Browser editions overview
The browser editions overview lists companies that produce web browsers, the different versions of these browsers, supported operating systems, and download links for each.
Most companies that work on web browsers, be it Mozilla with Firefox or Google with Chrome, offer multiple editions of said browser to the community.
Most of the time, a stable version is offered and then one or multiple beta or development versions.
The main idea behind the current practice is to have new versions out sooner to make them available to a larger group of testers before a version lands on the stable channel of the browser.
This overview looks at popular browsers, the browser editions that are provided by companies, and information on how to download and update those versions.
Browser editions
The following table lists popular web browsers, available editions, and supported desktop and mobile operating systems.
Links are provided if they are available. In the case of Apple Safari, no links are provided for the stable version as it is integrated in Mac OS X and not available for download.
For Microsoft Edge, only VM images are linked as the browser is only available for Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile, and there integrated and not available as a separate download.
If you find multiple entries for a browser or company, those are listed in order from "most stable" to "most cutting edge" or "least cutting edge" to "least stable".
Overview of browser editions
| Company | Browser | Edition | Desktop OS | Mobile OS | |
| 8pecxstudios | Cyberfox | Stable | Windows, Linux | ||
| 8pecxstudios | Cyberfox | Beta | Windows | ||
| Apple | Safari | Stable | Mac (built in) | iOS | |
| Apple | Safari | Developers | Mac | iOS | |
| Avant Force | Avant Browser | Â Stable | Windows | ||
| Brave | Brave | Developer | Windows, Mac, Linux | ||
| Flashpeak Inc | SlimBrowser | Stable | Windows | ||
| Flashpeak Inc | Slimjet Browser | Stable | Windows, Linux | ||
| Chromium | Windows, Mac, Linux | Android | |||
| Chrome | Stable | Windows, Mac, Linux | Android, iOS | ||
| Chrome | Beta | Windows, Mac, Linux | Android, iOS | ||
| Chrome | Developer | Windows, Mac, Linux | Android | ||
| Chrome | Canary | Windows, Mac | |||
| Light | Light | Stable | Windows, Mac, Linux | ||
| Lunascape | Lunascape | Â Stable | Windows, Mac | Android, iOS | |
| Maxthon | Maxthon | Stable | Windows, Mac, Linux | Android, iOS, Windows Phone | |
| Microsoft | Edge | Stable | Windows 10 (VM) | Windows 10 Mobile | |
| Microsoft | Edge | Preview | Windows 10 (VM) | Windows 10 Mobile | |
| Moonchild Productions | Pale Moon | Stable | Windows, Linux | Android | |
| Moonchild Productions | Pale Moon | WiP | Windows, Linux | ||
| Mozilla | Firefox | Stable | Windows, Mac, Linux | Android, iOS | |
| Mozilla | Firefox | Beta | Windows, Mac, Linux | Android, iOS | |
| Mozilla | Firefox | Developer | Windows, Mac, Linux | Android | |
| Mozilla | Firefox | Nightly | Windows, Mac, Linux | Android | |
| Mozilla | SeaMonkey | Stable | Windows, Mac, Linux | ||
| Opera | Opera | Stable | Windows, Mac, Linux | Android | |
| Opera | Opera | Beta | Windows, Mac, Linux | Android | |
| Opera | Opera | Developer | Windows, Mac, Linux | ||
| Opera | Opera Mini | Stable | Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Basic phones | ||
| Opera | Opera Mini | Beta | Android | ||
| Opera | Opera Coast | iOS | |||
| Vivaldi | Vivaldi | Stable | Windows, Mac, Linux | ||
| Vivaldi | Vivaldi | Snapshots | Windows, Mac, Linux | ||
| Waterfox | Waterfox | Â Stable | Windows, Mac |
As you can see from the table above, most companies produce multiple versions of their web browsers and make them available publicly.
Most browsers are available for download and for multiple operating systems. The notable exceptions are Apple's Safari, which is integrated in Mac OS X and iOS, and Microsoft Edge, which is integrated in Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile only.
Safari is available as a preview version for Mac OS X while Edge can be downloaded as a VM image for use on non-Windows 10 systems.
You can use the list of browsers and editions as reference to quickly download the most recent versions.
Now You: Did we miss a company or browser edition? Let us know in the comments and we will add the missing information to the list.
a bit late for this thread. anyway, does anybody have experience of GNOMEweb( epiphany )? pluses, minuses?
Tom posted the list from Wikipedia, that’s what I was going to do. I simply typed in Firefox’s address bar “w list of web browsers” which will search Wikipedia for the phrase “list of web browsers”. I previously set up the “w” to execute a Wikipedia search in Firefox (or maybe that’s the default): double-click in the Keyword column next to “Wikipedia” at about:preferences#search , and type “w” without quotes.
Dave posted Midori. I was going to suggest that one. As well as “Internet-frickin-Explorer”!!
Here’s one more I got: http://superbird-browser.com/ . It seems to be no longer updated.
This looks like a fun game, but I met my comment quota runs out mid-play.
Midori
IceCat
Lynx
Comodo Dragon
Comodo IceDragon
Internet-frickin-Explorer
SRWare Iron
That-one-man-project-to-recreate-old-Opera-that-you-sometimes-write-about
Dolphin
Boat Browser
UC Browser
Surfy
…I’m bored now. I might have some water.
In Poland and Germany Iron http://www.srware.net/ is quite popular.
What about Tor browser?
my best reference is this wikipedia’s ‘genealogical tree’:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers#/media/File:Timeline_of_web_browsers.svg
from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers
I use (beside the ‘holy trinity’ — Firefox, Chrome, Edge) and recommend: PaleMoon, SlimJet, SlimBrowser, Waterfox
These are some more than can be included
Aviator / Baidu Spark / Citrio / Comodo Dragon & IceDragon / Epic Browser / PirateSnoop / SRWare Iron
The Tor browser is worth including.
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
You could also add:
Gecko-based:
– K-Meleon
– Conkeror
QtWebKit/QtWebEngine-based:
– Otter
– Qupzilla
– Fifth
Dual-engines:
– Sleipnir (Trident/Chromium)
– Polarity (Trident/Chromium)
This reminds me of elementary school where the teacher would write down a topic on the backboard and we had to suggest related words to add to it. todays topic “browser editions” .
Qupzilla is still alive, eventhough its recent implementation of qtwebengine didn’t go too well.
If you mention Light you could also mention pcxFirefox.
Dolphin, Maxthon, Avant
My new favourite browsers are CyberFox (on Windows & Linux) and Slimjet (Chrome-based). CyberFox comes with the extension which restores the older User Interface and seems to perform better than Firefox and Slimjet has revised the UI and makes it more user friendly IMHO and is compatible with Google’s extensions.
Have you taken a look at Firefox Light, it is available here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lightfirefox/
Just to throw a couple of corrections out there, Cyberfox is also avaible for Linux (https://8pecxstudios.com/Forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1374&start=30) and Pale Moon is released by Moonchild Productions not Pale Moon itself (http://www.moonchildproductions.info/palemoon.shtml).
Unfortunately, Cyberfox
is NOT available for Linux 32bit users,
(only 64 bit Linux users…too bad!).
I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32 bits…
Pale Moon browser runs on BOTH, 32 and 64 bit Linux
…and accepts most Firefox addons.
Well I don’t run 32 bit web browsers anymore so a lack of a 32 bit version does not affect me much. Also with Pale Moon, I actually use some extensions that are only available to Pale Moon and are not available in Firefox which makes it hard for me to use Firefox with any regularity.
Brave browser is under attack from US newspaper publishers, who call what the browser does “illegal”:
“U.S. newspapers are up in arms about Brave Software, which is launching a new ad blocking browser that will replace many of the ads that appear on a publisher’s site with ads picked by Brave itself.
A group of the biggest newspaper publishers, including the Washington Post and the New York Times, sent a cease and desist letter to Brave, calling its operations “illegal.—
http://www.marketplace.org/2016/04/08/world/brave-new-browser-sets-newspaper-publishers-edge
In the interest of completeness, Brave’s response:
https://www.brave.com/blogpost_4.html
What about waterfox (https://www.waterfoxproject.org/)?
Though you were not completely wrong. Due to license restrictions Chrome is not included in Linux repositories, but it is available as a binary for download.
And as an additional information: Chrome, Opera and Vivaldi are all based on Chromium, which is Google’s open source code base.
Jasper
Martin:
Here are three browsers I have tested in the past year or so that might be worth checking out…
1. Cyberfox (https://cyberfox.8pecxstudios.com/), another branch of Firefox
2. SlimBrowser (http://www.slimbrowser.net/en/), an IE-based browser
3. Lunascape (http://www.lunascape.tv/), a browser with 3 separate rendering engines (Trident, Gecko, WebKit) that the user can switch between as needed.
Firefox for iOS Beta:
https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/releases
Firefox Developer Edition for Desktop is the same release channel as Firefox Aurora for Android:
https://www.mozilla.org/de/firefox/channel/#developer
Google Chrome is listed as “Windows, Mac, Linux”, but AFAIK Chrome is actually not available for Linux.
The only Google browser for Linux is Chromium (which does not have Chrome’s integrated Flash player).
Bob, so what about this one here then? https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/
Or this one? https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/beta.html
Is that Chromium or Chrome?
Martin, Very sorry, I was wrong. (My info was six years old!) My apologies for wasting your time, Bob.
Martin,
Could you do a review of Slimjet? It looks like one of the best (if not THE best) of the “chrome clones” browsers.
Yes, Brave. Updated to version 0.9 today. I use it as my main browser, but it won’t work on some websites yet.
Then there is K-Meleon, but I haven’t used that for about a year.
Brave browser maybe?
In fact, there are many many more browsers not listed here.
Right, there are hundreds of web browsers. If you think browsers are missing let me know and I’ll add them.