List of web browsers for Unix and Unix-like operating systems

The following is a list of web browsers for various Unix and Unix-like operating systems. Not all of these browsers are specific to these operating systems; some are available on non-Unix systems as well. Some, but not most, have a mobile version.

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Colored items in this table are discontinued.

Web browser	Layout engine	UI toolkit	Source model	Status	Notes
Abaco	Custom	Custom (Acme-like)	Closed source	Discontinued	For Plan 9
Amaya	Custom	wxWidgets	Closed source	Discontinued	Also a web page composer tool (HTML editor)
Angelfish	Blink	Qt	Open-source		Adaptive browser for KDE and Plasma Mobile using QtWebEngine.
Arena	Custom	Xlib	Closed source	Discontinued	Discontinued testbed for W3C
Arora	WebKit	Qt	Open-source	Discontinued
Basilisk	Goanna	XUL	Open-source		Basilisk is a fork of Firefox with substantial divergence, especially for add-ons.
Beonex Communicator	Gecko	GTK+	Open-source	Discontinued	A separate branch of the Mozilla Application Suite
Brave	Blink	GTK	Open-source		Mozilla Public License, version 2
Camino	Gecko	Cocoa	Open-source	Discontinued	Formerly called Chimera; Requires Mac OS X
Conkeror	Gecko	XUL	Open-source	Discontinued
Chromium	Blink	GTK	Open-source		Close affinity with Google Chrome
Dillo	Dillo	FLTK	Open-source		Versions prior to 2.0 were built upon GTK+.
Dooble	Qt WebEngine	Qt	Open-source		BSD License
Fifth	WebKit	FLTK	Open-source		Aimed at replicating the pre-v15 Opera user experience.
Flock	Gecko	XUL	Open-source	Discontinued	Specialised version of Mozilla Firefox
Galeon	Gecko	GTK+	Open-source	Discontinued
GNU IceCat	Gecko	XUL	Open-source		Rebranded Mozilla Firefox, renamed from Iceweasel
Google Chrome	Blink	GTK	Closed source		Based on Chromium - Freeware under Google Chrome Terms of Service
iCab	WebKit	Cocoa	Closed source		Versions prior to 4 used custom layout engine
Iceape	Gecko	XUL	Open-source	Discontinued	Rebranded as SeaMonkey
Internet Explorer for Mac	Tasman	Carbon	Closed source	Discontinued	Using Tasman in version 5
Internet Explorer for UNIX	Trident	Motif	Closed source	Discontinued
Kazehakase	Gecko	GTK+	Open-source	Discontinued	Dormant since 2012
Kirix Strata	Gecko	wxWidgets	Closed source
Konqueror	KHTML, WebKit	Qt	Open-source		Default web browser for KDE
LibreWolf	Gecko	XUL	Open-source		Soft-fork of Mozilla Firefox with a focus on privacy and security
Midori	Gecko	GTK	Open-source		Default browser for Xfce
Mosaic	Custom	Motif	Closed source	Discontinued	One of the first web browsers
Mozilla Application Suite	Gecko	XUL	Open-source	Discontinued
Mozilla Firefox	Gecko	XUL	Open-source
NetSurf	NetSurf	GTK, Framebuffer	Open-source		NetSurf is not tied to any particular UI toolkits. Currently GTK and framebuffer front end implementations exist. For RISC OS, Amiga and others.
OmniWeb	WebKit	Cocoa	Closed source	Discontinued	Using WebKit since version 5.5
Opera	Blink	Xlib	Closed source		Opera used its own renderer, Presto, through version 12.XX. Linux versions were suspended when Opera moved to Blink and resumed with version 26.
Otter Browser	WebKit/Blink (engine)	Qt	Open-source		Aimed at replicating the pre-v15 Opera user experience.
Pale Moon	Goanna	XUL	Open-source		Pale Moon is a fork of Firefox with substantial divergence, especially for add-ons and user interface.
Falkon (QupZilla)	Qt WebEngine	Qt	Open-source
Rekonq	WebKit	Qt	Open-source	Discontinued
Roccat Browser	WebKit	Cocoa	Closed source
Safari	WebKit	Cocoa	Closed source
SeaMonkey	Gecko	XUL	Open-source		Community-developed version of now abandoned Mozilla Application Suite codebase
Shiira	WebKit	Cocoa	Open-source	Discontinued	For Mac OS X only
SRWare Iron	Blink	GTK	Closed-source		Based on Chromium, removes information transfer to third parties such as Google by default. Has had its source code available at various points in development but currently has a proprietary codebase
Surf	WebKitGTK	keyboard-driven	Open-source		Minimalist web browser.
Swiftfox	Gecko	XUL	Closed source	Discontinued	Proprietary optimised build of Mozilla Firefox
Swiftweasel	Gecko	XUL	Open-source	Discontinued	Optimised build of Mozilla Firefox
TenFourFox	Gecko	XUL	Open-source	Discontinued	PowerPC build of Firefox for Mac OS X
tkWWW	Custom	Tcl	Open-source	Discontinued
Uzbl	WebKit	GTK+	Open-source	Discontinued	Follows the Unix philosophy
GNOME Web	WebKit	GTK	Open-source		Formerly called Epiphany; Versions prior to 2.27.0 were built upon Gecko
Waterfox	Gecko	XUL	Open-source		Firefox fork
xombrero	WebKit	GTK+	Open-source	Discontinued	Renamed from xxxterm; originated from OpenBSD community
Web browser	Layout engine	UI toolkit	Source model	Status	Notes

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References

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/

Web browsers

Features
standards
protocols

Features	Bookmarks Extensions Privacy mode
Web standards	HTML v5 CSS DOM JavaScript WebAssembly Web storage IndexedDB WebGL WebGPU
Protocols	HTTP Encryption Cookies third-party OCSP WebRTC WebSocket

Active

Blink-based

Proprietary	Google Chrome Arc Avast Coc Coc Comodo Epic Maxthon Microsoft Edge Opera (Mobile) Puffin QQ Samsung Silk Sleipnir SRWare UC Vivaldi Whale Yandex
FOSS	Chromium Brave Dooble Falkon Otter Supermium ungoogled

Gecko-based

Firefox
Floorp
GNU IceCat
LibreWolf
Midori
SlimBrowser
Tor
Zen
Gecko forks
- Basilisk
- K-Meleon
- Pale Moon
- SeaMonkey
- Waterfox

WebKit-based

Multi-engine

Other

Discontinued

Blink-based	Beaker Citrio Flock Redcore Rockmelt SalamWeb Sputnik Torch
Gecko-based	Beonex Camino Classilla Conkeror Firefox Lite Galeon Ghostzilla IceDragon Kazehakase Kylo Lotus MicroB Minimo Mozilla suite PirateBrowser Pogo Strata Swiftfox Swiftweasel TenFourFox Timberwolf xB
MSHTML-based	Internet Explorer AOL Deepnet GreenBrowser MediaBrowser NeoPlanet NetCaptor SpaceTime ZAC
WebKit-based	Arora BOLT Dolphin Fluid Google TV Iris Mercury Nokia Symbian OmniWeb Opera Coast Origyn QtWeb Shiira Steel surf Uzbl WebPositive xombrero
Other	abaco Amaya Arachne Arena Blazer Cake Charon CM Deepfish Dillo Edge Legacy ELinks Gazelle HotJava IBM Home Page Reader IBM WebExplorer IBrowse Internet Explorer for Mac KidZui Line Mode Mosaic MSN TV NetPositive Netscape Skweezer Skyfire ThunderHawk Vision WinWAP WorldWideWeb

v t e Internet suites
Current	AOL Desktop Arachne Gnuzilla MSN Explorer ObjectView Otter SeaMonkey Torch
Discontinued	AOL OpenRide Beonex Communicator Cyberdog Cyberjack Emissary Internet Explorer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Minuet Mozilla Netscape 5 Communicator Opera version 12.18 and earlier Turnpike Classilla
Related technologies	HyperCard Gopher Email Elm Viewdata Teletext Videotex X.25 Aliweb ASCII HyperText Markup Language HyTelnet Libwww Virtual Reality Markup Language File Transfer Protocol Telnet NLS NCSA Telnet UUCP Usenet ARPANET BITNET Prodigy CompuServe 3D Markup Language for Web
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Timeline of web browsers

General
Comparison lightweight History List for Unix Usage share

1990s

1990	WorldWideWeb (Nexus)
1991	Line Mode Browser libwww
1992	Erwise MacWWW (Samba) MidasWWW tkWWW ViolaWWW
1993	AMosaic Arena Cello Emacs/W3 Lynx 2 NCSA Mosaic VMS Mosaic
1994	AirMosaic Internet in a Box ANT Fresco Argo IBM WebExplorer SlipKnot Minuet Navipress Mosaic/Mosaic Netscape/Netscape Navigator Spyglass Mosaic TCP/Connect II
1995	Agora ALynx AMSD Ariadna Cyberjack eWorld Web Browser Grail Internet Explorer 1 Internet Explorer 2 Netscape Navigator 2 NetShark OmniWeb HotJava UdiWWW WebShark w3m
1996	Cyberdog Arachne AWeb IBrowse Amaya Internet Explorer 3 Netscape Navigator 3 Opera 2 Oracle PowerBrowser tcpCONNECT4 Voyager
1997	Netscape Communicator Internet Explorer 4 Opera 2.1
1998	NeoPlanet Mozilla Application Suite Opera 3–3.21
1999	iCab Internet Explorer 5 OmniWeb 3 Opera 3.5–3.62

2000s

2000	Beonex Communicator Galeon K-Meleon Konqueror MediaBrowser Netscape 6 Opera 4–4.02
2001	iCab 2.5 Internet Explorer 6 OmniWeb 4 Opera 5–5.12
2002	Camino Epiphany Netscape 7 Opera 6–6.1
2003	GreenBrowser Maxthon Opera 7–7.3 Safari SlimBrowser
2004	Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox Opera 7.5–7.55
2005	AOL Explorer Deepnet Explorer Firefox 1.5 Netscape Browser Opera 8–8.54 Safari 2
2006	Firefox 2 Internet Explorer 7 Opera 9–9.27
2007	Maxthon 2 Opera 9.5–9.64 Safari 3 SeaMonkey 1.1
2008	Chrome Firefox 3 Netscape Navigator 9 NetSurf 1.2
2009	Chrome 2–3 Firefox 3.5 Internet Explorer 8 Opera 10–10.63 Pale Moon Safari 4 SeaMonkey 2.0

2010s

2010	Chrome 4–8 Firefox 3.6 Lunascape 6.0.1 Maxthon 3 NetSurf 2.5 Opera 11–11.64 Safari 5
2011	Chrome 9–16 Firefox 4–9 Internet Explorer 9 Lunascape 6.5 Opera 12–12.17 SeaMonkey 2.1–2.4 Waterfox
2012	Chrome 17–23 Firefox 10–17 Internet Explorer 10 Lunascape 6.7 Maxthon 3.4 NetSurf 2.9 Safari 6 Yandex Browser
2013	Chrome 24–31 Firefox 18–26 Internet Explorer 11 Opera 15–18 Safari 7 SeaMonkey 2.15–2.22
2014	Chrome 32–39 Firefox 27–34 Lunascape 6.9 NetSurf 3.1 Opera 19–26 Safari 8 SeaMonkey 2.23–2.31
2015	Chrome 40–47 Firefox 35–43 Lunascape 6.10–6.12 Microsoft Edge 20, 25 Opera 27–34 Safari 9 SeaMonkey 2.32–2.39 Vivaldi Technical Preview 1–Beta 2
2016	Brave 0.7–0.12 Chrome 48–55 Firefox 44–50 Lunascape 6.13–6.15 Microsoft Edge 38 Opera 35–42 Safari 10 Vivaldi Beta 3–1.6 Yandex 15.12–16.9
2017	Brave 0.13–0.19 Chrome 56–63 Firefox 51–57 Microsoft Edge 40, 41 Opera 43–49 Safari 11 SeaMonkey 2.46–2.49 Vivaldi 1.7–1.13
2018	Basilisk Brave 0.20–0.60 Chrome 64–71 Firefox 58–64 Microsoft Edge 42–44 Opera 50–57 Safari 12 Vivaldi 1.14–2.2 Waterfox 56.0–56.2 Yandex 17.9–18.10
2019	Brave 0.61–1.1 Chrome 72–79 Firefox 65–71 Microsoft Edge 44 Opera 58–65 Safari 13 Vivaldi 2.3–2.10 Waterfox 60.1–68.0a2 Whale 1.4–1.5 Yandex 18.11–19.12

2020s

2020	Brave 1.2–1.18 Chrome 80–87 Firefox 72–84 Microsoft Edge 79–87 Opera 66–73 SeaMonkey 2.53 Vivaldi 2.11–3.5 Safari 14
2021	Brave 1.19–1.33 Chrome 88–96 Firefox 85–95 Microsoft Edge 88–96 Opera 74–82 SeaMonkey 2.53.10.2 Vivaldi 3.6–5.0 Yandex 20.11.5–21.3 Safari 15
2022	Arc 0.46–0.81 Brave 1.34–1.46 Chrome 97–108 Firefox 96–108 Microsoft Edge 97–108 Opera 83–94 Vivaldi 5.1–5.6 Yandex 22.1–22.11 Safari 16
2023	Arc 0.85–1.21 Brave 1.47–1.61 Chrome 109–120 Firefox 109–121 Microsoft Edge 109–120 Opera 95–106 Vivaldi 5.7–6.5 Yandex 23.1–23.11 Safari 17
2024	Arc 1.25– Brave 1.62– Chrome 121– Firefox 122– Microsoft Edge 121– Opera 107– Vivaldi 6.6– Yandex 24.1– Safari 18

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