0) | No | No | No | No | No | No | Terminated (1.0) | No | No | No |
| IBM WebExplorer | 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 | 1995-Current | Included (Win 2000 dropped as of IE7, Win XP dropped as of IE9) | Dropped (6.0 SP1) (included 5.0) | Dropped (6.0 SP1) (included 2.0) | Dropped (5.0) (included 3.0) | Dropped (5.0) | No | No | No | No | Dropped (3.0) | Dropped* (5.01 SP1) | No | Dropped* (5.01 SP1) | Windows Server 2008 included (7.0), Windows Server 2003 included (6.0) |
| IE Mac (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 |
| Konqueror | 1996-Current | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Lunascape | 2004-Current | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 |
| MacWeb | 1994-1996 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Terminated (2.0) | No | No | No | No |
| Mosaic | 1993-1997 | No | No | 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 - Vista and 7 unsupported) | 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 |
| Mozilla Firefox | 2004 - Now | Yes | Dropped (3.0) | Dropped (3.0) | Dropped (3.0) | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Netscape Navigator 9 | 2008 | Terminated (Windows 7 unsupported | 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 (Vista and 7 unsupported) | Terminated | Terminated | Terminated | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Netscape 7 Netscape 6 |
2000-2004 | Terminated (7.2 - Vista and 7 unsupported XP also unsupported in Netscape 6) |
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 - XP/Vista/7 unsupported) | Terminated (4.8) | Terminated (4.8) | Terminated | Dropped (4.08) | Terminated | No | Terminated (4.80) | Terminated (4.80) | Dropped (4.08) | Dropped (4.77) | Terminated | Dropped (4.77) | No |
| Netscape Navigator | 1994-1998 | No | 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-Current | Yes | Yes | Dropped (10.0)[18] | Yes | Dropped (3.62) | Dropped (5.12) | Yes | Dropped (7.54u2) | Dropped (6.03) | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes[note 1][note 2] | Yes[note 3] |
| UdiWWW | 1995-1996 | No | No | Terminated (1.2.000) | Terminated (1.2.000) | Terminated (1.2.000) | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| ViolaWWW | 1992 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | X11 |
| WorldWideWeb | 1991 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | NeXTSTEP OpenStep |
| Browser | Years | MS 2000/XP/Vista/7 | 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 |
- ^ Opera dropped support for Solaris in 10.10.
- ^ Ødegaard, Ruari. "The Setting Sun". Opera Desktop Team. Opera Software. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
- ^ Cell phones, Nintendo DS / Wii, Symbian, Windows Mobile, iOS (Opera Mini - available from App Store); BeOS (Dropped 3.62), QNX (Dropped 6.01)
General information
Basic general information about the browsers: creator/company, license/price etc.
- ^ Only Chromium, which Google Chrome is based on, is open source; the additional features Google adds to Chrome, such as H.264 and ACC decoding, the built-in PDF viewer, an auto-updater system among other things are closed-source.
- ^ a b c d 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.
Release history
A brief overview of the release history.
- ^ 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 is 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.
Operating system support
Browsers are compiled to run on certain operating systems, without emulation. For a given browser/OS combination, browser support status can be one of seven possibilities:
- No means that it does not exist or was never released.
- Partial means that the browser works, but lacks important functionality or is very unstable compared to versions for other OSs, that is to say it has roughly alpha or pre-alpha quality, and it is still being developed.
- Beta means that a version of the browser is fully functional and has been released, but is still in development, e.g., for stability.
- Yes means that the browser has been officially released in a fully functional, stable version.
- Dropped means 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 means that the browser comes pre-packaged as part of or has been integrated into the operating system.
This 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 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 7 with Internet Explorer 8.
| Browser | Windows | Mac OS X | Linux | BSD | Other Unix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| AOL Explorer | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Arora | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Avant | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Camino | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Chromium | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Dillo | Partial | Yes | Yes[note 1] | 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 | Yes[note 2] | Yes | No | No |
| iCab | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Internet Explorer | Included | Dropped | No | No | Dropped (5.0)[note 3] |
| K-Meleon | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Konqueror | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Links | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Lunascape | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Lynx | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Maxthon | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Midori | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | Yes[note 4] | 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 | Other Unix |
- ^ Dillo is included in some Linux distributions, i.e. Damn Small Linux and Feather Linux.
- ^ Google Chrome is not available for PowerPC.
- ^ Internet Explorer for UNIX was available for Solaris and HP-UX.
- ^ Most Linux distributions which include a graphical user interface include a version of Firefox or a rebranded version of Firefox such as GNU IceCat.
Browser features
Information about what common browser features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons).
| Browser | Bookmark management | Download management | Password managing[note 1] | Form managing | Spell checking | Search engine toolbar | Per-site security configuration | Privacy mode | Auto-updater |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | ? | No | No |
| AOL Explorer | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | ? |
| Arora | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| Avant | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No [note 2] | Yes | ? | No | ? |
| Camino | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | Yes |
| Dillo | Partial | No | No | No | No | Partial | ? | No | No |
| DocZilla | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | No | No | Partial | No | No |
| ELinks | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Epiphany | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | No | Yes |
| Flock | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial [note 3] | No | Yes |
| Galeon | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes |
| Google Chrome | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 4] | Yes |
| iCab | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | ? |
| Internet Explorer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 2] | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 5] | Yes [note 6] |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | ? |
| K-Meleon | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | ? |
| Konqueror | Yes | Yes [note 7] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 8] | No | Partial [note 9] |
| Links | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | No | ? |
| Lunascape | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial[59] | Yes | Partial[59] | Partial[59] | Yes[60] |
| Lynx | Yes | No | No | No | No [note 10] | No | ? | No | ? |
| Maxthon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Beta | Yes |
| Midori | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Mosaic | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | No |
| Mozilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 11] | Yes |
| Netscape | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No |
| Netscape Browser | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | No | Yes |
| Netscape Navigator | Yes | No | 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 | No | No |
| OmniWeb | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial [note 12] | No | Yes |
| Opera | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 13] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Safari | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial [note 3] | ? | Yes |
| Shiira | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| Sleipnir | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Notification only |
| WorldWideWeb | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | ? | No | No |
| w3m | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | No |
| Browser | Bookmark management | Download management | Password managing [note 1] | Form managing | Spell checking | Search engine toolbar | Per-site security configuration | Privacy mode | Auto-updater |
- ^ a b In many integrated password saving tools there are often leaks that make them unsafe.[62]
- ^ a b Spell checking can be added by installing an add-on like ieSpell.
- ^ a b 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, an add-on is needed ~ for example, NoScript.
- ^ Starting with version 4, Google Chrome can disable Cookies, Images, JavaScript, Plugins, Popups, and Geolocation individually.
- ^ Internet Explorer 8 supports InPrivate Browsing.
- ^ There is no online update facility built into IE, but it gets updated by Windows Update when enabled.
- ^ For the download manager kdenetwork needs to be installed.
- ^ Konqueror can handle per-site settings for cookies, pop-ups, JavaScript, Java and NPAPI modules (eg. Flash).
- ^ Updates happen with the rest of KDE. This happens through the system package manager if used by the system. On Windows, this happens through KDE's updater.
- ^ Lynx is able to edit text with an external editor, which can provide spell checking.
- ^ Firefox 3.5 adds the Privacy mode. Older versions of Firefox can use the Stealther extension.
- ^ 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.[61]
- ^ Opera can auto-complete forms with your personal information and website usernames. Also there is extension AutoComplete which can complete forms with form history.
Accessibility features
Information about what common accessibility features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons). Browsers that do not support pop-ups have no need for pop-up blocking abilities, so that field is marked as N/A.
| Browser | Tabbed browsing | Pop-up blocking [note 1] | Incremental finding | Ad filtering | Page zooming [note 2] | Full-text search of history |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | Yes | — | No | No | Yes | No |
| AOL Explorer | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
| Arora | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Avant | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Camino | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Dillo | Yes | — | No | No | No | No |
| DocZilla | Yes | Partial | Yes | No | Partial | Partial |
| ELinks | Yes | — | Yes | — | — | No |
| Epiphany | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 3] | Yes | Yes |
| Flock | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Galeon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Google Chrome | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 4] | Yes | Yes |
| iCab | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Internet Explorer | Yes [note 5] | Yes [note 6] | Yes [note 7][note 8] | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 9] [63] |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| K-Meleon | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 10] | Partial | No |
| Konqueror | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Links | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Lunascape | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial |
| Lynx | No | — | No | — | — | No |
| Maxthon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Midori | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Mosaic | No | — | No | No | No | No |
| Mozilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 10] | Yes | No |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 10] | Yes | No [64] |
| Netscape | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 10] | No | No |
| Netscape Browser | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 10] | No | No |
| Netscape Navigator | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Netscape Navigator 9 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 10] | No | No |
| NetSurf | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| OmniWeb | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Opera | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 11] | Yes | Yes |
| Safari | Yes | Yes [note 12] | Yes | No [note 13] | Yes [note 14] | Yes (only Mac) [note 15] |
| SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 10] | Yes [65] | No |
| Shiira | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
| Sleipnir | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| WorldWideWeb | No | — | No | No | No | No |
| w3m | Yes | — | Yes | No | No | No |
| Browser | Tabbed browsing | Pop-up blocking [note 1] | Incremental finding | Ad filtering | Page zooming [note 2] | Full-text search of history |
- ^ a b A more complete list of Pop-Up blockers and addons / programs are in the following article List of pop-up blocking software.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Ad filter support can be added by installing an extension such as AdSweep, AdThwart or Adblock.
- ^ IE6 had no tabbed browsing support.
- ^ IE6 included pop-up blocking with Windows XP Service Pack 2 [1]
- ^ For IE7, several extensions are available through the Windows Marketplace [2][dead link], including "Inline Search for Internet Explorer"[3][dead link]. This function is included in IE8 [4].
- ^ IE8 supports incremental find.
- ^ Full-text history search is available through a Windows Search iFilter[63]
- ^ a b c d e f g Most Gecko browsers has options to block chosen images and cookies. Extended Ad filter support can be added by installing an extension such as Adblock Plus.
- ^ Opera 9 introduced a content blocker for webpages. [5]. Earlier releases support wildcard protocol/domain/path and filetype blocking using a filter.ini [6] file. More advanced Ad filtering for Opera can also be done with external software [7].
- ^ Does not allow selective blocking of pop-ups. Safari can only block all pop-ups, or none.
- ^ Ad filter support can be added by installing extensions [8]
- ^ Page zooming supported in the iPhone version of Safari. Screen zooming is built in to Mac OS X.
- ^ Full-text history search is available through Spotlight, a feature of the Mac OS X operating system.
Accessibility features (continued)
Information about what common accessibility features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons).
| Browser | Access keys | Tabbing navigation | Spatial navigation | Caret navigation | Mouse gesture | Text-to-speech | Voice control |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | No |
| AOL Explorer | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Arora | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Avant | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| Camino | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No [note 1] | No [note 2] | No |
| Dillo | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| DocZilla | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| ELinks | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 3] | Yes | No | No | No |
| Epiphany | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No [note 4] | No | No |
| Flock | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No [note 5] | No | No |
| Galeon | ? | Yes | ? | Disabled | Yes | No | No |
| Google Chrome | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No [note 6] | ? | ? |
| iCab | Yes | No | No | No | No | No [note 2] | No |
| Internet Explorer | Yes | Yes | No | Yes[note 7] | No [note 8] | Partial[note 9] | Yes[note 10] |
| 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 [note 11] | Depends [note 12] | No |
| Links | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Lunascape | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Lynx | ? | No | No | ? | No | No | No |
| Maxthon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Midori | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
| Mosaic | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Mozilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 5] | No[note 13] | Yes |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | No [note 14] | Yes | No [note 5] | No[note 13] | 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 [note 1] | Yes | Yes |
| Opera | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 15] | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Safari | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (only Mac) [note 16] | Yes (only Mac) [note 1] | Yes (only Mac) [note 2] | Yes (only Mac) [note 2] |
| 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 | No |
| w3m | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Browser | Access keys | Tabbing navigation | Spatial navigation | Caret navigation | Mouse gesture | Text-to-speech | Voice control |
- ^ a b c On Mac systems, gestures are available systemwide via multitouch sensing on trackpads and mice.
- ^ a b c d On Mac OS X, text-to speech and speech recognition are available systemwide and is available from menu in native Cocoa browsers.
- ^ ELinks 0.12 supports spatial navigation.
- ^ Epiphany supports mouse gestures as an official extension, in the epiphany-extensions package.
- ^ a b c Mouse gesture support can be added by installing extensions like All-in-One Gestures (Firefox-only) [9] and Mouse Gestures [10].
- ^ Google Chrome can be given mouse gestures using Chrome Gestures or a similar extension.
- ^ Internet Explorer 8 supports caret browsing.
- ^ Mouse gesture support can be added by installing Easy Go Back add-on [11] or similar applications.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Mouse gesture support is available system-wide in KDE
- ^ Text-to speech support depends on the kttsd application in the kdeaccessibility package
- ^ a b Firefox works with a number of screen readers such as JAWS [12][dead link] and Microsoft SAPI 5 TTS [13][dead link] through extensions.
- ^ Doug Turner, the Minimo lead developer, has introduced spatial navigation to some special Firefox builds [14]. It may build as a default part of Firefox [15].
- ^ opera : a sort of caret navigation can be enabled by a button or a shortcut [16]
- ^ On Mac OS X systems, caret navigation (called "Full Keyboard Access") can be enabled systemwide.
Acid Scores
The Acid tests are online test suites to determine aspects of standards compliance, to expose web page rendering flaws, and to rate the performance of browsers. Upon each test's release, they are designed so that no existing browser can pass without further development. In order for a browser to pass any Acid test, the latest public release of the browser (not an alpha, beta, release candidate, or other version under development or testing procedures) must meet the requirements shown below. In addition, the browser should be tested upon completion of installation, with no add-ons installed (some browsers make this easy by providing a "safe mode" option) and all the factory settings (no options have been changed from their defaults). Some browser developers now believe that parts of the Acid3 test created in 2008 have become irrelevant because browser fonts have standardized on WOFF rather than SVG fonts.[66]
Acid1:
- Final rendering looks exactly like the rendering provided by the Acid tests website.
- Text can be highlighted and radio buttons can be selected.
Acid2:
- Final rendering looks exactly like the rendering provided by the Acid tests website.
- Smiley's nose turns blue when hovered over.
Acid3:
- Final score of 100/100.
- No error messages on final rendering.
- Render-in-progress loads smoothly (no pausing).
- Final rendering looks exactly like the rendering provided by the Acid tests website.
| Browser | Acid1 | Acid2 | Acid3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | No | No | No |
| AOL Explorer | No | No | No |
| Arora | Yes | Yes | 100/100 |
| Avant | No | No | No |
| Camino | Yes | No | 93/100 |
| Dillo | ? | No | ? |
| DocZilla | ? | No | ? |
| ELinks | No | No | ? |
| Epiphany | Yes | Yes | 100/100 |
| Flock | Yes | Yes | 72/100 |
| Galeon | ? | Yes | 72/100 |
| Google Chrome | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| iCab | ? | Yes | 100/100 |
| Internet Explorer | Yes | Yes | 95/100 |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | ? | No | No |
| K-Meleon | Yes | No | 53/100 |
| Konqueror | Yes | Yes | 91/100 (100/100)[note 1] |
| Links | ? | No | No |
| Lunascape | ? | Yes | 100/100[67] |
| Lynx | ? | No | No |
| Maxthon | Yes | Yes | (only in version 3) |
| Mosaic | ? | No | No |
| Mozilla | Yes | No | ? |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | 97/100 |
| Netscape | ? | No | ? |
| Netscape Browser | Yes | No | ? |
| Netscape Navigator | ? | No | ? |
| Netscape Navigator 9 | Yes | No | 52/100 |
| NetSurf | ? | No | ? |
| OmniWeb | ? | Yes | No |
| Opera | Yes | Yes | 100/100 |
| Safari | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | 93/100 |
| Shiira | ? | Yes | 74/100 |
| Sleipnir | ? | ? | ? |
| WorldWideWeb | No | No | No |
| w3m | No | No | No |
| Browser | Acid1 | Acid2 | Acid3 |
Browsers under development
| Browser | Acid1 | Acid2 | Acid3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midori 0.3.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 2] |
| Browser | Acid1 | Acid2 | Acid3 |
Tests under development
The specifications for HTML5 are still under development, but many current browsers already support many of the new features in the draft specifications. An HTML5 test suite is also under development that, while it does not test all of the new features nor the functionality of those it does detect, rates browsers' support. New tests are expected to be added to the suite as time goes by.[68]
| Browser | HTML5 Test Points |
|---|---|
| Apple Safari | 228/400 |
| Google Chrome | 288/400 |
| Internet Explorer | 130/400 |
| Mozilla Firefox | 255/400 |
| Opera | 244/400 |
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 [note 1] | Frames | Nav LINKs [note 2] | XSLT | XHTML 1.0 [note 3] | XHTML 1.1 [note 3] | MathML | XForms | Web Forms 2.0 | VoiceXML / X+V | SMIL | VML | CSS Presentation / projection mode[note 4] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | Yes | No | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? | No | ? |
| AOL Explorer | Partial | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No [note 5] | No | No | No | Yes[70] | Yes | ? |
| Avant | Partial | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes[70] | Yes | ? |
| Arora | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 6] | No | ? | No | ? |
| Camino | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Dillo | Partial | Partial [note 7] | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | ? |
| DocZilla | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | No | No | ? |
| ELinks | Partial | Yes | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | ? |
| Epiphany | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 6] | No | ? | No | ? |
| Flock | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No [note 8] |
| Galeon | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? | No | ? |
| Google Chrome | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| iCab | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | ? |
| Internet Explorer | Partial [note 9] | Yes | No [note 10] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 5] | No [note 11] | No [note 12] | No | Yes[70] | Yes | ? |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | Partial | Yes | ? | Partial | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
| K-Meleon | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Konqueror | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | No | ? |
| Links | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | ? |
| Lunascape | Yes [73] | Yes | Depends [note 10] | Yes | Yes [73] | Yes [73] | Yes [73] | Yes [73] | No | No | Yes [73][70] | Yes [73] | ? |
| Lynx | No | Partial | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Maxthon | Partial | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes[70] | Yes | ? |
| Midori | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | No | No[note 8] |
| Mosaic | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Mozilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | No [note 10] | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 13] | Yes | Yes [note 14] | No [note 6] | No | Yes | No | No [note 8] |
| Netscape | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Netscape Browser | Depends [74] | Yes | ? | Yes | Depends [74] | Depends [74] | Depends [74] | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Netscape Navigator | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Netscape Navigator 9 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? |
| NetSurf | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | ? |
| OmniWeb | Yes | Yes | ? | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | No | ? |
| Opera | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes[note 15] |
| Safari | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No[note 8] |
| SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Shiira | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | No | ? |
| Sleipnir | Partial | Yes | No [note 10] | Yes | No | No | No [note 5] | No | No [note 12] | No | Yes[70] | Yes | ? |
| WorldWideWeb | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| w3m | ? | Yes | ? | No | Yes | ? | No | ? | No | No | ? | No | ? |
| Browser | CSS2.1 [note 1] | Frames | Nav LINKs [note 2] | XSLT | XHTML 1.0 [note 3] | XHTML 1.1 [note 3] | MathML | XForms | Web Forms 2.0 | VoiceXML / X+V | SMIL | VML | CSS Presentation / projection mode[note 4] |
- ^ a b 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).
- ^ a b LINK as a navigational aid, as distinct from non-navigational uses of LINK.
- ^ a b c d 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).
- ^ a b Presentation mode is the ability to read styles targeted to the CSS projection media type.
- ^ a b c Available with the MathPlayer plugin.
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ Dillo displays frames as links that the user can click on.
- ^ a b c d S5 is a CSS/JavaScript alternative for browsers that do not support a presentation mode.
- ^ Microsoft claims Internet Explorer 8 has full CSS2.1 support,[71] however independent testing revealed several bugs.[72]
- ^ a b c d Not in standard install, but provided by extension.[17][18]
- ^ Available with the FormsPlayer plugin and several other plugins.
- ^ a b Web Forms 2.0 can be emulated in IE using DHTML behaviours, available from SourceForge.
- ^ XHTML1.1 includes Ruby markup (see [19]) which is not supported. There exists add-on for adding RUBY support. [20]
- ^ XForms is supported experimentally in nightly builds dated after 28 January 2005 [21]. Requires installation of an extension.
- ^ Opera switches to presentation mode on full screen. [22]
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 | WBMP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| AOL Explorer | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| Avant | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| Camino | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| Dillo | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| DocZilla | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| ELinks | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Epiphany | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| Flock | Partial [note 1] | No | No | Partial [note 1] | No [note 2] | ? |
| Galeon | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| Google Chrome | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| iCab | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| Internet Explorer | ? | ? | ? | No [note 3] | No [note 3] | ? |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| Internet Explorer Mobile | ? | ? | ? | Yes[note 3] | Yes | Yes |
| K-Meleon | Partial [note 1] | No | No | Partial [note 1] | No | ? |
| Konqueror | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? |
| Links | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| Lynx | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| Maxthon | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| Microsoft Mobile Explorer | Yes [note 4] | ? | Yes[note 4] | Yes[note 4] | Yes[note 4] | Yes |
| Mosaic | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| Mozilla | Partial [note 1] | No | No | Partial [note 1] | No [note 2] | ? |
| Mozilla Firefox | Partial [note 1] | No | No | Partial [note 1] | No [note 2] | ? |
| 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 | Yes |
| Safari | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| SeaMonkey | Partial [note 1] | No | No | Partial [note 1] | No [note 2] | ? |
| Shiira | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| Sleipnir | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| WorldWideWeb | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| w3m | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| Browser | C-HTML | HDML | I-mode | XHTML Mobile Profile | WML | WBMP |
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j 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.
- ^ a b c d Gecko-based browsers do not 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.
- ^ a b c Internet Explorer Mobile 6 supports XHTML Mobile Profile.
- ^ a b c d Microsoft Mobile Explorer was discontinued in 2002.[75]
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 a plugin.
| Browser | ActiveX [note 1] | NPAPI [note 1] | Java | Gears | RSS | Atom | other web feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | No | ? | ? | No | No | No | ? |
| AOL Explorer | Yes | No | ? | No | Yes [note 2] | Yes [note 2] | ? |
| Avant | Yes | No | ? | ? | Yes [note 2] | Yes [note 2] | ? |
| Camino | No | Yes | ? | ? | Partial | Partial | ? |
| Dillo | No | ? | ? | No | No | No | ? |
| DocZilla | No | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | ? |
| ELinks | No | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? |
| Epiphany | No | ? | ? | ? | No [note 3] | No [note 3] | ? |
| Flock | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Galeon | No | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | ? |
| Google Chrome | No | Yes | No | Yes[note 4] | No | No | ? |
| iCab | No | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? |
| Internet Explorer | Yes | No [note 5] | No | Yes | Yes [note 2] | Yes [note 2] | Yes [note 6] |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | No | Yes | ? | No | No | No | No |
| K-Meleon | No | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Konqueror | No | Yes | No | No | Yes [note 7] | Yes [note 7] | ? |
| 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 | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Safari | No | Yes | Yes[note 8] | Partial[note 9] | Yes | Yes | ? |
| SeaMonkey | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Shiira | No | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Sleipnir | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes [note 2] | Yes [note 2] | ? |
| WorldWideWeb | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| w3m | No | No | ? | No | No | No | ? |
| Browser | ActiveX [note 1] | NPAPI [note 1] | Java | Gears | RSS | Atom | other web feed |
- ^ a b c d 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.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Internet Explorer 7 and later
- ^ a b RSS and ATOM feed autodetection in Epiphany depends on the Newsfeed extension which is included with Epiphany-extensions.
- ^ Except on linux
- ^ 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.[76][77][78]
- ^ Internet Explorer 8 supports syndicated content in
hAtom/hSlicemicroformat by the name of a feature known as Web Slices. - ^ a b RSS and ATOM feed autodetection in Konqueror depends on the aKregator package which is installed with kdepim.
- ^ Safari has Java only on Mac OS X. Safari for Windows needs a plugin.
- ^ Safari has Gears only on Mac OS X 10.4+. Windows is not supported
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 [note 1] | No [note 1] | No [note 1] | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| AOL Explorer | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Avant | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Camino | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 2] | 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 [note 2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Flock | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Galeon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Google Chrome | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| iCab | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Internet Explorer | Yes | Yes | Partial | No [note 3] | 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 [note 2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Konqueror | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Links | No [note 4] | 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 |
| Midori | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial [note 5] | Yes [note 5] | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mosaic | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Mozilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial [note 2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Netscape | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Netscape Browser | Yes | Yes | Depends [74] | Depends [74] | No [note 2] | Depends [74] | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Netscape Navigator | Yes | Partial | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| Netscape Navigator 9 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 2] | 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 [note 5] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Shiira | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Sleipnir | Yes | Yes | Partial | No [note 3] | 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 |
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k 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.
- ^ a b Internet Explorer 5 and above has its own event registration model and its own style sheets model, but these are incompatible with DOM 2.
- ^ Support for Javascript has been removed in version 2.1pre29 (change log)
- ^ a b c SVG / XPath / (partial) DOM 3 is only available in the WebKit nightlies so far.
See what parts of DOM your browser supports.
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 [note 1] | FTP [note 2] | NNTP (Usenet) [note 3] | SSL | EV | IRC | Gopher | IDN | data:URI | BitTorrent | IPv6 | Proxy possibilities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | No | ? | ? |
| AOL Explorer | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes [note 4] | Yes | No | No [note 5] | No [note 6] | No | No | Yes | ? |
| Avant | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes[note 4] | Yes | No | No [note 5] | No [note 6] | No | No | Yes | ? |
| Camino | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| Dillo | Yes | No | Yes | No | No [note 7] | 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 [note 8] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| Galeon | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
| Google Chrome | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes |
| iCab | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? |
| Internet Explorer | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes [note 4] | Yes | No | No [note 5] | Yes [note 6] | Partial [note 9] | No | Yes | Yes |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | 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 | No [note 10] | 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 | Yes [note 4] | Yes | No | No [note 5] | Yes [note 6] | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Mosaic | Partial [note 11] | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? |
| Mozilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 12] | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | No | Yes | No [note 13] | Yes | Yes | No [note 8] | Yes [note 14] | Yes [note 12] | Yes | Partial [note 15] | Yes | Yes |
| Netscape | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No [note 8] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? |
| Netscape Browser | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Depends [74] | Depends [74] | Depends [74] | No | ? | ? |
| Netscape Navigator | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? |
| Netscape Navigator 9 | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No [note 8] | Yes | Yes [note 12] | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| NetSurf | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| OmniWeb | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes[80] | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| Opera | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 16] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Safari | Yes | No | Partial | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 12] | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Shiira | Yes | No | ? | ? | Yes | ? | No | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes | ? |
| Sleipnir | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes [note 4] | Yes | No | No [note 5] | Yes [note 6] | 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 | Yes | ? |
| Browser | HTTP | E-mail [note 1] | FTP [note 2] | NNTP (Usenet) [note 3] | SSL | EV | IRC | Gopher | IDN | data:URI | BitTorrent | IPv6 | Proxy possibilities |
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b c d e Support for 256-bit ciphers (AES for example) for SSL/TLS is only available in Windows Vista and above[81][82]
- ^ a b c d e Internet Explorer 7 has no support of gopher; gopher support is disabled in IE6
- ^ a b c d e Internet Explorer 7 and later support IDN, [25]. IE6 IDN support can be added by installing VeriSign i-Nav Plug-In.
- ^ Dillo has experimental SSL integration that is by standard turned off.[26] There is no certificate caching and NO AUTHENTICATION performed.
- ^ a b c d IRC support can be added by installing ChatZilla.
- ^ 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.[79] - ^ Konqueror has full Gopher support when the kgopher KIO plugin is installed.
- ^ Mosaic reached only HTTP 0.9 compliance, and does not support secure communications in any way.
- ^ a b c d For security reasons, IDN domains are displayed as punycode if they contain certain characters or if the top level domain has not been whitelisted [27].
- ^ NNTP support can be added by installing the add-on infoRSS.
- ^ Firefox support for the Gopher protocol will be dropped in Firefox 4 (Gecko 1.9.3) per bug 388195.
- ^ Using third party extension FireTorrent [28]
- ^ Includes a proxy capability for gopher support.
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 [note 1] | SVG [note 2] | PDF [note 3] | 2D Canvas | XBM | BMP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Partial | No | No | ? | ? |
| AOL Explorer | Partial [note 4] | No | Yes | Partial [note 5] | No | No | disable | No | No | No [note 6] | No [note 7] | ? |
| Avant | Partial [note 4] | No | Yes | Partial [note 5] | No | No | disable | No | No | No [note 6] | No [note 7] | ? |
| Camino | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Partial [note 8] | 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 | No | ? |
| Epiphany | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Partial [note 8] [note 9] | No [note 10] | Yes [note 9] | Yes | ? |
| Flock | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Partial [note 8] | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Galeon | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? |
| Google Chrome | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| iCab | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | ? | ? |
| Internet Explorer | Partial [note 4] | No | Yes | Partial [note 5] | No | No | disable | No | No | No [note 6] | Dropped [note 7] | Yes |
| 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 [note 11] | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Partial [note 12] | Yes [note 13] | No | ? | Yes |
| Links | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | ? |
| Lynx | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Maxthon | Partial [note 4] | No | Yes | Partial [note 5] | No | No | disable | No | No | No [note 6] | No [note 7] | Yes |
| Midori | Yes | Yes [note 14] | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Partial [note 15] | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Mosaic | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? |
| Mozilla | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Dropped [note 16] | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? |
| Mozilla Firefox | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 17] | No | No | Partial [note 8] | No [note 10] | Yes | Dropped [note 18] | Yes |
| Netscape | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Dropped [note 19] | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? |
| Netscape Browser | Yes | No | Yes | Depends [74] | 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 [note 20] | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Safari | Yes | Yes [note 14] | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Partial [note 15] | Yes (Mac only) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SeaMonkey | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 17] | No | No | Partial [note 8] | No [note 10] | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Shiira | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Partial | No | Partial | Yes | ? |
| Sleipnir | Partial [note 4] | No | Yes | Partial [note 5] | No | No | disable | No | No | No [note 6] | No [note 7] | ? |
| 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 [note 1] | SVG [note 2] | PDF [note 3] | 2D Canvas | XBM | BMP |
- ^ a b Most browsers support TIFF by using a plugin installed by the user.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b c d e Internet Explorer does not support progressive display of progressive JPEG[citation needed].
- ^ a b c d e Internet Explorer supports PNG images but is unable to correctly display images with gamma correction or color correction[citation needed]. Versions of Internet Explorer prior to version 7 are unable to correctly display images with alpha channel (for transparency) without additional coding [29].
- ^ a b c d e Internet Explorer can be made to emulate canvas using the excanvas script.
- ^ a b c d e Internet Explorer support for XBM files was removed in Version 6.
- ^ a b c d e Firefox and SeaMonkey partially support SVG 1.1 Full. Modules that are implemented or not implemented and details of their implementation: [30].
- ^ a b Support for these features depends on the version of the Gecko rendering engine that Epiphany was built with.
- ^ a b c 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. This feature is not included in Firefox 3.5, however it is possible with the new Cairo backend.
- ^ Konqueror supports JPEG2000 if KDE's viewer is compiled with Jasper library.
- ^ KDE has developed its own SVG plugin for Konqueror, known as KSVG [31]. KSVG1 development has ended, but work on the next-generation KDOM-based KSVG2 has been very active [32]. KSVG2 is slated to be moved into the core KDE [33] meaning at some point KSVG2 should become part of Konqueror.
- ^ Inline PDF viewing in Konqueror requires KPDF which is included in kdegraphics.
- ^ a b Safari supports JPEG2000 through QuickTime plugin, which is an optional software bundle for Safari installation on Windows, and an integrated component in Mac OS.
- ^ a b Safari 3 is able to render SVG documents, but not fully [34].
- ^ Support of MNG/JNG was dropped since 6 June 2003 [35] [36]. There are unofficial obsolete builds with MNG/JNG called Mngzilla [37].
- ^ a b Mozilla applications rebranded by the Debian project, such as GNU IceCat or Iceape do not support APNG.
- ^ In Gecko 1.9.2 (Firefox 3.6) XBM support was dropped.
- ^ Netscape 6.0, 6.01 and 7.0 included native support for MNG until the code was removed in 2003 due to code size and little actual usage.
- ^ Opera supports SVG 1.1 Basic. [38]
Internationalization
Most browsers are available in more than one language.
| Browser | Languages | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Amaya[83][84] | 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 (ja), Hungarian (hu), Dutch (du), Ukrainian (uk) | 19 |
| AOL Explorer | English (en), French (fr), German (de) | 3 |
| Avant | English (en), Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Chinese Traditional, Danish, Dutch, French (fr), Frisian, German (de), Greek, Hebrew (he), Hungarian, Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Korean, Persian, Polish (pl), Portuguese (Brazilian) (pt-BR), Russian (ru), Spanish (es), Thai, Turkish, UK English, Ukrainian (uk) | 27 |
| Camino[85] | Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) (zh), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en), French (fr), German (de), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Lithuanian (lt), Norwegian (Bokmål) (no), Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn), Portuguese (pt), Slovak (sk), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv) | 17 |
| Dillo[86] | English (en) , Japanese (ja), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) | 4 |
| DocZilla | English (en) | 1 |
| ELinks[87] | 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[88] | 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) (no), Norwegian (Nynorsk) (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[89] | 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 (Bokmål) (no), Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn), 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 (ar), Portuguese (Brazilian) (pt-BR), Bengali (bn), Bulgarian (bg), Catalan (ca), Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) (zh), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (UK/US), Estonian (et), Filipino, Finnish (fi), French(fr), German (de), Greek (el), Gujarati, Hebrew (he), Hindi (hi), Hungarian (hu), Indonesian (id), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Kanada, Korean (ko), Latvian (lv), Lithuanian (lt), Malayalam (ml), Marathi (mr), Norwegian (no), Oriya (or), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Romanian (ro), Russian (ru), Serbian (sr), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Spanish (es), Spanish for Latin America (es-LA), Swedish (sv), Tamil (ta), Telugu (te), Thai (th), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi)[90] | 50 |
| iCab[91] | German (de), English (en), Japanese (ja), Danish (da), French (fr), Spanish (es), Russian (ru), Norwegian (no), Chinese (Simplified) (zh) | 9 |
| Internet Explorer[92][93] | 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 (no), 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 | German (de) English (en) Spanish (es) French (fr) Italian (it) Japanese (ja) Swedish (sv) | 7 |
| K-Meleon[94] | 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), Dutch (nl), Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn), Norwegian (Bokmål) (no), 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 (hsb) | 32 |
| Lunascape | Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) (zh), English (en), French (fr), German (de), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Portuguese (pt), Russian (ru), Spanish (es) | 11 |
| 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-BR), 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, Galician (gl), German (de), Greek (el), Hebrew (he), Hungarian (hu), Italian (Italy, Rome and Milan) (it), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Lithuanian (lt), Malay (ms), Norwegian (no), Piedmontese, Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Portuguese (Brazilian) (pt), Romanian (ro), 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 (he), 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[95] | Afrikaans (af), Akan (ak), Albanian (sq), Arabic (ar), Armenian (hy), Assamese (as), Asturian (ast), Basque (eu), Belarusian (be), Bengali (India and Bangladesh)(bn), Bosnian (bs), Breton (br), Bulgarian (bg), Catalan (ca), Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) (zh), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (Britain, South Africa, and US) (en), Esperanto (eo), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), French (fr), Frisian (fy), Friulian (fur) 1, Gaelic (gd), Galician (gl), Georgian (ka), German (de), Greek (el), Gujarati (gu), Hebrew (he), Hindi(hi), Hungarian (hu), Icelandic (is), Indonesian (id), Irish (ga), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Kannada (kn), Kazakh (kk), Korean (ko), Kurdish (ku), Latvian (lv), Lithuanian (lt), Luganda (lg), Macedonian (mk), Maithili (mai), Malayalam (ml), Marathi (mr), Northern Sotho (nso), Mongolian (mn) 2, Norwegian (Bokmål) (no), Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn), Occitan (oc), Oriya (or), Persian (fa), Polish (pl), Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal) (pt), Punjabi (pa), Romanian (ro), Romansh (rm), Russian (ru), Serbian (sr), Sinhala (si), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Songhai (son), Spanish (Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Spain) (es), Swedish (sv), Tamil (ta), Tamil (Sri Lanka) (ta), Tatar (tt) 1, Telugu (te), Thai (th), Turkish (tr),Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Welsh (cy), Zulu (zu) | 89 |
| Netscape[96] | Chinese (zh), English (en), French (fr), German (de), Japanese (ja), Portuguese (pt), Spanish (es) | 7 |
| Netscape Browser | English (en), English (Canadian) (en) | 2 |
| Netscape Navigator[97] | Portuguese (Brazilian) (pt), 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[98] | Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en), French (fr), German (de), Japanese (ja), Swedish (sv) | 7 |
| Opera[99] | 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), Norwegian (Bokmål) (no), Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt, pt-BR), Punjabi (pa), Romanian (ro) Russian (ru),Serbian (sr), Slovak (sk), Spanish (es-ES, es-LA), Swedish (sv), Tamil (ta), Telugu (te), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk) | 44 |
| 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), Russian (ru), Swedish (sv), Chinese (zh) | 15 |
| SeaMonkey[100] | Belarusian (be), Catalan (ca), Chinese (Simplified), Czech (cs), Dutch (nl), English (en-GB, en-US), Finnish (fi), French (fr), Galician (gl), Georgian (ka), German (de), Hungarian (hu), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Lithuanian (lt), Norwegian (no), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Russian (ru), Slovak (sk), Spanish (es-ES, es-LA), Swedish (sv), Turkish (tr) | 23 |
| 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), Japanese (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 |
Note (1):Officially endorsed language pack
Note (1):Dropped in Mozilla Firefox 3.6+ due to collaboration difficulties[101]
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) |
Total (number / oldest) | |
| Google Chrome 9 | 0 | 1 9 March 2011 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 2 8 March 2011 |
| Google Chrome 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Internet Explorer 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 17 November 2004 |
8 27 February 2004 |
11 7 November 2003 |
473 20 November 2000 |
| Internet Explorer 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 30 October 2006 |
4 6 June 2006 |
7 14 June 2007 |
26 15 August 2006 |
| Internet Explorer 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 26 February 2007 |
5 19 August 2009 |
62 14 January 2009 |
| Internet Explorer 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 5 March 2011 |
| Mozilla Firefox 3.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mozilla Firefox 3.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SeaMonkey 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Opera 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 15 March 2011 |
| Safari 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 8 June 2010 |
0 | 2 9 March 2011 |
| Browser | Extremely critical (number / oldest) |
Highly critical (number / oldest) |
Moderately critical (number / oldest) |
Less critical (number / oldest) |
Not critical (number / oldest) |
Total (number / oldest) |
| Secunia | SecurityFocus | |||||
| Known unpatched vulnerabilities | ||||||
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
- Usage share of web browsers
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- ^ "Opera 4.0 for Windows Released" (Press release). Opera Software. 27 June 2000. Retrieved 10 December 2008.
- ^ "The Browser War Lights Up in Europe" (Press release). Opera Software. 6 December 2000. Retrieved 10 December 2008.
- ^ "Opera 6.0 for Windows launched after record-breaking beta" (Press release). Opera Software. 29 November 2001. Retrieved 19 February 2008.
- ^ "Opera 7 Ready to Rock the Web" (Press release). Opera Software. 28 January 2003. Retrieved 19 February 2008.
- ^ "Speed, Security and Simplicity: Opera 8 Web Browser Released Today" (Press release). Opera Software. 19 April 2005. Retrieved 19 February 2008.
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- Amaya release history
- AOL Explorer release notes
- Arlington Kiosk Browser release history
- Camino 1.5.5 release notes
- Epiphany News
- Firefox 4.0 release notes
- iCab Information
- Konqueror news
- Lunascape release notes & Lunascape Product Download page
- 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
External links
- ACID2 test results (wiki)
- Understanding the Web browser threat by Stefan Frei et al.
- Browser share on w3schools.com
- Browser speed comparisons
- Online browser speed test (JavaScript)
- Web Standard support (detailed)
- Web browser security summary
- Comparison of : Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera