你知道 Linux 中到底有多少 Web 浏览器吗？这里有一份详细地列表，其中既包括平常我们所使用的 Firefox、Opera，也包括许多新面孔。我细数了一番，竟然总共有 43 种之多。让人不禁对开源人士油然而生敬意。感兴趣的朋友可以去看看。
WWW-Browsers for Linux
There are many browsers available for Linux. I did not find a listing which I thought to be complete, especially considering non-x86 platforms. This list tries to accomplish this task. I tried to include all browsers for web pages (i.e., no pure 3D browsers) which are available for Linux. If a browser is missing or the information given is incorrect, I would be very glad if you could give me the information via email at .
The list is limited to browsers for HTML/XHTML/XML. Some might do other Formats as well (VRML, WAP) but I will not list browsers which are limited to such an format/protocol.
The column state indicates if and how the browser can be run under Linux/AXP: Check for a detailed description.
If your favorite web page insists on certain browsers, you have to .
Since several browsers are either totally out of date or their web page is no longer available, I split the list into browser with recent development (i.e. those which are likely to display current web pages) and older browsers. If you think I misplaced a browser then please mail me.
If you like to use the table in your own work, you may do so under the GPL. I would be happy to receive proper credit, though.
| Name | State | Brief description |
|---|---|---|
| This reference browser from the W3C is capable of handling some of the latest web technologies, e.g., Cascaded Style Sheets. It is especially well suited for editing and syntax-checking of existing pages. | ||
| S | Atlantis is a lightweight Web browser based on GTK-. | |
| ? | Svgalib based, beta version available. Binary only. | |
| Barque is a new web browser designed to be run on the G.N.O.M.E environment. It uses the GtkHtml component and is Bonobo enabled. | ||
| A (security) enhanced version of Mozilla. Commercial support available. | ||
| BrowseX is a free Open Source, cross-platform Web Browser, Mail Program, Talk/Chat client and more. There is a database interface, SQLite, and BrowseX is easily extensible via an API. BrowseX has been written primarily in C and Tcl. | ||
| The cheetah web browser is a project that has been started to create a fully functional, light-weight, bloat-free web browser for Linux (and other free Unix clones) that is not dependant on KDE, GNOME or Mozilla. | ||
| HTML 3.2 capable browser (including several picture formats, tables, forms) capable of handling SSL. Written in OTcl. Development is currently frozen. | ||
| Conkeror | Q | Conkeror is a Mozilla based web browser (requires to install) designed to be completely keyboard driven, no compromises. It also strives to behave as much like Emacs as possible. This means all the key bindings and to-die-for features of Emacs that can be imitated by a javascript/XUL web browser Just Work. |
| Dillo is a small (less than 400 Kb), GTK+ based web browser project completely written in C. It is based on gzilla and armadillo (see below) and aims to be small, stable, developer-friendly, usable, fast and extensible. | ||
| Elinks is text WWW browser based on and is actively developed. ELinks can render both frames and tables, is highly customizable and can be extended via Lua or Guile scripts. | ||
| Encompass is a web browser for the GNOME Desktop. Currently being completely rewritten. | ||
| Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the Mozilla rendering engine; it aims for simplicity, standard compliance and GNOME integration (including the Human Interaction Guidelines). | ||
| Q | Firefox (previously Firebird) is the new name of Phoenix which is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component, similar to , K-Meleon and , but written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. It has a modularized design and user can install a large number of plug-ins (like googlebar; mouse gestures like in ) of his choice. | |
| Galeon is a GNOME web browser based on gecko (Mozilla rendering engine). It's fast, it has a light interface and it is full standards compliant. It requires current Mozilla sources to build. | ||
| Yelp is the default help viewer for GNOME 2. It can read documentation in HTML or DocBook format. | ||
| Grail is an extensible Internet browser written entirely in the interpreted object-oriented programming language Python. Last release March 2000. | ||
| Since Sun's direct support is limited to Solaris for SPARC, Windows NT and Windows 95, Linux users have to get the runtime environment separately and cannot use SSL. If you've tried it with (on alpha) I'd be glad to know the results. | ||
| ICEsoft's family of commercial Java-based browsers, browser toolkits, and related products is available for licensing on embedded devices or enterprise applications and contains a MathML pilot which can render MathML content based on Webeq 2.3. Trial downloads are available. If you've tried it with (on alpha) I'd be glad to know the results. | ||
| The Jazilla Project aims to create a Mozilla like Browser suite in Java, which is standards compliant and embedable. If you've tried it with (on alpha) I'd be glad to know the results. | ||
| Kazehakase is a browser with gecko engine like Epiphany or Galeon and support for remote (Japanese) bookmarks. | ||
| Q | Konqueror is the successor of kfm, the file manager and web browser in KDE 1.x. Besides browsing, it can be used as a file manager and universal viewer as well. HTML 4.0, ECMAscript 262, can house Java applets, full CSS1 and partial CSS2, bidirectional scripts and SSL support. In full development. It now supports tabs as well! | |
| A Lightweight Web Browser. It does text, images, tables and soon forms. It doesn't do CSS, frames or scripting. | ||
| Yet Another Mozilla-based browser. Features very simple non-bloated GTK+ interface, familiar Netscape 4.x keyboard shortcuts, context menus, etc.. Based on Mozilla. | ||
| THE original browser, by Tim Barners-Lee. Still under development, closely tied to libwww. Last independent release was 1995 though. | ||
| Links | Q | Links is text WWW browser with tables. There is also a and external development paths called and . |
| Links is WWW browser for the console, for the frambuffer and for X, based on . It displays tables, frames, downloads on background, and features Javascript. In graphics mode it displays PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and XBM pictures, runs external bindings on other types, and features anti-aliased font, smooth image zooming, 48-bit dithering, and gamma and aspect ratio correction. | ||
| Very flexible text mode browser with many features (including SSL) but without table support. Most likely already installed. | ||
| The Minimo (Mini Mozilla) project is focused on code-size and runtime footprint reduction, and porting to small consumer devices. The primary focus of Minimo to date has been system with ~32-64 MB of RAM, running Linux and using the GTK toolkit. Other platforms and toolkits have been investigated as well. | ||
| - | Browser for embedded systems, GTK based, commercial. Basically a SDK for embedded applications (Phones, PDA). | |
| Netrik is the ANTRIK Internet Viewer/Browser/Explorer/Navigator/whatever than is able to run in pure text mode. | ||
| Netscape Navigator/Communicator. Version 3.01. Please note Netscape 6.x/Mozilla below. | ||
| The open-sourced/freed development version of Netscape 7, called Mozilla. Version 1.0 is really nice. See also Aphrodite. If you have a small device, have a look at . | ||
| Opera is a commercial browser currently available free of charge for Linux/Intel, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc. Opera aims to be fully W3C standards compliant but yet to remain a low memory footprint; latest version however do have a larger memory consumption. | ||
| S | An example browser implementation which uses Gtk+ , Kjs, Khtml, KWIQ and NRCIT. Written in C and uses Gtk+ GUI-library. | |
| Tcl/TK-Browser for downloading special content (TV-programs). | ||
| CVS | Pyleon is an extensible GTK+ web browser written in Python, with support for both Mozilla and GtkHTML. Non-core browser features are implemented as modules so power users can load only their desired features, and programmers can easily add their own. | |
| retawq is an interactive, multi-threaded network client (web browser) for text terminals on computers with Unix-like operating systems. It is written in C, fast, small, nicely configurable, and comfortable. | ||
| Scamper is a simple web browser which runs in Squeak. Enough is supported that you can browse around on the Web. Images with transparent backgrounds even look pretty cool. | ||
| SkipStone is a Gtk+ Web Browser that embeds Mozilla's rendering component Gecko. It aims to be light and fast with few dependencies. | ||
| This office-suite can also be used to surf the web. Note that the next version is developed as Open Source on . | ||
| The ViewML Browser is an open source project aimed at producing a small memory footprint, high-quality web browser for the rapidly growing embedded Linux market. The ViewML Browser is based on KDE's kfm (KDE file manager), and FLTK (fast light tool kit). | ||
| Small text based browser (originally a pager) with support for tables. Works on Alpha. | ||
| A variant of with support for multiple character encodings. | ||
| X-Smiles is a Java based XML browser. It is intended for both desktop use and embedded network devices and to support multimedia services. The main advantage of the X-Smiles browser is that it supports several XML related specifications (including XHTML) and is still suitable for embedded devices supporting the Java environment. And yes, it runs on alpha using SableVM. | ||
| Initially a web browser for the Linux framebuffer, using the library named oFBis, now extending to other frontends as well. Zen is a long term project, and will take an unspecified amount of time to write. |
| Name | State | Brief description |
|---|---|---|
| Armadillo | Q | Gtk-based browser, formerly called Gzilla (see below). Does not compile, no longer maintained. See dillo above. |
| The old reference browser of the W3C. Development continued by Yggdrasil. Latest changes from March, 1997. | ||
OMRON Corporation has developed to extend Arena to be able to display Chinese, Korean and Japanese characters in one page. OMRON's Arena supports both ISO-2022 and UNICODE. It guesses charsetautomatically, if charestparameter isn't specified in Content-Type field. | ||
| Axene | T | Browser developed specifically for local documentation as part of an office-suite. The original site has been removed and I haven't found a mirror yet. |
| Chimera 1.x. Original home page (and of extended version) no longer working. | ||
| Chimera 2.0 | Q | Complete rewrite of Chimera 1.x. |
| A free web browser written completely in Common Lisp. The GUI is based on CLUE. The browser is in alpha state. Generally the underlying core (HTTP, SGML, HTML, CSS) is stable. The UI is lacking. | ||
| debris is a free (see GPL) text mode HTML browser package. It provides tables, forms, a secure environment and is small (only 25% of lynx). | ||
| Emacs W3 | Emacs/W3 is a full-featured web browser, written entirely in Emacs-Lisp, that supports all the bells and whistles you will find in use on the web today, including frames, tables, style sheets, and much more. An emacs version 20.x or greater is recommended. Currently a modular rewrite is being done. | |
| embrowser | ? | A browser tailored for embedded devices based on x86 (Pentium+) and PowerPC machines. |
| CVS | Express is written for the Gnome desktop project. It aims to be a full-featured web browser; however it will do this with extensive plugin support, so it is basically as lightweight as needed. | |
| Gzilla is a web browser written in the Gtk+ framework. It's still in early alpha. It does not compile and is no longer maintained. Please note Dillo above. | ||
| JoZilla | H | Pure Java based browser for HTML 4.0. |
| The KDE file-manager (kfm) is capable of browsing as well. | ||
| Q T | Midas is very old (1993!), unsupported, crashes if it encounters pages with tables (there weren't any tables in 1993) and is basically of no more than historic interest. | |
| MMM is a WWW browser implemented in Objective Caml using its CamlTk41 interface to Tcl/Tk. Supports HTML 2.0, most of HTML 3.2 and frames. Last modified December 1997. | ||
| Based on NCSA Mosaic (see below). Supports Table, one level frame and IPv6/IPv4. The project aims to have a multicasted browser (hence the m). This project has been abandoned. | ||
| Mnemonic | Q | Apart from HTML 4.0, Mnemonic will support the W3C standards XML and CSS. There will also be support for mathematics typesetting in the form of MathML and TeX. Currently a GTK-- based version is available, but a text-only interface is expected in the near future. Compiling on Alphas is done internally at irregular intervals. The project is in a terminal coma currently. |
| One of the first browsers available. Development was discontinued 1996. Please note mMosaic above. | ||
| H | netomat(TM) is a meta-browser. Requires Java 1.1.6 (or later) virtual machine. The download is now focused on Windows and Mac. | |
| NetRaider | ? | A fast, small, free and nice web browser for Unix. Requires qt 2.2.2; based on konquerer engine. |
| Plume/SurfIt | - | Tcl/TK-Browser from Australia. The host no longer exists, also the mirrors from A. Caldwell are gone by now. It can post HTML forms for CGI scripts and can do HTML tables but not frames. With the IMG extension for Tk, they can do most image types found on the web. He also provided a version for Agenda VR3. |
| A general SGML-parser. No new version since end of 1997. | ||
| ? | This browser was distributed with RedHat 4.2, Intel. There seems to be no information available about it anymore. | |
| Skate | H | Skate Browser is simply an implementation of the iceBrowser bean from iceSoft. Can be used with Uncle Georges JRE.The webpage seems to be no longer available. |
| wb0 | Q | A svgalib web browser — an early version yet. Emphasis is on high quality picture display. Currently requires lynx, the author intends to merge with links in the future. wb0 itself is no longer under development. |