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Web Browsers

Web browsers are those useful little programs which let you use html to navigate around the world wide web.
Some examples include:

  1. lynx - the original text browser
  2. links - the alternate text browser
  3. w3m - another text browser
  4. WannaBe - a text only browser for the mac
  5. Internet explorer - The microsoft browser, which is at least 18 months behind the standards, forcing website designers to jump through hoops to do things which are easy in more standard compliant browsers
  6. Netscape - The original alternative to internet explorer
  7. Opera - a commercial cross-platform browser
  8. Amaya - the w3c's own browser and editor
  9. Arena - an earlier W3c browser, now abandoned in favour of Amaya
  10. Arachne - a lightweight dos/posix based full screen graphical browser
  11. Mozilla - The open source version of netscape, including the gecko renderer
  12. Firebird (was Phoenix) - a deliberately cross platform variant of mozilla
  13. Konqueror - the KDE browser
  14. Safari - apple's Konqueror derived browser
  15. Galeon - a simple standards compliant browser for the Gnome using the Gecko renderer
  16. Avant Browser - an internet explorer based browser
  17. Off By One - a lightweight browser for windows which can be packaged onto cd's
  18. chimera / camino a mozilla derived browser for OS X
  19. epiphany a browser for Gnome based upon the Gecko renderer
  20. Dillo - a very lightweight browser for linux
  21. Emacs W3 - a browser written entirely in emacs lisp
  22. NeoPlanet - a windows based browser with availability problems

Some web browsers also include email clients.

There are a set of services that can sit between your browser and the internet, which include Internet filtering software, cookie blockers, add blockers, and firewalls.

last modified 00:22 2005/04/15