General Information
Basic general information about the browsers: creator, company, license, price, etc.
| Browser | Creator | Cost (USD) | Software license | Current layout engine | Latest release version |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaya | W3C, INRIA | Free | W3C | Amaya | 11.4.4 |
| AOL Explorer | America Online, Inc | Free | Proprietary | Trident | 1.5 |
| Arora | Benjamin C. Meyer | Free | GPL | WebKit | 0.11.0 |
| Avant | Avant Force | Free | Proprietary | Tri-engine (Trident, Gecko, WebKit) | 2012 build 189 |
| Camino | The Camino Project | Free | MPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license | Gecko | 2.1.2 |
| Chromium | Free | BSD | WebKit | 25.0.13162.0 | |
| Dillo | Jorge Arellano Cid, Geerken, Rota, et al. | Free | GPL | Dillo | 3.0.2 |
| DocZilla | CiTEC | Free non-commercial use | Proprietary (browser), MPL/GPL/LGPL (Gecko) | Gecko | ? |
| Dooble | Dooble Team | Free | GPL | WebKit | 1.37 |
| ELinks | Baudis, Fonseca, et al. | Free | GPL | built-in, based on Links | 0.11.7 |
| Web | Marco Pesenti Gritti | Free | GPL | WebKit | ? |
| Flock | Flock Inc | Free | Proprietary (as of 3.0) | WebKit | 3.6.4 |
| Galeon | Marco Pesenti Gritti | Free | GPL | Gecko | ? |
| Google Chrome | Free | Google Chrome Terms of Service (Google Chrome's closed-source features), BSD (Chromium executable) |
WebKit | 23.0.1271.95 | |
| GNU IceCat | GNU | Free | GPL, MPL/LGPL tri-license | Gecko | 14.0 |
| iCab | Alexander Clauss | Free, $20 (Pro) |
Proprietary (browser), LGPL (WebKit) | WebKit (version 4+), iCab (version 1-3) | 5.0.1 |
| Internet Explorer | Microsoft, Spyglass |
Free with legal Windows license | Proprietary | Trident | 10.0.9200.16384 |
| Internet Explorer for Mac (terminated) | Microsoft | Free | Proprietary | Tasman | ? |
| K-Meleon | Dorian, KKO, et al. | Free | GPL | Gecko | 1.5.4 |
| Konqueror | KDE | Free | GPL | KHTML, WebKit (optional, unstable) | ? |
| Links | Patocka, et al. | Free | GPL | built-in | 2.7 |
| Lunascape | Lunascape Corporation | Free | Proprietary (browser), ? | Tri-engine (Trident, Gecko, WebKit) | 6.8.0 |
| Lynx | Montulli, Grobe, Rezac, et al. | Free | GPL | built-in | ? |
| Maxthon | Maxthon International Limited | Free | Proprietary | WebKit, Trident | Maxthon 3 |
| Midori | Christian Dywan, et al. | Free | LGPL | WebKit | ? |
| Mosaic | Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, NCSA | Free non-commercial use | Proprietary | built-in | ? |
| Mozilla | Mozilla Foundation | Free | MPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license | Gecko | ? |
| Mozilla Firefox | Mozilla Foundation | Free | MPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license | Gecko | 17.0 |
| Netscape (v.6-7) | Netscape Communications Corporation, AOL | Free | Proprietary (browser), MPL/GPL/LGPL (Gecko) | Gecko | ? |
| Netscape Browser (v.8) | Mercurial Communications for AOL | Free | Proprietary (browser & Trident), MPL/GPL/LGPL (Gecko) |
Gecko, Trident | ? |
| Netscape Communicator (v.4) | Netscape Communications | Free | Proprietary | Mosaic | ? |
| Netscape Navigator (v.1-4) | Netscape Communications | Free | Proprietary | Mosaic | ? |
| Netscape Navigator 9 | Netscape Communications (division of AOL) |
Free | Proprietary (browser), MPL/GPL/LGPL (Gecko) | Gecko | ? |
| NetSurf | The NetSurf Developers | Free | GPL | NetSurf built-in | ? |
| OmniWeb | The Omni Group | Free | Proprietary (browser), LGPL (WebKit) | WebKit (version 4.5+), OmniWeb (version 1-4) | ? |
| Opera | Opera Software | Free | Proprietary | Presto | ? |
| Opera Mobile | Opera Software | Free | Proprietary | Presto | ? |
| Origyn Web Browser | Sand-labs | Free | BSD | WebKit | ? |
| Safari | Apple Inc. | Free | Proprietary (browser), LGPL (WebKit) | WebKit | ? |
| SeaMonkey | SeaMonkey Council | Free | MPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license | Gecko | ? |
| Shiira | Happy Macintosh Developing Team | Free | BSD | WebKit | ? |
| Sleipnir | Fenrir Inc. | Free | Proprietary (browser & Trident), MPL/GPL/LGPL (Gecko) |
Gecko, Trident | ? |
| SlimBoat | FlashPeak Inc. | Free | Proprietary | Webkit | ? |
| SlimBrowser | FlashPeak Inc. | Free | Proprietary | Trident | ? |
| WorldWideWeb (Later renamed Nexus) | Tim Berners-Lee | Free | Public domain | NeXTSTEP built-in | ? |
| w3m | Akinori Ito | Free | MIT | ? | ? |
| Browser | Creator | Cost (USD) | Software license | Current layout engine | Latest release version |
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