Galeon is a discontinued Gecko-based web browser that was created by Marco Pesenti Gritti with the goal of delivering a consistent browsing experience to GNOME desktop environment. It gained some popularity in the early 2000s due to its speed,flexibility in configuration and features.
Konqueror is a free and open-source web browser and file manager that provides web access and file-viewer functionality for file systems. It forms a core part of the KDE Software Compilation. Developed by volunteers,Konqueror can run on most Unix-like operating systems. The KDE community licenses and distributes Konqueror under GNU GPL-2.0-or-later.
Xfce or XFCE is a free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.
In computing,cross-platform software is computer software that is designed to work in several computing platforms. Some cross-platform software requires a separate build for each platform,but some can be directly run on any platform without special preparation,being written in an interpreted language or compiled to portable bytecode for which the interpreters or run-time packages are common or standard components of all supported platforms.
Mozilla Firefox,or simply Firefox,is a free and open source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary,the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages,which implements current and anticipated web standards. Firefox is available for Windows 10 and later versions of Windows,macOS,and Linux. Its unofficial ports are available for various Unix and Unix-like operating systems,including FreeBSD,OpenBSD,NetBSD,and other operating systems,such as reactOS. Firefox is also available for Android and iOS. However,as with all other iOS web browsers,the iOS version uses the WebKit layout engine instead of Gecko due to platform requirements. An optimized version is also available on the Amazon Fire TV as one of the two main browsers available with Amazon's Silk Browser.
GNOME Web,called Epiphany until 2012 and still known by that code name,is a free and open-source web browser based on the GTK port of Apple's WebKit rendering engine,called WebKitGTK. It is developed by the GNOME project for Unix-like systems. It is the default and official web browser of GNOME,and part of the GNOME Core Applications.
The Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) is an Internet protocol used for obtaining the revocation status of an X.509 digital certificate. It is described in RFC 6960 and is on the Internet standards track. It was created as an alternative to certificate revocation lists (CRL),specifically addressing certain problems associated with using CRLs in a public key infrastructure (PKI). Messages communicated via OCSP are encoded in ASN.1 and are usually communicated over HTTP. The "request/response" nature of these messages leads to OCSP servers being termed OCSP responders.
This is a comparison of both historical and current web browsers based on developer,engine,platform(s),releases,license,and cost.
Mozilla Firefox 4 is a version of the Firefox web browser,released on March 22,2011. The first beta was made available on July 6,2010;Release Candidate 2 was released on March 18,2011. It was codenamed Tumucumaque,and was Firefox's last large release cycle. The Mozilla team planned smaller and quicker releases following other browser vendors. The primary goals for this version included improvements in performance,standards support,and user interface.
Opera is a multi-platform web browser developed by its namesake company Opera. The current edition of the browser is based on Chromium. Opera is available on Windows,macOS,Linux,Android,and iOS. Two mobile versions are still active,called Opera Mobile and Opera Mini. Opera also has a news aggregator app called Opera News with Aria,an AI-based search engine.
Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google. It was first released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows,built with free software components from Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. Versions were later released for Linux,macOS,iOS,iPadOS,and also for Android,where it is the default browser. The browser is also the main component of ChromeOS,where it serves as the platform for web applications.
Chromium is a free and open-source web browser project,primarily developed and maintained by Google. It is a widely-used codebase,providing the vast majority of code for Google Chrome and many other browsers,including Microsoft Edge,Samsung Internet,and Opera. The code is also used by several app frameworks.
Peppermint OS is a Linux distribution based on Debian and Devuan Stable,and formerly based on Ubuntu. It uses the Xfce desktop environment. It aims to provide a familiar environment for newcomers to Linux,which requires relatively low hardware resources to run.
Sublime Text is a text and source code editor featuring a minimal interface,syntax highlighting and code folding with native support for numerous programming and markup languages,search and replace with support for regular expressions,an integrated terminal/console window,and customizable themes. Available for Windows,macOS,and Linux,its functionality can be expanded with plugins written in Python. Community-contributed plugins can be downloaded and installed via a built-in Package Control system,or written by the user via a Python API. Sublime Text is proprietary software,but can be downloaded for free and used as an evaluation version with no time limit.
Waterfox is a free and open-source web browser and fork of Firefox. It claims to be ethical and user-centric,emphasizing performance and privacy. There are official Waterfox releases for Windows,macOS,Linux and Android. It was initially created to provide official 64-bit support,back when Firefox was only available for 32-bit systems.
Firefox was created by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross as an experimental branch of the Mozilla browser,first released as Firefox 1.0 on November 9,2004. Starting with version 5.0,a rapid release cycle was put into effect,resulting in a new major version release every six weeks. This was gradually accelerated further in late 2019,so that new major releases occur on four-week cycles starting in 2020.
Microsoft Edge,based on the Chromium open-source project,also known as The New Microsoft Edge or New Edge,is a proprietary cross-platform web browser created by Microsoft,superseding Edge Legacy. In Windows 11,Edge is the only browser available from Microsoft.
Ionic is an open-source UI toolkit for building cross-platform mobile,web,and desktop applications using web technologies such as HTML,CSS,and JavaScript/TypeScript. It provides a set of pre-designed UI components and tools for building high-quality,interactive applications. Ionic was originally built as a complete open-source SDK for hybrid mobile app development created by Max Lynch,Ben Sperry,and Adam Bradley of Drifty Co. in 2013. The original version was released in 2013 and built on top of AngularJS and Apache Cordova. However,the latest release was re-built as a set of Web Components using StencilJS,allowing the user to choose any user interface framework,such as Angular,React or Vue.js. It also allows the use of Ionic components with no user interface framework at all. Ionic provides tools and services for developing hybrid mobile,desktop,and progressive web apps based on modern web development technologies and practices,using Web technologies like CSS,HTML5,and Sass. In particular,mobile apps can be built with these Web technologies and then distributed through native app stores to be installed on devices by utilizing Cordova or Capacitor.
Snap is a software packaging and deployment system developed by Canonical for operating systems that use the Linux kernel and the systemd init system. The packages,called snaps,and the tool for using them,snapd,work across a range of Linux distributions and allow upstream software developers to distribute their applications directly to users. Snaps are self-contained applications running in a sandbox with mediated access to the host system. Snap was originally released for cloud applications but was later ported to also work for Internet of Things devices and desktop applications.
