Linux Web Browsers, defunct
Last update Dec 28, 2024.
browsers no longer supported |
Name | Author | Version | Notes |
Amaya | W3C | 11.4.4 | Editor, Web standards test. Discontinued 2012. |
Arora | B. C. Meyer | 0.11.0 | Lightweight, Qt based, GPL2. WebKit-based. No change in years. |
Galeon | Gnome | 2.0.2 | Requires Mozilla install--no change since 2006. See Gnome Web. |
Skipstone | Muhri | 1.0.1 | GTK+ front end for Mozilla--last news 2008 |
BrowseX | BrowseX | 2.0.0 | In Tcl/Tk. Not so minimal. Sourceforge site has lost all its files; main web site down. |
Kylie | U. Eriksson | 0.0.7 | Frames & tables. segfaults immediately. no change since ‘02 |
Arachne | Arachne Labs | 1.66b | Alpha. Lots of dependencies not in Linux dist. No change since ‘00 |
ICEBrowser | ICESoft | 6.1.3 | Java SDK. Many plugins. Cool Web Start Demo. Withdrew from market 2009 |
Navigator | Netscape | 4.x | replaced by Communicator, 1997. open-sourced as Mozilla 2002. Bought by AOL 2004. |
Navigator | AOL | 9.0.0.6 | AOL discontinued it in 2008 |
XBrowser | A. Arvanes | 4.3 | Java. Slow and buggy. No change since ‘01. Site gone. |
Quasar | O. K. Espinosa | 0.1 | Uses Gtk and w3c-www libs. Very alpha. No change since ‘01. |
wb0 | K. Kulhavy | 000324 | Front end for links. No update since ‘00, site gone |
Armadillo | ? | 0.3.10 | GTK+. Was gzilla. No update since ‘99. Web page gone. |
mMosaic | ? | 3.7.2 | Multicast Mosaic, derived from NCSA Mosaic. no change since ‘00 |
Communicator | Netscape | 4.79 | Internet suite, once the king, discontinued 2002 |
HotJava | Sun | 3.0 | Java. |
Scate | Apostol1 | | Implementation of ICEBrowser. Web page is gone. |
Arena | W3C | beta-3b | Precursor to Amaya. |
Grail | CNRI | 0.6 | Tcl/Tk. Written in Python |
Mosaic | NCSA | 2.6 | The first big graphical web browser |
Plume | ? | ? | Tcl/Tk—now maybe called SurfIt! |
zen | nocrew.web | 0.2.3 | Replaceable interface. GPL. web site gone ‘15. |
under Wine |
Internet Explorer | Microsoft | 6 | Using Crossover |