We categorize browsers by their rendering engine. For us as developers it does not matter how a browser handles bookmarks, we care how it renders the webpage and how it executes javascript.

We try to support standard browsers as much as we can. They account for over 98% of the webbrowsers in use today:

Rendering Engine	Browsers	Version
Trident	Internet Explorer	since version 4 (4, 5, 5.5 and 6)
Gecko	Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape ...	since 2003
KHTML / WebCore	Safari, Konqueror	since ?
Presto	Opera	since 7.11 (7, 8)

Trident (MSHTML-Modern)

Microsoft Internet Explorer http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx

Tasman

Internet Explorer for Mac http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/ie/ This is Microsoft's browser for the Macintosh. It was developed independently from the Windows version, so their rendering engines don't work the same. Microsoft droped IE deveplopment for the mac, the last versions are v5.2.3 for OS X and v5.1.7 for OS 8/9. There are still users of this browser, though they should disappear more and more since there are much better browsers for this OS by now. If possible, we make our components compatible with it, but it causes a lot of headache and workarounds for workarounds.

Gecko

These Browsers are all based on the "Gecko" rendering engine.

Gecko is the widely known name, pushed by the Netscape corporation. Other names are Mozilla Layout Engine, NGT, NGLayout, XPFE, XPToolkit and Raptor.

		Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/
		Firefox http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Firefox (Mozilla Firefox, previously Mozilla Firebird, previously Phoenix), the browser component, now available separately, of Mozilla.
		Galeon http://galeon.sourceforge.net/ Galeon is a GNOME Web browser based on Gecko (the mozilla layout engine). It's fast, it has a light interface, and it is fully standards-compliant.
		Netscape http://browser.netscape.com/ Netscape Navigator, Netscape Communicator Netscape is the commercial distribution of Mozilla for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. Its user interface is tuned for end-users rather than developers, and it includes additional features such as AIM and a spell checker. Netscape 8 uses both rendering engines Gecko (Mozilla) and Trident (MSIE).
		K-Meleon http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/ K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser for the win32 (Windows) platform based on the Gecko layout engine.
		Epiphany http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/ Epiphany is the web browser for the GNOME desktop. Its goal is to be simple and easy to use. Epiphany ties together many GNOME components in order to let you focus on the Web content, instead of the browser application. As part of the GNOME project, Epiphany is Free Software.
		Camino previously Chimera http://www.caminobrowser.org/ a Gecko-based browser for Mac OS X.
		Compuserve Gecko since 7.0
		AOL Now uses Gecko

KHTML / WebCore

These Browsers are all based on the "WebCore" rendering engine.

		Safari http://www.apple.com/safari/ a browser based on Konqueror that's designed for fast work under Mac OS X Release History: Mac OS X 10.4 Mac OS X 10.3.9 Mac OS X 10.3.8 Safari 2.0 Safari 1.3 Safari 1.2
		Konqueror http://www.konqueror.org/ Konqueror is an Open Source web browser with HTML 4.01 compliance, supporting Java applets, JavaScript, CSS 1, CSS 2.1, as well as Netscape plugins (for example, Flash or RealVideo plugins). conqueror, konqeror, conqueror, quonqueror, konquerror, conquerror, konqerror, konkeror, konkueror, konkuerror
		Shiira http://hmdt-web.net/shiira/index-e.html Shiira is a web browser written in Cocoa. It uses the KHTML rendering engine provided by Apple's Web Kit. Since this is the same rendering engine used by Safari, HTML content rendered by Shiira will look the same as in Apple's own browser. Release History: Mac OS X 10.4 Mac OS X 10.3.9 Mac OS X 10.3.8 Shiira 1.0 Shiira 0.9.5 Shiira 0.9.4
		OmniWeb http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/

Presto

Opera is the producer of the "Presto" rendering engine. The opera browser is currently the only browser using it. But the rendering engine is also licensed to Adobe, so Adobe and Macromedia products might include it in the future.

Opera http://www.opera.com/

Other Browsers

These browsers aren't used by anyone seriously today. They're outdated or new projects and not suitable to browse the internet.

Netscape Navigator 4 and earlier, OmniWeb 4 and earlier, Internet Explorer 3 and earlier, iCab, Amaya, dillo, IBM Home Page Reader

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