Comparison of web browsers
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of web browsers.
General information
Basic general information about the browsers: creator, company, license, price, etc. Browsers listed on a light purple background are discontinued.
Browser | Creator | Cost (USD) | Software license | Current layout engine | Latest release version | ||||||||||||
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Amaya (discontinued) | W3C, INRIA | Free | W3C | custom | 11.4.4 (January 18, 2012) [±] | ||||||||||||
AOL Explorer (discontinued) | America Online, Inc | Free | Proprietary | Trident | 1.5 (May 10, 2006) [±] | ||||||||||||
Arora (discontinued) | Benjamin C. Meyer | Free | GPL | WebKit | 0.11.0[1] (27 September 2010) [±] | ||||||||||||
Avant | Avant Force | Free | Proprietary | Blink, Gecko, Trident | 2020 build 3 (March 17, 2020[2]) [±] | ||||||||||||
Basilisk | Moonchild Productions | Free | MPL 2.0 | Goanna | 2020.06.10 (10 June 2020[3]) [±] | ||||||||||||
Blisk | Blisk team | Free (Limited), Paid (Unlimited Pro) |
Proprietary | Blink, V8 | 12.0.92.83 (June 29, 2019[4]) [±] | ||||||||||||
Brave | Brave Software Inc. | Free | MPL 2.0 | Blink |
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Camino (discontinued) | The Camino Project | Free | MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 tri-license | Gecko | 2.1.2 (14 March 2012[8]) | ||||||||||||
Cliqz | Cliqz GmbH | Free | MPL 2.0 | Gecko |
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Chrome | Free | BSD (Chromium executable) (some closed-source features) [note 1] |
Blink |
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Chromium | The Chromium Project | Free | BSD | Blink | (built nightly) | ||||||||||||
Comodo Dragon | Comodo Dragon | Free | BSD | Blink | 83.0.4103.116 (July 21, 2020[15]) [±] | ||||||||||||
Comodo IceDragon | Comodo IceDragon | Free | MPL 2.0 | Gecko | 65.0.2.15 (June 19, 2019[16]) [±] | ||||||||||||
Dillo (discontinued) | The Dillo team | Free | GPL | custom | 3.0.5[17] (30 June 2015) [±] | ||||||||||||
Dooble | Dooble Team | Free | BSD | Blink | 2020.07.07 (July 7, 2020[18]) [±] | ||||||||||||
ELinks (discontinued) | Baudis, Fonseca, et al. | Free | GPL | custom, fork of Links | 0.11.7[19] (22 August 2009) [±] | ||||||||||||
Falkon | David Rosca | Free | GPL 3.0 | Blink | 3.1.0.75 (March 19, 2019[20]) [±] | ||||||||||||
Flock (discontinued) | Flock Inc | Free | Proprietary (as of 3.0) | WebKit | 3.5.3.4641 (February 1, 2011) [±] | ||||||||||||
Galeon (discontinued) | Marco Pesenti Gritti | Free | GPL | Gecko | 2.0.7 (27 September 2008[21]) | ||||||||||||
GNU IceCat | GNU | Free | MPL 2.0 | Gecko | 60.7.0 (2 June 2019[22]) [±] | ||||||||||||
iCab | Alexander Clauss | Free, $20 (Pro) |
Proprietary (browser), LGPL (WebKit) | WebKit | 5.9.2 (March 4, 2020[23]) [±] | ||||||||||||
Internet Explorer | Microsoft, Spyglass |
Included with Windows | Proprietary | Trident | 11.0.205 (August 11, 2020[24]) [±] | ||||||||||||
Internet Explorer for Mac (discontinued) | Microsoft | Free | Proprietary | Tasman | 5.2.3 (discontinued in 2003) | ||||||||||||
K-Meleon | Dorian, KKO, et al. | Free | GPL | Gecko | 75.1 (September 19, 2015[25]) [±] | ||||||||||||
Konqueror | KDE | Free | GPL | KHTML, WebKit | 20.04.2 (11 June 2020[26]) [±] | ||||||||||||
Links | Patocka, et al. | Free | GPL | custom | 2.20.2 (25 September 2019[27][28]) [±] | ||||||||||||
Lunascape (discontinued) | Lunascape Corporation | Free | Proprietary | Blink, Gecko, Trident | 6.15.2 (February 25, 2018[29]) [±] | ||||||||||||
Lynx | Montulli, Grobe, Rezac, et al. | Free | GPL | custom, fork of libwww | 2.8.9rel.1[30][31] (8 July 2018) [±] | ||||||||||||
Maxthon | Maxthon International Limited | Free | Proprietary | Blink, Trident |
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Microsoft Edge | Microsoft | Free | EdgeHTML-based versions (until 2020): proprietary Chromium-based versions (2020 onwards): BSD (Chromium executable), some proprietary features [note 2] |
EdgeHTML (until 2020)
Blink (since 2020) |
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Midori | Christian Dywan, et al. | Free | LGPL | WebKit | 9.0 (July 29, 2019[43]) [±] | ||||||||||||
Mosaic (discontinued) | Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, NCSA | Free for non-commercial use | Proprietary | custom | 3.0 (discontinued in 1997) | ||||||||||||
Mozilla Application Suite (discontinued) | Mozilla Foundation | Free | MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 tri-license | Gecko | 1.7.13 (21 April 2006[44]) | ||||||||||||
Mozilla Firefox | Mozilla Foundation | Free | MPL 2.0 | Gecko (before v57). Gecko w/Servo (v57 & after) |
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Netscape (v.6–7) (discontinued) | Netscape Communications Corporation, AOL | Free | Proprietary (browser), MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 (Gecko) |
Gecko | 7.2 (discontinued in 2004) | ||||||||||||
Netscape Browser (v.8)[note 3] (discontinued) | Mercurial Communications for AOL | Free | Proprietary (browser & Trident), MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 (Gecko) |
Gecko, Trident | 8.1.3 (April 2, 2007) [±] | ||||||||||||
Netscape Communicator (v.4)[note 3] (discontinued) | Netscape Communications | Free | Proprietary | custom, fork of Mosaic | 4.8 (August 22, 2002) [±] | ||||||||||||
Netscape Navigator (v.1–4)[note 3] (discontinued) | Netscape Communications | Free | Proprietary | custom, fork of Mosaic | 4.0.8 (discontinued in 1998) | ||||||||||||
Netscape Navigator 9[note 3] (discontinued) | Netscape Communications (division of AOL) |
Free | Proprietary (browser), MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 (Gecko) |
Gecko | 9.0.0.6 (February 20, 2008) [±] | ||||||||||||
NetSurf | The NetSurf Developers | Free | GPL | custom | 3.10[48] (May 24, 2020) [±] | ||||||||||||
OmniWeb (discontinued) | The Omni Group | Free | Proprietary (browser), LGPL (WebKit) | WebKit | 5.11.2 (July 23, 2012) [±] | ||||||||||||
Opera | Opera Software | Free | Proprietary | Blink | 70.0.3728.106 (11 August 2020[49]) | ||||||||||||
Opera Mobile | Opera Software | Free | Proprietary | Blink |
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Origyn Web Browser (discontinued) | Sand-labs | Free | BSD | WebKit | 1.25 (AROS only)[54] 1.23r4 (AmigaOS 4 only)[55] 1.24 (15 April 2014[56]) [±] | ||||||||||||
Pale Moon | Moonchild Productions | Free | MPL 2.0 | Goanna | 28.12.0 (4 August 2020[57]) [±] | ||||||||||||
Polarity | Stanley Lim | Free | Proprietary (browser & Trident), BSD (Cef) | Blink, Trident | 10.0.1 (April 26, 2020[58]) [±] | ||||||||||||
rekonq (discontinued) | Andrea Diamantini | Free | GPL 3.0 | WebKit | 2.4.2[59][60] (12 January 2014) [±] | ||||||||||||
Roccat Browser | Runecats | Free | Proprietary (browser), LGPL (WebKit) | WebKit | 8.5 (March 15, 2019[61]) [±] | ||||||||||||
Safari | Apple Inc. | Included with macOS and iOS | Proprietary (browser), LGPL (WebKit) | WebKit |
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SalamWeb | Salam WebTechnologies DMCC | Free | Proprietary (browser) | Blink |
4.5 (July 31, 2020[64])
4.5 (June 20, 2020[65])
4.5.0.40 (June 25, 2020[66])
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SeaMonkey | SeaMonkey Council | Free | MPL 2.0 | Gecko | 2.53.3 (July 7, 2020[67]) [±] | ||||||||||||
Shiira (discontinued) | Happy Macintosh Developing Team | Free | BSD | WebKit | 2.3 (August 11, 2009) [±] | ||||||||||||
Sleipnir | Fenrir Inc. | Free | Proprietary | Blink, Trident |
6.4.6.4000 (May 28, 2020[68])
4.7.5.4000 (May 28, 2020[69])
4.7.5 (June 10, 2020[70])
4.6.4 (July 14, 2020[71])
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SRWare Iron | SRWare | Free | Proprietary | Blink |
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surf | suckless.org | Free | MIT | WebKit | 2.0 (28 March 2017[77]) [±] | ||||||||||||
Torch Browser | Torch Media | Free | Proprietary | Blink | 69.2.0.1706 (June 8, 2020[78]) [±] | ||||||||||||
Uzbl (discontinued) | Dieter Plaetinck | Free | GPL 3.0 | WebKit | 0.9.1 (October 27, 2016[79]) [±] | ||||||||||||
Vivaldi | Vivaldi Technologies | Free | Proprietary | Blink |
3.2 (1967.41) (August 5, 2020[80]) [±]
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Waterfox | Alex Kontos | Free | MPL 2.0 | Gecko | 2020.07.1 (2 July 2020[82]) [±] | ||||||||||||
Web (formerly named Epiphany) | Marco Pesenti Gritti | Free | GPL | WebKit | 3.36.4[83] (8 July 2020) [±] | ||||||||||||
WorldWideWeb (Later renamed Nexus) (discontinued) | Tim Berners-Lee | Free | Public domain | custom | 0.18 (January 14, 1994) [±] | ||||||||||||
w3m | Akinori Ito | Free | MIT | custom |
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Yandex Browser | Yandex | Free | Proprietary | Blink |
20.7.2 (July 2020[86])
20.6.2.318 (July 16, 2020[87])
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Browser | Creator | Cost (USD) | Software license | Current layout engine | Latest release version |
- Chromium, on which Google Chrome is based, is open source; the features Google adds to Chrome (such as H.264 and ACC decoding, built-in Adobe Flash, and an auto-updater system, among other things) are closed-source. See Chromium (web browser) § Differences from Google Chrome and Google Chrome's Terms of Service for more info.
- Chromium, on which Microsoft Edge is based, is open source; the features Microsoft adds to Edge are closed-source. See Chromium (web browser) for more info.
- 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.
Operating system support
Browsers are compiled to run on certain operating systems, without emulation.
This list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common OSes today (e.g. Netscape Navigator was also developed for OS/2 at a time when macOS 10 did not exist) but does not include the growing appliance segment (for example, the Opera web browser has gained a leading role for use in mobile phones, smartphones, the Nintendo DS and Wii, and Personal Digital Assistants, and is also used in some smart TVs). Both the web browser and OS means most recent version, example: Windows 8 with Internet Explorer 10.
Browser | Windows | macOS | Linux | BSD | Android | iOS | Other Unix |
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Amaya | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
AOL Explorer | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Arora | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Avant | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Basilisk | Yes | Yes[89] | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Brave | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Camino | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Cliqz | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Chromium | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Dillo | Partial | Yes | Yes[note 1] | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Dooble | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
ELinks | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Falkon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Flock | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Galeon | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Google Chrome | Yes | Yes[note 2] | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
iCab | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No |
GNU IceCat | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
Internet Explorer | Included | Dropped (5.2) | No | No | No | No | Dropped (5.0)[note 3] |
K-Meleon | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Konqueror | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Links | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Lunascape | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Lynx | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Maxthon | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Microsoft Edge | Included in Windows 10[note 4] | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Midori | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | Yes[note 5] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Mozilla Firefox ESR | Yes | Yes | Yes[note 5] | No[90] | No[90] | No[90] | No[90] |
NetSurf | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
OmniWeb | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Opera | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[note 6] | Yes |
Pale Moon | Yes | Yes[91] | Yes | No | Dropped | No | No |
Polarity | Yes | No | No | No | Yes[92] | No | No |
Rekonq | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Safari | Dropped (5.1.7) | Included | No | No | No | Included | No |
SalamWeb | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Shiira | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Sleipnir | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
SRWare Iron | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
surf | Partial | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Torch Browser | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Vivaldi | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
Web | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
WorldWideWeb (NeXTSTEP only) | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
w3m | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Browser | Windows | macOS | Linux | BSD | Android | iOS | 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.
- Microsoft Edge is included in Windows 10 and also supported on Windows 7 and later.
- Most Linux distributions which include a graphical user interface include a version of Firefox or a rebranded version of Firefox such as GNU IceCat.
- Opera Mini and Coast are available for iOS
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] | History | Favorites | Open tabs from previous sessions | Form managing | Spell checking | Search engine toolbar | Per-site security configuration | Privacy mode | Auto-updater |
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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 | No | |||
Avant | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 2] | Yes | ? | No | ? | |||
Basilisk | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
Brave | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
Camino | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | Yes | |||
Cliqz | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
Chrome | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes not old | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial Not available on mobile[93] | Yes [note 3] | Yes | ||
Chromium | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial[note 4] | Partial Not available on mobile[93] | Yes | Yes | |||
Dillo | Partial | No | No | No | No | Partial | ? | No | No | |||
Dooble | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | |||
ELinks | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |||
Falkon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 5] | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Notification only | |||
Flock | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial [note 6] | No | Yes | |||
Galeon | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | No | No | |||
iCab | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | ? | |||
Internet Explorer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 7] | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 8] | Yes [note 9] | |
Internet Explorer for Mac | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | ? | |||
K-Meleon | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 10] | Yes [note 10] | ? | |
Konqueror | Yes | Yes [note 11] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 12] | No | No | |||
Links | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | No | No | |||
Lunascape | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial[94] | Yes | Partial[94] | Partial[94] | Yes[95] | |||
Lynx | Yes | Yes | No | No | No [note 13] | No | Yes | No | No | |||
Maxthon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
Microsoft Edge | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial[note 4] | No | Yes | Yes [note 9] |
Midori | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | 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 | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 14] | 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 | Yes | No | No | No | |||
OmniWeb | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial [note 15] | No | Yes | |||
Opera | Yes [note 16] | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 17] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
Pale Moon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Polarity | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Notification only | |||
Rekonq | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | No | |||
Safari | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
SalamWeb | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial [note 6] | Yes | Yes | |||
Shiira | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | |||
Sleipnir | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Notification only | |||
SRWare Iron | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |||
surf | No[note 18] | No[note 19] | No | No | No | No[note 18] | Yes/No[note 20] | Yes/No[note 20] | No | |||
Torch Browser | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
Vivaldi | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
Web | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial[note 4] | No | Yes | No | |||
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] | History | Favorites | Open tabs from previous sessions | Form managing | Spell checking | Search engine toolbar | Per-site security configuration | Privacy mode | Auto-updater |
- In many integrated password saving tools there are often leaks that make them unsafe.[97]
- Spell checking can be added by installing an add-on like ieSpell.
- Starting with version 4, Google Chrome can disable Cookies, Images, JavaScript, Plugins, Popups, and Geolocation individually.
- Lacks search toolbar, but search URL autocompletion provided via addressbar.
- Available as a PIM plugin which is disabled by default, but it is part of default installation.
- 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.
- Internet Explorer 10 supports spell checking.
- Internet Explorer 8 supports InPrivate Browsing.
- There is no online update facility built into IE, but it gets updated by Windows Update when enabled. As of Version 10 automatic silent update is the default setting in Internet Explorer. In Microsoft Edge, the option to disable automatic updates via the about dialog is not included.
- Through the Privacy toolbar, K-Meleon Versions 1.5 and 1.6, can individually disable Cookies, Images, JavaScript, Popups, and Plugins (e.g. Flash and Java).
- For the download manager kdenetwork needs to be installed.
- Konqueror can handle per-site settings for cookies, pop-ups, JavaScript, Java and NPAPI modules (e.g. Flash).
- 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.[96]
- Opera versions before 15 had bookmarks. Newer Opera versions use a different concept called "Stash" instead.
- Opera can auto-complete forms with your personal information and website usernames. Also there is extension AutoComplete Archived 25 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine which can complete forms with form history.
- Developers distribute patch enabling this functionality.
- This functionality is handled via third-party software by browser's design.
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] | Auto-play blocking | Incremental search | Ad filtering | Page zooming [note 2] | Full text search of history | Content-modal dialogs[note 3] | Canvas fingerprinting protection |
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Amaya | Yes | N/A | No | No | No | Yes | No | ? | |
AOL Explorer | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | ? | |
Arora | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
Avant | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | |
Basilisk | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Brave | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | |
Camino | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | |
Cliqz | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | |
Chrome | Yes | Partial [note 4] | 66+[98] | Yes | No [note 5] | Yes | No [note 6] | Yes[note 7] | |
Chromium | Yes | Yes | 66+[98] | Yes | No | Yes | ? | Yes | |
Dillo | Yes | N/A | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Dooble | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | |
ELinks | Yes | N/A | No | Yes | N/A | N/A | No | No[note 8] | |
Falkon | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Optional [note 9] | |
Flock | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | |
Galeon | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
iCab | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | |
Internet Explorer | Yes [note 10] | Yes [note 11] | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 12] [99] | No | |
Internet Explorer for Mac | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | N/A | |
K-Meleon | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No [note 13] | Partial | No | ? | |
Konqueror | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
Links | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No[note 8] | |
Lunascape | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | ? | |
Lynx | No | N/A | No | No | N/A | N/A | No | No[note 8] | |
Maxthon | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | |
Microsoft Edge | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No [note 5] | Yes | No | No | |
Midori | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | |
Mosaic | No | N/A | No | No | No | No | No | ? | |
Mozilla | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes [note 13] | Yes | No | No | |
Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 13] | Yes | No | Yes[note 14] | Yes (warning) |
Netscape | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No [note 13] | No | No | No | |
Netscape Browser | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No [note 13] | No | No | No | |
Netscape Navigator | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Netscape Navigator 9 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No [note 13] | No | No | No | |
NetSurf | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | |
OmniWeb | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | |
Opera | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes [note 15] | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Pale Moon | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Polarity | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | ? | |
Rekonq | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | |
Safari | Yes | Yes [note 16] | Yes[100][101] | Yes | No [note 17] | Yes [note 18] | Yes (only Mac) [note 19] | Yes | |
SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes [note 13] | Yes [102] | No | No | |
Shiira | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | ? | |
Sleipnir | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | |
SRWare Iron | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | ? | |
surf | No[note 20] | No | No | Yes | No[note 20] | Yes | No[note 20] | No | |
Torch Browser | Yes | ? | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? | |
Web | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes [note 21] | Yes | Yes | Partial | |
WorldWideWeb | No | N/A | No | No | No | No | No | N/A | |
w3m | Yes | N/A | No | Yes | No | No | No | N/A | |
Browser | Tabbed browsing | Pop-up blocking [note 1] | Auto-play blocking | Incremental search | Ad filtering | Page zooming [note 2] | Full text search of history | Content-modal dialogs[note 3] | Canvas fingerprinting protection |
- A more complete list of Pop-Up blockers and addons / programs are in the following article List of pop-up blocking software.
- Page zooming is different from text resizing, as it resizes not only characters, but also multimedia objects and web page layout
- "Mozilla Developer Network - Using tab-modal prompts". Developer.mozilla.org. 3 February 2011. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- The option "Do not allow any site to show pop-ups" in Google Chrome, which is the default, actually allows sites to show pop-ups which are not considered harmful.
- Ad filter support can be added by installing an extension such as AdSweep, AdThwart or Adblock Plus.
- Feature was intentionally removed via regular patch update, due to poor impact on performance.
- "Chromium Issue 456: Javascript alerts are modal to Chrome UI, not to individual tab". Code.google.com. 3 September 2008. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- Although text browsers don't have dialog windows, their prompts behave as modal dialogs – block the input until answer is received.
- Requires building with "NONBLOCK_JS_DIALOGS" compile flag enabled; may cause crashes: https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla/blob/master/BUILDING%5B%5D.
- IE6 had no tabbed browsing support.
- IE6 included pop-up blocking with Windows XP Service Pack 2
- Full-text history search is available through a Windows Search iFilter[99]
- Most Gecko browsers have options to block chosen images and cookies. Extended Ad filter support can be added by installing an extension such as Adblock Plus.
- "Bug 59314 - JavaScript alerts should be content-modal, not window-modal". Bugzilla.mozilla.org. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- Opera 9 introduced a content blocker for webpages (Archived 9 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine). Earlier releases support wildcard protocol/domain/path and filetype blocking using a filter.ini file. ("Opera browser: Blocking unwanted ads and other cr*p using URL filtering". Archived from the original on 12 January 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2017.) More advanced Ad filtering for Opera can also be done with external software.
- 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.Archived 1 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- Page zooming supported in the iPhone version of Safari. Screen zooming is built into macOS.
- Full-text history search is available through Spotlight, a feature of the macOS operating system.
- This functionality is handled by third-party software by browser's design.
- Epiphany supports AdBlock as an official extension, in the epiphany-extensions package.
Accessibility features (continued)
Information about what common accessibility features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons).
Browser | Access keys | Tabbing navigation | Spatial navigation | Caret navigation | Smart Bookmarks | Mouse gesture | Text-to-speech | Voice control | Tab Stacking | Can disable font smoothing[note 1] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amaya | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
AOL Explorer | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
Arora | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
Avant | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | ||
Basilisk | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | |
Camino | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No [note 2] | No [note 3] | No | No | ||
Chrome | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 4] | No [note 4] | No [note 4] | Disabled | Dropped |
Chromium | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 4] | No [note 4] | No [note 4] | Disabled | Dropped | |
Dillo | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
Dooble | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
ELinks | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 5] | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Falkon | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 6] | Yes | Yes [note 7] | Yes [note 8] | No | No | No | |
Flock | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No [note 9] | No | No | No | ||
Galeon | ? | Yes | ? | Disabled | Yes | No | No | No | ||
iCab | Yes | No | No | No | No | No [note 3] | No | No | ||
Internet Explorer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[note 10] | Yes | No [note 11] | Yes[note 12] | Yes[note 13] | No | Dropped |
K-Meleon | Yes | Yes | No | Disabled | Yes | No | No | No | ||
Konqueror | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 14] | Depends [note 15] | No | No | |
Links | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ||
Lunascape | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ||
Lynx | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Maxthon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ||
Microsoft Edge | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes[note 12] | Yes[note 13] | ? | ? |
Midori | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | ||
Mosaic | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | No [note 16] | Yes | Yes | No [note 9] | No[note 17] | Yes | No | Yes |
Netscape Navigator | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
NetSurf | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
OmniWeb | Yes | Yes | No | No | No [note 2] | Yes | Yes | No | ||
Opera | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 18] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Dropped | Dropped |
Pale Moon | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | |
Polarity | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ||
Rekonq | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
Safari | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (only Mac) [note 19] | No | Yes (only Mac) [note 2] | Yes (only Mac) [note 3] | Yes (only Mac) [note 3] | Yes | ? |
SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No [note 20] | No | No | No | |
Shiira | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | ||
Sleipnir | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | ||
surf | ? | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
Torch Browser | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |||
Web | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No [note 21] | No | No | No | |
WorldWideWeb | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | No | No | ||
w3m | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
Browser | Access keys | Tabbing navigation | Spatial navigation | Caret navigation | Smart Bookmarks | Mouse gesture | Text-to-speech | Voice control | Tab Stacking | Can disable font smoothing |
- Font smoothing or font rasterization is arguably an accessibility feature affecting how the fonts are rendered and font readability. Also referred as ClearType or TrueType
- On Mac systems, gestures are available systemwide via multitouch sensing on trackpads and mice.
- On macOS, text-to speech and speech recognition are available systemwide and is available from menu in native Cocoa browsers.
- Google Chrome can be given these features using extensions like smooth gestures, speechify and voice control for google chrome.
- ELinks 0.12 supports spatial navigation.
- Available as of this commit.
- Supports as of v1.7.0: https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla/issues/458
- Available as a Mouse Gestures plugin which is disabled by default, but it is part of default installation.
- Mouse gesture support can be added by installing extensions like All-in-One Gestures (Firefox-only) and Mouse Gestures .
- Internet Explorer 8 supports caret browsing.
- Mouse gesture support is available via plug-ins, i.e. Mouse Gestures for Internet Explorer or Easy Go Back.
- TTS in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge is available through the operating system Speech API. For TTS, SAPI takes text as input and uses the TTS engine to output that text as spoken audio. This is the same technology used by the Windows accessibility tool, Narrator. SAPI and an English TTS engine have been embedded in all Windows operating systems since the release of Windows XP.
- Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge 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
- Doug Turner, the Minimo lead developer, has introduced spatial navigation to some special Firefox builds "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 22 April 2005. Retrieved 20 April 2005.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). It may build as a default part of Firefox "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 22 April 2005. Retrieved 20 April 2005.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link).
- Firefox works with a number of screen readers such as JAWS and Microsoft Speech API through extensions.
- "opera : a sort of caret navigation can be enabled by a button or a shortcut". Archived from the original on 1 November 2006. Retrieved 16 July 2009.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
- On macOS systems, caret navigation (called "Full Keyboard Access") can be enabled systemwide.
- Mouse gesture support can be added by installing extensions like Mouse Gestures Suite (Seamonkey-only) .
- Web supports mouse gestures as an extension from the official extensions package.
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).
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 rendering looks exactly like the rendering provided by the Acid tests website.
- Test does not report failed tests or abnormal delays (leftclick letter "A" to obtain a report)
Browser | Acid1 | Acid2 | Acid3 |
---|---|---|---|
Amaya | No | No | No |
AOL Explorer | No | No | No |
Arora | Yes | Yes | 100/100 |
Avant | No | No | No |
Brave | Yes | Yes | 97/100 |
Camino | Yes | Yes | 99/100 |
Chrome | Yes | Yes | 100/100[103] |
Chromium | Yes | Yes | 100/100 |
Comodo Dragon | Yes | Yes | 100/100 |
Dillo | No | No | No |
Dooble | Yes | Yes | 100/100 |
ELinks | No | No | No |
Falkon | Yes | Yes | 100/100 |
Flock | Yes | Yes | 80/100 |
Galeon | ? | Yes | 72/100 |
iCab | ? | Yes | 100/100 |
Internet Explorer | Yes | Yes | 100/100 |
Internet Explorer for Mac | Yes | No | No |
K-Meleon | Yes | Yes | Yes[note 1] |
Konqueror | Yes | Yes | 91/100[note 2] |
Links | ? | No | No |
Lunascape | ? | Yes | 100/100[104] |
Lynx | No | No | No |
Maxthon | Yes | Yes | 100/100 |
Microsoft Edge | Yes | Yes | 100/100 |
Midori | Yes | Yes | 100/100[105] |
Mosaic | No | No | No |
Mozilla | Yes | No | 35/100 |
Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | 100/100 |
Netscape | Yes | No | 35/100 |
Netscape Browser | Yes | No | 35/100 |
Netscape Navigator | No | No | Crashes |
Netscape Navigator 9 | Yes | No | 59/100 |
NetSurf | Yes | ? | No |
OmniWeb | Yes | Yes | No |
Opera | Yes | Yes | 100/100 |
Pale Moon | Yes | Yes | 100/100 |
Polarity | Yes | Yes | 100/100[106] |
Rekonq | Yes | Yes | 100/100 |
Safari | Yes | Yes | Yes[107] |
SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | 100/100 |
Shiira | Yes | Yes | 74/100 |
Sleipnir | Yes | Yes | ? |
surf | Yes | Yes | 100/100 |
Torch Browser | Yes | Yes | 100/100 |
Web | Yes | Yes | 100/100[105] |
WorldWideWeb | No | No | No |
w3m | No | No | No |
Vivaldi | ? | ? | ? |
Browser | Acid1 | Acid2 | Acid3 |
- K-M75++
- Konqueror scores 91/100 when using KHTML and 100/100 when using WebKit but still does not pass.
HTML5 support
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.[108]
Browser | HTML5test score[109] | HTML5 accessibility score[110] |
---|---|---|
Apple Safari 11 | 452/555 | 98% |
Google Chrome 62 | 528/555 | 92% |
Internet Explorer 11 | 312/555 | 56% |
Microsoft Edge 16 | 476/555 | 100% |
Mozilla Firefox 68 | 513/555 | 89% |
Opera 45 | 518/555 | 81% |
As new tests are added, bogus ones removed, etc., new versions of html5test.com become available as preliminary beta or even alpha versions. These are great to test development versions (e.g. nightly builds) of web browsers, but their results should be taken with a grain of salt. Especially when considering that some browsers have experimental features built in which may be switched off by default.
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 [note 2] |
Nav LINKs [note 3] |
XSLT | XHTML 1.0 [note 4] |
XHTML 1.1 [note 4] |
MathML | XForms | Web Forms 2.0 | VoiceXML / X+V | SMIL | VML |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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[111] | Yes |
Avant | Partial | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes[111] | Yes |
Arora | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | No |
Basilisk | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Camino | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Chrome | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[112] | No | No | No | No | No |
Dillo | Partial | Partial [note 6] | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No |
Dooble | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | No |
ELinks | Partial | Yes | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No |
Falkon | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Flock | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Galeon | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? | No |
iCab | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No |
Internet Explorer | Yes [note 7] | Yes | No [note 8] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 5] | No [note 9] | No [note 10] | No | Yes[111] | Yes |
Internet Explorer for Mac | Partial | Yes | ? | Partial | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | ? |
K-Meleon | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 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 [115] | Yes | Depends [note 8] | Yes | Yes [115] | Yes [115] | Yes [115] | Yes [115] | No | No | Yes [115][111] | Yes [115] |
Lynx | No | Partial | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Maxthon | Partial | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes[111] | Yes |
Microsoft Edge | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Midori | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | No |
Mosaic | 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 8] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 11] | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Netscape | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Netscape Browser | Depends [116] | Yes | ? | Yes | Depends [116] | Depends [116] | Depends [116] | 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 | Yes | No |
Pale Moon | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Polarity | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Safari | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Shiira | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | No |
Sleipnir | Partial | Yes | No [note 8] | Yes | No | No | No [note 5] | No | No [note 10] | No | Yes[111] | Yes |
surf | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | No |
Torch Browser | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Web | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | No |
WorldWideWeb | 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 [note 2] |
Nav LINKs [note 3] |
XSLT | XHTML 1.0 [note 4] |
XHTML 1.1 [note 4] |
MathML | XForms | Web Forms 2.0 | VoiceXML / X+V | SMIL | VML |
- 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 the W3C website. (CSS 3 is only in draft status at present.) For more detailed information please see comparison of layout engines (CSS).
- Frames and frame sets are obsolete and non-conforming in HTML5. They should not be used by authors.
- LINK as a navigational aid, as distinct from non-navigational uses of LINK.
- 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).
- Available with the MathPlayer plugin.
- Dillo displays frames as links that the user can click on.
- Microsoft claims Internet Explorer 8 has full CSS2.1 support,[113] however independent testing revealed several bugs.[114]
- Not in standard install, but provided by extension. Archived 14 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine Archived 13 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- Available with the FormsPlayer plugin and several other plugins.
- Web Forms 2.0 can be emulated in IE using DHTML behaviours, available from SourceForge.
- XForms is supported experimentally in nightly builds dated after 28 January 2005 . Requires installation of an extension.
Plugins and syndicated content support
Information about what web standards, and technologies the browsers support. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.
Browser | ActiveX [note 1] | NPAPI [note 1] | Java [note 2] | Gears | RSS | Atom | other web feed |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amaya | No | ? | ? | No | No | No | ? |
AOL Explorer | Yes | No | ? | No | Yes [note 3] | Yes [note 3] | ? |
Avant | Yes | No | ? | ? | Yes [note 3] | Yes [note 3] | ? |
Basilisk | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
Camino | No | Yes | ? | ? | Partial | Partial | ? |
Chrome | No | Dropped[note 4] | Dropped[note 4] | Dropped[117] | No | No | ? |
Dillo | No | ? | No | No | No | No | ? |
ELinks | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Falkon | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
Flock | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
Galeon | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
iCab | No | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? |
Internet Explorer | Yes | No [note 5] | No | Yes | Yes [note 3] | Yes [note 3] | Yes [note 6] |
Internet Explorer for Mac | No | Yes | ? | No | No | No | No |
K-Meleon | No | Yes | No | ? | Yes | Yes | ? |
Konqueror | No | Yes | No | No | Yes [note 7] | Yes [note 7] | ? |
Links | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Lynx | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Maxthon | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? |
Microsoft Edge | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Mosaic | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No |
Mozilla | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? |
Mozilla Firefox | No | Dropped | Dropped | 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 | Dropped | No | No | Dropped | Dropped | No |
Pale Moon | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
Polarity | Yes[note 8] | Yes[note 9] | No | No | Yes | ? | ? |
Safari | No | Dropped | No[note 10] | Partial[note 11] | Dropped | No | ? |
SeaMonkey | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
Shiira | No | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? |
Sleipnir | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes [note 3] | Yes [note 3] | ? |
surf | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Web | No | Yes | No | No | No [note 12] | No [note 12] | No |
WorldWideWeb | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
w3m | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Browser | ActiveX [note 1] | NPAPI [note 1] | Java | Gears | RSS | Atom | other web feed |
- Internet Explorer (and Shells) is the only browser to natively support the Component Object Model (popularly known as ActiveX). Most other browsers use the NPAPI plugin architecture. ActiveX is more powerful than NPAPI in terms of the control it affords over the browser, but it is specific to Windows whereas NPAPI is cross-platform. There is a third-party plugin that adds partial ActiveX support, that is available for certain older versions of Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Firefox and Netscape Navigator. The default settings in earlier versions of Internet Explorer allowed the automatic download, installation, and running of new ActiveX controls with minimal user intervention – this made it possible to use ActiveX on web pages to install viruses, spyware, etc. onto a user's computer.
- Java support is for built-in support by the browser without a plugin.
- Internet Explorer 7 and later
- NPAPI and the Java-plugin were disabled by default in Chrome versions 42 and not supported in Chrome versions 45 and higher.
- 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.[118][119][120]
- Internet Explorer 8 supports syndicated content in
hAtom
/hSlice
microformat by the name of a feature known as Web Slices. Internet Explorer 4.0—7 supported CDF. - RSS and ATOM feed autodetection in Konqueror depends on the aKregator package which is installed with kdepim.
- Only supported in Trident mode.
- Only supported in Blink mode.
- Safari had Java only on macOS, up to Safari 11. No longer supported Safari for Windows needed a plugin.
- Safari has Gears only on Mac OS X 10.4+. Windows is not supported
- RSS and ATOM feed autodetection in Epiphany depends on the Newsfeed extension which is included with Epiphany-extensions.
JavaScript support
Information about what JavaScript technologies the browsers support. Note that although XPath is used by XSLT, it is only considered here if it can be accessed using JavaScript. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality, e.g., Babel.
Browser | JavaScript | ECMAScript 3 | DOM 1 | DOM 2 | DOM 3 | XPath | 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 |
Basilisk | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial [note 2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Camino | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Chrome | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Dillo | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
ELinks | Partial | Partial | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Falkon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | 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 |
GNU IceCat | Partial (determined by GNU LibreJS) | See Firefox ESR | See Firefox ESR | See Firefox ESR | See Firefox ESR | See Firefox ESR | See Firefox ESR | See Firefox ESR | See Firefox ESR |
iCab | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Internet Explorer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 3] | Yes | 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 |
Microsoft Edge | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | 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 [116] | Depends [116] | No [note 2] | Depends [116] | 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 |
Pale Moon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial [note 2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Polarity | 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 |
surf | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 5] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Web | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 5] | 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 |
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- SVG / XPath / (partial) DOM 3 is only available in the WebKit nightlies so far.
Protocol support
Information about what internet protocols the browsers support (in addition to HTTP that all (modern) browser should and do fully support[note 1]). External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.
More than half of web traffic from Chrome to Google's servers is handled by QUIC protocol, not TCP (or HTTP/1). Chrome (and Opera) have support for QUIC, and HTTP/3.
Browser | HTTP/2 | FTP [note 2] |
NNTP [note 3] |
SSL | EV | IRC | Gopher | IDN | data:URI | BitTorrent | IPv6 | Proxy | DoH |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amaya | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
AOL Explorer | No | Yes | No | Yes [note 4] | Yes | No | No [note 5] | No | No | No | Yes | ? | ? |
Avant | No | Yes | No | Yes[note 4] | Yes | No | No [note 5] | No | No | No | Yes | ? | ? |
Basilisk | Yes | Yes | No [note 6] | Yes | Yes | No [note 7] | No | Yes [note 8] | Yes | No [note 9] | Yes | Yes | ? |
Camino | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? |
Chrome | Yes[121] | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Dillo | ? | Yes | No | No [note 10] | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? |
ELinks | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial[note 11] | ? |
Falkon (formerly QupZilla) | ? | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
Flock | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No [note 7] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? |
Galeon | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
iCab | ? | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | ? |
Internet Explorer | Yes[122] | Yes | No | Yes [note 4] | Yes | No | Dropped [note 5] | Yes | Partial [note 12] | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Internet Explorer for Mac | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
K-Meleon | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
Konqueror | ? | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No [note 13] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
Links | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Partial[note 11] | ? |
Lynx | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Partial[note 11] | ? |
Maxthon | No | Yes | No | Yes [note 4] | Yes | No | No [note 5] | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
Microsoft Edge | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Mosaic | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | ? |
Mozilla | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 8] | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? |
Mozilla Firefox | Yes[124][125] | Yes | No [note 6] | Yes | Yes | No [note 7] | Dropped [note 14] | Yes [note 8] | Yes | No [note 9] | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Netscape | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No [note 7] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? |
Netscape Browser | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Depends [116] | Depends [116] | Depends [116] | No | ? | ? | ? |
Netscape Navigator | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
Netscape Navigator 9 | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No [note 7] | Yes | Yes [note 8] | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? |
NetSurf | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? |
OmniWeb | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes[126] | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? |
Opera | Yes[127] | Yes | Dropped | Yes | Yes | Dropped | No [note 15] | Yes | Yes | Dropped | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Pale Moon | Yes | Yes | No [note 6] | Yes | Yes | No [note 7] | No | Yes [note 8] | Yes | No [note 9] | Yes | Yes | ? |
Polarity | ? | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
Safari | Yes[127] | Partial | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
SeaMonkey | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 8] | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
Shiira | No | ? | ? | Yes | ? | No | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes | ? | ? |
Sleipnir | ? | Yes | No | Yes [note 4] | Yes | No | No [note 5] | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | ? |
surf | ? | No | No | Partial[note 16] | Partial[note 16] | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Partial[note 11] | ? |
Web | ? | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Partial[note 11] | ? |
WorldWideWeb | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? |
w3m | ? | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes | ? | ? | No | Yes | ? | ? |
Browser | HTTP/2 | FTP [note 2] |
NNTP [note 3] |
SSL | EV | IRC | Gopher | IDN | data:URI | BitTorrent | IPv6 | Proxy | DoH |
- Mosaic reached only HTTP 0.9 compliance, and does not support secure communications in any way.
- Many browsers have FTP support as read-only and have no upload capitilies. Read-only is marked as yes. For a comparison of clients that support upload opportunities see Comparison of FTP client software.
- Many browsers have purposely avoided support for e-mail and newsgroups (Usenet), as these are reserved for their mail-client counterparts. For a comparison of such counterparts see comparison of e-mail clients and Comparison of Usenet newsreaders.
- Support for 256-bit ciphers (AES for example) for SSL/TLS is only available in Windows Vista and above[128][129]
- Internet Explorer 7 has no support of gopher; gopher support is disabled in IE6
- NNTP support can be added by installing the add-on infoRSS.
- IRC support can be added by installing ChatZilla.
- For security reasons, IDN domains are displayed as punycode if they contain certain characters or if the top level domain has not been whitelisted .
- Possible using third party extensions like FoxTorrent Archived 27 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- Dillo has experimental SSL integration that is by standard turned off. "How do I enable the https (SSL) support plugin for dillo?". Archived from the original on 9 May 2008. Retrieved 12 April 2017. There is no certificate caching and no authentication performed.
- Respects system-wide proxy settings.
- 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.[123] - Konqueror has full Gopher support when the kgopher KIO plugin is installed.
- Firefox support for the Gopher protocol was dropped in Firefox 4 (Gecko 1.9.3) per bug 388195. This and newer versions have full Gopher support when the OverbiteFF extension is installed.
- Includes a proxy capability for gopher support.
- Behavior towards malicious certificates can only be set up in compile time.
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 | JPEG XR | WebP | GIF | PNG | APNG | MNG | TIFF [note 1] | SVG [note 2] | PDF [note 3] | 2D Canvas | XBM | BMP | ICO | HEIF |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amaya | Yes | ? | No | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Partial | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? |
AOL Explorer | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Partial [note 4] | No | No | disable | No | No | No [note 5] | No [note 6] | ? | ? | ? |
Avant | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | disable | Partial | No | Yes | No [note 6] | ? | ? | ? |
Basilisk | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Partial | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
Camino | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Partial [note 7] | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Chrome | Yes | No | No[130] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 8] | No | No | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Chromium | Yes | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 8] | ? | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No |
Dillo | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
ELinks | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
Falkon | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Partial [note 9] | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
Flock | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Dropped | No | No | Partial [note 7] | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Galeon | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
iCab | Yes | ? | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Internet Explorer | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Partial | No | Yes ,[131][note 5] | Dropped [note 6] | Yes | Yes | No |
Internet Explorer for Mac | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? |
K-Meleon | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | ? | ? |
Konqueror | Yes | Yes [note 10] | No | ? | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes [note 11] | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? |
Links | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Lynx | Yes/No[note 12] | No | Yes/No[note 12] | ? | ? | |||||||||||
Maxthon | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | disable | Partial | No | Yes | No [note 6] | Yes | ? | ? |
Microsoft Edge | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Midori | Yes | Yes [note 13] | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Partial [note 14] | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Mosaic | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Mozilla | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Dropped [note 15] | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Mozilla Firefox | Yes | No[132] | No[133] | Yes[134] | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 16] | No[135] | No[136] | Partial [note 7] | Yes | Yes | Dropped [note 17] | Yes | Yes | No |
Netscape | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Dropped [note 18] | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Netscape Browser | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Depends [116] | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Netscape Navigator | Yes | No | No | No | Partial | 32-bit version only | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Netscape Navigator 9 | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Partial | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
NetSurf | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | No | Dropped [note 19] | No | Partial | No | No | No | Yes | ? | ? |
OmniWeb | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Partial | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Opera | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[note 20] | No | No | Partial [note 21] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
Pale Moon | Yes | No | Yes [note 22] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Partial | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
Polarity | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Partial | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
Safari | Yes | Dropped [note 13] | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Partial [note 14] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes [note 23] |
SeaMonkey | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 16] | No | No | Partial [note 7] | No [note 24] | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
Shiira | Yes | ? | No | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Partial | No | Partial | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Sleipnir | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Partial [note 4] | No | No | disable | Partial | No | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? |
surf | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Partial | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
Torch Browser | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 8] | ? | ? | Partial | No | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? |
Web | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Dropped | No | No | Partial | No [note 24] | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
WorldWideWeb | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? |
w3m | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Browser | JPEG | JPEG 2000 | JPEG XR | WebP | GIF | PNG | APNG | MNG | TIFF [note 1] | SVG [note 2] | PDF [note 3] | 2D Canvas | XBM | BMP | ICO | HEIF |
- Although it was one of the first suggested WWW image formats, most browsers support TIFF by using a plugin installed by the user instead of decoding it natively.
- 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.
- 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 macOS.
- 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 .
- Support for the canvas element was added to Internet Explorer 9. Earlier versions of Internet Explorer can be made to emulate canvas using the excanvas script.
- Internet Explorer support for XBM files was removed in Version 6.
- Firefox and SeaMonkey partially support SVG 1.1 Full. Modules that are implemented or not implemented and details of their implementation: .
- For Chromium prior to version 59 there is support via an extension.
- Falkon supports as much SVG specification as WebKit does: .
- Konqueror supports JPEG2000 if KDE's viewer is compiled with Jasper library.
- Inline PDF viewing in Konqueror requires KPDF which is included in kdegraphics.
- While lacking support for inline display of graphical elements, Lynx allows defining standalone image viewer and assigning programs to MIME types. Such program is called when user activates corresponding element, effectively allowing Lynx user to add support for arbitrary non-inlined file format.
- Safari supported JPEG2000 through QuickTime plugin, which is an optional software bundle for Safari installation on Windows, and an integrated component in macOS until Mojave, since Safari 12 dropped support for NPAPI plugins (including QuickTime).
- Safari 3 is able to render SVG documents, but not fully .
- Support of MNG/JNG was dropped since 6 June 2003 . There are unofficial obsolete builds with MNG/JNG called Mngzilla .
- Mozilla applications rebranded by the GNU 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.
- Support for MNG/JNG has been dropped since 4 January 2014 .
- Opera is currently supporting APNG on their Beta and Dev builds.
- Opera supports SVG 1.1 Basic. Archived 4 June 2012[Timestamp length] at Archive.today
- Pale Moon supports JPEG-XR from the first quarter of 2017.
- Safari support for HEIF pronounced in 2017 from version 11 on operating systems macOS Sierra and iOS 11.
- 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.
Native multimedia support
Internationalization
Most browsers are available in more than one language.
Browser | Languages | Total |
---|---|---|
Amaya[137][138] | 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) | 18 |
AOL Explorer | English (en), French (fr), German (de) | 3 |
Avant | English (en), Arabic (ar), Basque (eu), Bulgarian (bg), Catalan (ca), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Chinese (zh-TW), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), French (fr), Frisian (fy), German (de), Greek (el), Hebrew (he), Hungarian (hu), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Persian (fa), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt-BR), Russian (ru), Spanish (es), Thai (th), Turkish (tr), English (en-GB), Ukrainian (uk) | 28 |
Basilisk | American English (en-US) | 1 |
Camino[139] | Chinese (zh-CN, zh-TW), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en), French (fr), German (de), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Lithuanian (lt), Norwegian (nb, and nn), Portuguese (pt), Slovak (sk), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv) | 15 |
Chrome | Arabic (ar), Portuguese (pt-BR), Bengali (bn), Bulgarian (bg), Catalan (ca), Chinese (zh-CN zh-TW), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en-US en-GB), Estonian (et), Filipino (fil), Finnish (fi), French (fr), German (de), Greek (el), Gujarati (gu), Hebrew (he), Hindi (hi), Hungarian (hu), Indonesian (id), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Kanada (kn), 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 (es-LA), Swedish (sv), Tamil (ta), Telugu (te), Thai (th), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi)[140] | 48 |
Dillo[141] | English (en), Japanese (ja), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) | 4 |
ELinks[142] | 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 |
Falkon[143] | Arabic (ar), Basque (eu), Bulgarian (bg), Catalan (ca), Chinese (zh-CN, zh-TW), Croatian (hr), Czech (cz), Dutch (nl), English (en), Finnish (fi), French (fr), Galician (gl), Ganda (lg), Georgian (ka), German (de), Greek (el), Hebrew (he), Hungarian (hu), Indonesian (id), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Latvian (lv), N'ko (nqo), Persian (fa), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt-BR, and pt-PT), Romanian (ro), Russian (ru), Serbian (sr), Slovak (sk), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk), Uzbek (uz) | 35 |
Flock[144] | Arabic (ar), Chinese (zh-CN, zh-TW), English (en), Finnish (fi), French (fr), Georgian (ka), German (de), Hungarian (hu), Korean (ko), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt-PT), Russian (ru), Slovak (sk), Spanish (es-AR, and es-ES) | 14 |
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 (no-nb, no-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 (zh-TW) | 48 |
iCab[145] | German (de), English (en), Japanese (ja), Danish (da), French (fr), Spanish (es), Russian (ru), Norwegian (no), Chinese (zh-CN) | 9 |
Internet Explorer[146] | Afrikaans (af), Albanian (sq), Amharic (am), Arabic (ar), Armenian (hy), Assamese (as), Azeri (az), Bengali (bn-BD, and bd-IN)) (bn), Basque (eu), Bosnian (bs-Latn), Bulgarian (bg), Catalan (ca), Chinese (zh-HK, zh-CN, zh-TW), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dari (af-FA), Dutch (nl), English (en), Estonian (et), Filipino (fil), Finnish (fi), French (fr), Galician (gl), Georgian (ka), German (de), Greek (el), Gujarati (gu), Hausa (ha), Hebrew (he), Hindi (hi), Hungarian (hu), Icelandic (is), Igbo (ig), Indonesian (id), Irish (ga), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Kannada (kn), Kazakh (kk), Khmer (km), KiSwahili (sw), Konkani (kok), Korean (ko), Kyrgyz (ky), Latvian (lv), Lithuanian (lt), Luxembourgish (lb), Macedonian (mk), Malay (ms-BN, ms-My), Malayalam (ml), Maltese (mt), Maori (mi), Marathi (mr), Mongolian (mn), Nepali (ne), Norwegian (no-nb, no-nn), Oriya (or), Persian (fa), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt-BR, pt-PT), Punjabi (pa), Quechua (qu), Romanian (ro), Russian (ru), Serbian (sr-Cyrl-BA, sr-Cyrl-RS, sr-Latn), Sesotho (st), Setswana (tn), Sinhala (si), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), Tamil (ta), Tatar (tt), Telugu (te), Thai (th), Turkish (tr), Turkmen (tk), Ukrainian (uk), Urdu (ur), Uzbek (uz), Vietnamese (vi), Welsh (cy), Yoruba (yo), isiXhosa (kh), isiZulu (zu) | 95 |
Internet Explorer for Mac | German (de), English (en), Spanish (es), French (fr), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Swedish (sv) | 7 |
K-Meleon[147] | Chinese (zh-CN), English (en), French (fr), German (de), Spanish (es), Russian (ru) | 6 |
Konqueror | Afrikaans (af), Arabic (ar), Belarusian (be), Bulgarian (bg), Bengali (bn), Bosnian (bs), Catalan (ca), Chinese (zh, zh-CN), 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 (no-nn, no-nb), 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) | 46 |
Links | Belarusian (be), 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 (zh-CN, zn-TW), English (en), French (fr), German (de), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Portuguese (pt), Russian (ru), Spanish (es) | 10 |
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 (zh-CN, zh-TW) | 21 |
Maxthon | Arabic (ar), Basque (eu), 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 (stq), Galician (gl), German (de), Greek (el), Hebrew (he), Hungarian (hu), Italian (it-IT, it-RM, it-MI) (it), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Lithuanian (lt), Malay (ms), Norwegian (no), Piedmontese (pms), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Portuguese (Brazilian) (pt), Romanian (ro), Russian (ru), Serbian (sr-Cyrl, sr-Latn), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Spanish (es), Spanish (es-AR), Swedish (sv), Thai (th), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi) | 44 |
Microsoft Edge[148] | Arabic (ar-SA), Bulgarian (bg-BG), Chinese (zh-CN, zh-HK, zh-TW), Croatian (hr-HR), Czech (cs-CZ), Danish (da-DK), Dutch (nl-NL), English (en-GB, en-US), Estonian (et-EE), Finnish (fi-FI), French (fr-FR, fr-CA), German (de-DE), Greek (el-GR), Hebrew (he-IL), Hungarian (hu-HU), Italian (it-IT), Japanese (ja-JP), Korean (ko-KR), Latvian (lv-LV), Lithuanian (lt-LT), Norwegian (no-nb-NO), Polish (pl-PL), Portuguese (pt-BR pt-PT), Romanian (ro-RO), Russian (ru-RU), Serbian (sr-Latn-SP), Slovak (sk-SK), Slovenian (sl-SI), Spanish (es-ES, es-MX), Swedish (sv-SE), Thai (th-TH), Turkish (tr-TR), Ukrainian (uk-UA) | 33 |
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[149] | Acholi (ach), Afrikaans (af), Akan (ak), Albanian (sq), Arabic (ar), Armenian (hy), Assamese (as), Asturian (ast), Azerbaijani (az), Basque (eu), Belarusian (be), Bengali (bn-IN, bn-BD) (bn), Bosnian (bs), Breton (br), Bulgarian (bg), Catalan (ca), Chinese (zh-CN, zh-TW), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en-GB, en-ZA, and en-US) (en), Esperanto (eo), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), Fula (ff), French (fr), Frisian (fy), Friulian (fur), 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), Kashubian (csb), Khmer (km), Kazakh (kk), Korean (ko), Kurdish (ku), Latvian (lv), Ligurian (lig), Lithuanian (lt), Luganda (lg), Macedonian (mk), Maithili (mai), Malay (ms), Malayalam (ml), Marathi (mr), Northern Sotho (nso), Norwegian (no-nb, no-nn), Occitan (oc), Oriya (or), Persian (fa), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt-BR, pt-PT), Punjabi (pa), Romanian (ro), Romansh (rm), Russian (ru), Serbian (sr), Sinhala (si), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Songhai (son), Spanish (es-AR, es-CL, es-MX, es-ES) (es), Swedish (sv), Tamil (ta), Tamil (ta-LK) (ta), Tatar (tt), Telugu (te), Thai (th), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Welsh (cy), Zulu (zu) | 91 |
Netscape[150] | 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[151] | Portuguese (pt-BR), Chinese (zh), Czech (cs), English (en), Danish (da), Finnish (fi), French (fr), German (de), Greek (el), Hungarian (hu), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Norwegian (no), Polish (pl), Russian (ru), Slovenian (sl), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), Turkish (tr) | 20 |
Netscape Navigator 9 | English (en) | 1 |
NetSurf | Dutch (nl), English (en), French (fr), German (de) | 4 |
OmniWeb[152] | Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en), French (fr), German (de), Japanese (ja), Swedish (sv) | 7 |
Opera[153] | Afrikaans (af), Azerbaijani (az), Belarusian (be), Bengali (bn), Bulgarian (bg), Chinese (zh-CN, zh-TW), 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), Malay (ms), Montenegrin (mis), Norwegian (no-nb, no-nn), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt, pt-BR), Punjabi (pa), Romanian (ro), Russian (ru), Serbian (sr), Slovak (sk), Spanish (es-ES, es-LA), Swedish (sv), Tagalog (tl), Tamil (ta), Thai (th), Telugu (te), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk), Uzbek (uz), Vietnamese (vi), Zulu (zu) | 47 |
Pale Moon | Bulgarian (bg), Simplified Chinese (zh-CN), Czech (cs), Dutch (nl), American English (en-US), British English (en-GB), Filipino (tl), French (fr), Greek (el), Hungarian (hu), Italian (it), Korean (ko), Polish (pl), Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR), European Portuguese (pt-PT), Russian (ru) Argentine Spanish (es-AR), Mexican Spanish (es-M), Castilian Spanish (es-ES), Slovak (sk) Swedish (sv-SE), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk) | 23[154] |
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[155] | Belarusian (be), Catalan (ca), Chinese (zh-CN), 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 (zh-CN, zh-TW), 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 (zh-CN, zh-TW), English (en), Japanese (ja) | 3 |
SRWare Iron | English (en), German (de), Russian (ru) | 3 |
surf | Browser lacks user interface elements to be translated; see WebKitGTK+ for status of engine messages' translation. | 0 |
Torch Browser | English (en), French (fr), Spanish es), Turkish (tr), Italian (it), Portuguese (pt), German (de) | 7 |
Web[156] | Amharic (am), Arabic (ar), Azerbaijani (az), Belarusian (be), Belarusian (be-Latn), 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) (nb), 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 |
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 |
Security and vulnerabilities
For comparison of unpatched publicly known vulnerabilities in latest stable version browsers based on vulnerabilities reports see Secunia. See browser security for more details about the importance of unpatched known flaws.
See also
- List of web browsers
- Comparison of browser engines
- Comparison of layout engines (XML)
- Comparison of layout engines (XHTML)
- Comparison of layout engines (XHTML 1.1)
- Comparison of layout engines (graphics)
- Comparison of layout engines (typography)
- 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)
- Comparison of lightweight web browsers
- Usage share of web browsers
- Comparison of download managers
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