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 work for Android.
Graphical
Colored items in this table are discontinued.
Web browser | Layout engine | UI toolkit | Notes |
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Abaco | Custom | rio | For Plan 9 |
Amaya | Custom | wxWidgets | Discontinued; Also a web page composer tool (HTML editor) |
Arena | Custom | Xlib | Discontinued testbed for W3C |
Arora | WebKit | Qt | FOSS |
Beonex Communicator | Gecko | GTK+ | Discontinued; a separate branch of the Mozilla Application Suite |
Camino | Gecko | Cocoa | Discontinued; Formerly called Chimera; Requires Mac OS X |
Conkeror | Gecko | XUL | FOSS |
Chromium | Blink | GTK+ | Close affinity with Google Chrome |
Dillo | Dillo | FLTK | Versions prior to 2.0 were built upon GTK+. |
Dooble | WebKit | Qt | BSD License |
Fifth | WebKit | FLTK | Aimed at replicating the pre-v15 Opera user experience. |
Flock | Gecko | XUL | Discontinued; specialised version of Mozilla Firefox |
Galeon | Gecko | GTK+ | Discontinued |
GNU IceCat | Gecko | XUL | Rebranded Mozilla Firefox, renamed from Iceweasel |
Google Chrome | Blink | GTK+ | Based on Chromium - Freeware under Google Chrome Terms of Service |
iCab | WebKit | Cocoa | Proprietary; versions prior to 4 used custom layout engine |
Iceape | Gecko | XUL | Discontinued; Rebranded SeaMonkey |
Internet Explorer for Mac | Tasman | Carbon | Discontinued; using Tasman in version 5 |
Internet Explorer for UNIX | Trident | Motif | Discontinued |
SRWare Iron | Blink | GTK+ | Based on Chromium; removes information transfer to third parties such as Google by default |
Kazehakase | Gecko | GTK+ | Dormant since 2012; FOSS |
Kirix Strata | Gecko | wxWidgets | Proprietary |
Konqueror | KHTML, WebKit | Qt | Default web browser for KDE |
Midori | WebKit | GTK+ | Default browser for Xfce |
Mosaic | Custom | Motif | Discontinued; one of the first web browsers |
Mozilla Application Suite | Gecko | XUL | Discontinued |
Mozilla Firefox | Gecko | XUL | FOSS, Includes HTML5 support, Firefox Sync, add-ons support and tabbed browsing. |
NetSurf | NetSurf | GTK+, Framebuffer | 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 | Proprietary; using WebKit since version 5.5 |
Opera | Blink | Xlib | 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 | WebKit | Qt | Aimed at replicating the pre-v15 Opera user experience. |
Pale Moon | Goanna | XUL | Lightweight fork of Firefox and still uses the old (Firefox 28) user interface. |
QupZilla | QtWebEngine | Qt | FOSS |
Rekonq | WebKit | Qt | FOSS |
Roccat Browser | WebKit | Cocoa | Proprietary |
Safari | WebKit | Cocoa | Proprietary |
SeaMonkey | Gecko | XUL | Community-developed version of now abandoned Mozilla Application Suite codebase |
Shiira | WebKit | Cocoa | Discontinued; for Mac OS X only |
Surf | WebKitGTK+ | keyboard-driven | FOSS; minimalist web browser. |
Swiftfox | Gecko | XUL | Proprietary; optimised build of Mozilla Firefox |
Swiftweasel | Gecko | XUL | Discontinued; optimised build of Mozilla Firefox |
TenFourFox | Gecko | XUL | PowerPC build of Firefox for Mac OS X |
tkWWW | Custom | Tcl | Discontinued; FOSS |
Uzbl | WebKit | GTK+ | FOSS; follows the Unix philosophy |
Web (formerly Epiphany) | WebKit | GTK+ | Versions prior to 2.27.0 were built upon Gecko |
xombrero | WebKit | GTK+ | Renamed from xxxterm; FOSS; originated from OpenBSD community |
Web browser | Layout engine | UI toolkit | Notes |
Text-based
See also
References
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/
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