Software:Browsers

TomTom

Was going to get the ball rolling on this guide by starting on web browsers.
If can peole can stick to the format of:

Browser Name:
Platform:
Description:
Tips:

This will make it easier to compile the list.
This is to include all browsers people can think off, regardless of the os.

Thank you.

Can this be made a sticky.

L1011

Opera
All OS'es that have ever had a decent number of users
Opera is the last major commercial browser, and it supports Windows, MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD, OS/2, BeOS and EPOC/Symbian; although some are not on sale anymore. Has a very small footprint, newer versions have an e-mail client. Fully W3C standards compliant at version 7.

Internet Explorer
Windows, MacOS and Solaris
Internet Explorer is the lumbering beast of a browser 99% of us use. Its not going to be developed any more apparently. Yay!. Although thats not very likely to be true, even though MS said it.
Tips: Replace as soon as you can

Netscape
Windows, MacOS, Linux
No longer in development, the Netscape browser is still some peoples browser of choice. Its also a massive lumbering beast, and you must give AOL your e-mail adress to use the damn thing. However, its open-source version, Mozilla is far less nosy.

Mozilla
Every platform imaginable
Running on every OS you care to name that has more than 100 developers, Mozilla is based on the source code opened by Netscape in 1998. In reality, this source makes the Gecko rendering engine used in other browsers, but there is Mozilla or Mozilla Communicator which has most of the stuff Netscape has in it

Firebird/Galeon/K-Melon/Casino
Linux/BeOS/Windows/MacOS/Solaris for Firebird, Linux for Galeon and K-Melon, MacOS for Casino.
A variaty of Gecko engined browsers, nearly all cut-down in size. Generally smaller and faster than Mozilla Communicator or Netscape itself

Konqueror/Safari/ABrowse/yT WebCORE
In order: Linux/MacOS/AtheOS/BeOS
Based on the KHTML engine from KDE, these browsers are in general small and lightweight.

NetPositive
BeOS
My favorite browser just down to my OS choice, this currently uses its own renderer but soon is being rebuilt to use KHTML in the guise of the yT WebCORE renderer. Its 1.4MB, it has SSL support, but its only HTML4 level, and theres no CSS or JavaScript. I just love it though, because its damn fast!

LYNX/Links
Two command line browsers ported to every OS imaginable. Lynx has SSL support and some nice features, but Links can do tables and even frames. Neither support images. Both work best on UNIX

Mosaic
The original webbrowser, NSCA/Spyglass Mosaic was last updated in 1996. Available for Windows/MacOS and X11 Unix. Now too obsolete for use really...

Wrote all those myself, but a complete list of browsers up until 2000 is available here http://www.browserlist.browser.org/

If I remember anymore that aren't just clones/based on/use the engine of the above I'll add them

El_MUERkO

/\ MYOB's got all of them I can think of.

http://www.ghostzilla.com/ is handy for browsing in work, not that I'd use such a thing :cool:

L1011

forgot one thing - MSHTML, the engine at the heart of Internet Explorer and many other browsers IS Spyglass Mosaic, pure and simple. Thats why it was pretty easy for Microsoft to "port" IE to the Mac and Solaris, because Mosaic already ran on those platforms. Just look at the about: box.

MS "bought" Mosiac by agreeing a $1 royalty for every copy sold. IE is free.... Spyglass got nothing and the worlds biggest browser / biggest security hole was made...