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General information

Basic general information about the browsers. Browsers listed on a light purple background are discontinued. Platforms with a yellow background have limited support.


Operating system support

Browsers are
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to run on certain
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s, without emulation. This list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common OSes today (e.g. Netscape Navigator was also developed for OS/2 at a time when
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did not exist) but does not include the growing appliance segment (for example, the
Opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libr ...
web browser has gained a leading role for use in mobile phones, smartphones, the Nintendo DS and Wii, and Personal Digital Assistants, and is also used in some smart TVs). Both the web browser and OS means most recent version, example: Windows 11 with Internet Explorer 11.


Browser features

Information about what common browser features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons).


Accessibility features

Information about what common accessibility features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons). Browsers that do not support pop-ups have no need for pop-up blocking abilities, so that field is marked as N/A.


Accessibility features (continued)

Information about what common accessibility features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons).


Web technology support

Information about what web standards, and technologies the browsers support, except for JavaScript. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.


Plugins and syndicated content support

Information about what web standards, and technologies the browsers support. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.


JavaScript support

Information about what JavaScript technologies the browsers support. Note that although XPath is used by XSLT, it is only considered here if it can be accessed using JavaScript. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality, e.g.,
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See what parts of DOM your browser supports


Protocol support

Information about what
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s the browsers support (in addition to
HTTP The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide We ...
that all (modern) browser should and do fully support). External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality. More than half of web traffic from Chrome to Google's servers is handled by QUIC protocol, not TCP (or HTTP/1). Chrome (and Opera) have support for QUIC, and
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.


Image format support

Information about what image formats the browsers support. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.


Internationalization

Most browsers are available in more than one language.


See also

*
History of the web browser A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. It further provides for the capture or input of information which may be returned to the presenting system, then sto ...
*
List of web browsers The following is a list of web browsers that are notable. Historical Layout engines * Gecko is developed by the Mozilla Foundation. ** Goanna is a fork of Gecko developed by Moonchild Productions. * Servo is an experimental web br ...
*
Comparison of browser engines This article compares browser engines, especially actively- developed ones. Some of these engines have shared origins. For example, the WebKit engine was created by forking the KHTML engine in 2001. Then, in 2013, a modified version of WebKit wa ...
* Comparison of lightweight web browsers * Version history for TLS/SSL support in web browsers * Usage share of web browsers *
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* Browser security * Browser wars * HTML5 video browser support * HTML5 audio supported audio coding formats


References

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