Comparison of web browsers
A web browser is an application that allows you to access and view websites and other content on the internet. Different browsers have their own strengths, focusing on speed, privacy, or customizability, and can be used on various devices, including desktops, laptops, and mobile phones.
This is a comparison of both historical and current web browsers based on developer, engine, platform, releases, license, and cost.
General information
Basic general information about the browsers. Browsers listed on a light purple background are discontinued. Platforms with a yellow background have limited support.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 but does not include the growing appliance segment.
Both the web browser and OS means most recent version, example: Windows 11 with Internet Explorer 11.
Browser features
Information about what common browser features are implemented natively.| Browser | Bookmark management | Download management | Password managing | History | Open tabs from previous sessions | Form managing | Spell checking | Search engine toolbar | Per-site security configuration | Privacy mode | Auto-updater |
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| Browser | Bookmark management | Download management | Password managing | History | Open tabs from previous sessions | Form managing | Spell checking | Search engine toolbar | Per-site security configuration | Privacy mode | Auto-updater |
Accessibility features
Information about what common accessibility features are implemented natively. Browsers that do not support pop-ups have no need for pop-up blocking abilities, so that field is marked as N/A.Accessibility features (continued)
Information about what common accessibility features are implemented natively.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.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.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.Protocol support
Information about what Internet protocols the browsers support. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.More than half of web traffic from Chrome to Google's servers is handled by QUIC protocol, not TCP. Chrome, Opera, and Firefox have support for QUIC, and HTTP/3, while Safari is testing it for a subset of users.
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.Internationalization
Most browsers are available in more than one language.| Browser | Languages | Total |
| Amaya | English, French, Finnish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish, Slovak, Russian, Norwegian, Georgian, Japanese, Hungarian, Dutch, Ukrainian | 18 |
| AOL Explorer | English, French, German | 3 |
| Avast Secure Browser | Arabic, Portuguese, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kanada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese | 48 |
| Basilisk | American English | 1 |
| Camino | Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish | 15 |
| Chrome | Arabic, Portuguese, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kanada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese | 48 |
| Dillo | English, Japanese, Polish, Russian | 4 |
| ELinks | Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Ukrainian | 13 |
| Edge | Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian | 33 |
| Falkon | Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Galician, Ganda, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, N'ko, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek | 35 |
| Firefox | Acholi, Afrikaans, Akan, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Asturian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, Fula, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gaelic, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kashubian, Khmer, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Latvian, Ligurian, Lithuanian, Luganda, Macedonian, Maithili, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Northern Sotho, Norwegian, Occitan, Oriya, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Romansh, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Songhai, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh, Zulu | 91 |
| Flock | Arabic, Chinese, English, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish | 14 |
| Galeon | Amharic, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Finnish, French, Irish, Galician, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Punjabi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Walloon, Chinese | 48 |
| GNOME Web | Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Bengali, Bosnian, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Dzongkha, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Irish, Galician, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Korean, Kurdish, Limburgian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Marathi, Malay, Norwegian, Norwegian, Nepali, Dutch, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkmen, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Walloon, Chinese | 70 |
| iCab | German, English, Japanese, Danish, French, Spanish, Russian, Norwegian, Chinese | 9 |
| Internet Explorer | Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azeri, Bengali ), Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, KiSwahili, Konkani, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Oriya, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sesotho, Setswana, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yoruba, isiXhosa, isiZulu | 95 |
| Internet Explorer for Mac | German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Swedish | 7 |
| K-Meleon | Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian | 6 |
| Konqueror | Afrikaans, Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Bengali, Bosnian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Mongolian, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Punjabi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Tajik, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek | 46 |
| Ladybird | American English | 1 |
| Links | Belarusian, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Upper Sorbian | 32 |
| Lunascape | Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish | 10 |
| Lynx | Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Estonian, English, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese | 21 |
| Maxthon | Arabic, Basque, Bosnian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese | 44 |
| Mosaic | English | 1 |
| Mozilla | Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh | 28 |
| Netscape | Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish | 7 |
| Netscape Browser | English, English | 2 |
| Netscape Navigator | Portuguese, Chinese, Czech, English, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish | 20 |
| Netscape Navigator 9 | English | 1 |
| NetSurf | Dutch, English, French, German | 4 |
| OmniWeb | Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Swedish | 7 |
| Opera | Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Frisian, Georgian, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Montenegrin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Telugu, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Zulu | 47 |
| Pale Moon | Arabic, Bulgarian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, American English, British English, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Icelandic, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Romanian, Russian Argentine Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Serbian, Castilian Spanish, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian | 37 |
| Safari | Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Chinese | 15 |
| SeaMonkey | Belarusian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish | 37 |
| Shiira | Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish | 15 |
| Sleipnir | Chinese, English, Japanese | 3 |
| SRWare Iron | English, German, Russian | 3 |
| surf | Browser lacks user interface elements to be translated; see WebKitGTK+ for status of engine messages' translation. | 0 |
| Torch Browser | English, French, Turkish, Italian, Portuguese, German | 7 |
| WorldWideWeb | English | 1 |
| w3m | English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish | 9 |
| Browser | Languages | Total |