Browsers Category

Opera ★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

Opera is a cross platform browser. The Opera browser is free but proprietary software.

Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer is a Windows only web browser (previous Mac versions have been discontinued). Version 6 is the most widely used browser on the web. Version 7 can be customised through add-ons to increase functionality for developers.

Epiphany

Epiphany is the web browser for the GNOME desktop. It is based on the Gecko layout engine, and is released under a free and open source license.

Epiphany is a fork of the Galen browser.

Flock

Flock describes itself as the “Social Web browser”. Flock is based on Firefox, is cross platform and is released under free and open source licenses.

Camino

Camino is a Mac OS X specific browser using the Gecko layout engine. It is released under free and open source licenses. The tag line says “Mozilla power, Mac style”. Camino uses native Mac OS X widgets not the generic Firefox cross platform interface.

Seamonkey

Seamonkey is based on the Mozilla Application Suite, and includes a browser, email client, and html editor.

Seamonkey is a cross platform browser and released under free and open source licenses. It is customisable through extensions.

Mozilla Firefox

Cross platform graphical browser from the Mozilla Corporation, released under a Free and Open Source (FOSS) license. Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine.

Firefox is highly customisable through extensions and themes, with numerous. Assistance for web developers is provided through the inbuilt DOM inspector and javascript console. Numerous developer extensions also exist.

Previously known as Phoenix and Firebird.