| browsers being supported | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Author | Version | Notes |
| Firefox | Mozilla | 118.x | The browser. |
| Chrome | 117.0.x.x | Based on open-source Chromium browser. Default browser on Android. | |
| Opera | Opera | 102.x | Great commercial browser. Runs on many OSs |
| elinks | P. Baudis | 0.132 | Text-only. Based on Links |
| Iron | SRWare | 115.x | Based on open-source Chromium browser, but without Google connections. |
| links | M. Patocka | 2.26.x | Text-only. Tables and frames! |
| lynx | Gnu | 2.9.0dev.10 | Text-only |
| Pale Moon | Moonchild | 32.4.x.x | lightweight, built on Mozilla |
| Otter Browser | 1.0.81-dev | lightweight QT5 based on webkit, emulates Opera | |
| Vivaldi Browser | Vivaldi | 6.2.x.x | lightweight, all-in-one |
| dillo | dillo guys | 3.0.5 | In C, FLTK2 (higher version than in my distro); minimal (no support for non-Latin alphabets). |
| SeaMonkey | Mozilla | 2.53.17 | All-in-one Internet App |
| NetSurf | 3.10 | minimal interface. claim is small--is not. CSS rendering issues. No update since 2020 | |
| Konqueror | KDE | 23.08.1 | Browser/file manager. No means of individual installation. (Linux Mint version "About" says ©2016) |
| Gnome Web | Gnome | 42 | was Galeon, aka Epiphany. runs in flatpak For use only within the Gnome desktop environment. |
| browsers on hold | |||
| w3m | A. Ito | 0.5.3 | Text-only (does tables!). No change since 2011. |
| Arora | Benjamin C Meyer | 0.11.0 | Lightweight, Qt and WebKit based. No change in years. |
| Amaya | W3C | 11.4.4 | Editor, Web standards test. No change since 2012. |
| browsers no longer supported | |||
| Galeon | Gnome | 2.0.2 | Requires Mozilla install--no change since 2006. See Gnome Web. |
| Skipstone | Muhri | 1.0.1 | GTK+ front end for Mozilla--last news 2008 |
| BrowseX | BrowseX | 2.0.0 | In Tcl/Tk. Not so minimal. Sourceforge site has lost all its files; main web site down. |
| Kylie | U. Eriksson | 0.0.7 | Frames & tables. segfaults immediately. no change since ‘02 |
| Arachne | Arachne Labs | 1.66b | Alpha. Lots of dependencies not in Linux dist. No change since ‘00 |
| ICEBrowser | ICESoft | 6.1.3 | Java SDK. Many plugins. Cool Web Start Demo. Withdrew from market 2009 |
| Navigator 9 | Netscape | 9.0.0.6 | AOL announced Netscape is discontinued. |
| XBrowser | A. Arvanes | 4.3 | Java. Slow and buggy. No change since ‘01. Site gone. |
| Quasar | O. K. Espinosa | 0.1 | Uses Gtk and w3c-www libs. Very alpha. No change since ‘01. |
| wApua | A. Beckert | 0.05dev | WML browser in Perl/Tk. No update since ‘00 |
| wb0 | K. Kulhavy | 000324 | Front end for links. No update since ‘00, site gone |
| Armadillo | ? | 0.3.10 | GTK+. Was gzilla. No update since ‘99. Web page gone. |
| mMosaic | ? | 3.7.2 | Multicast Mosaic, derived from NCSA Mosaic. no change since ‘00 |
| Communicator | Netscape | 4.79 | once the king |
| HotJava | Sun | 3.0 | Java. |
| Scate | Apostol1 | Implementation of ICEBrowser. Web page is gone. | |
| Arena | W3C | beta-3b | Precursor to Amaya. |
| Grail | CNRI | 0.6 | Tcl/Tk. Written in Python |
| Mosaic | NCSA | 2.6 | The first big graphical web browser |
| Plume | ? | ? | Tcl/Tk—now maybe called SurfIt! |
| zen | nocrew.web | 0.2.3 | Replaceable interface. GPL. web site gone ‘15. |
| under Wine | |||
| Internet Explorer | Microsoft | 6 | Using Crossover |
Also see
Helge Kreutzmann’s list of
WWW-Browsers for Linux