Over the past few years many different browsers have been created and become very popular for example Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, however, there are many browsers which are generally unheard of among the majority of web users. Here are 5 of them
1. Camino– Is a free, open source web browser which means”path” in Spanish. It is based on Mozilla’s Gecko layout engine and was created to work well with the Mac OS. It integrates a number of Mac OS X services and features such as the Keychain for password management and Bonjour for scanning available bookmarks across the local network. Other cool features include an integrated Pop-up blocker and Ad blocker, tabbed browsing, and support for open standards.
2. Mozilla Seamonkey– Is a free and open source web browser based on the Mozilla Application Suite. It is cross-platform so it runs on Linux, Windows and Mac ,although, unofficial versions exist for ; FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, IRIX, OS/2, Solaris, AIX and BeOS/magnussoft ZETA. Built in is a Chat feature and a WYSIWYG HTML editor which is used generally for browser previews as well has these functions it has a browser.
3. Flock– Is a web browser built on Mozilla’s Codebase that was made particularly for social networking with loads of features like a built in blogging tool and facebook chat. It is cross-platform and available in unofficial versions on others less used operating systems. It is available in over 20 languages including; Catalan, Chinese, French and German. Just like Firefox and Chrome it comes with the ability to add many different add-ons.
4. Lunascape is a web browser developed by Lunascape Corporation in Tokyo, Japan. It is unique in that it contains three rendering engines: Gecko (used in Mozilla Firefox), WebKit (used in Apple Safari and Google Chrome), and Trident (used in Microsoft Internet Explorer). The user can switch between layout engines seamlessly. It is currently only available for Windows however it works under Linux if you use WINE or Mac OSX if you use Crossover.
5. Konqueror– Konqueror is a browser as well as a file browser. The ‘k’ in the name comes from it following the KDE naming tradition of all applications with the letter ‘k’ at the begginning. It is cross-platform and was designed specifically to work on UNIX-like operating systems rather than Windows however it does work well on Windows.
Well that is my list of 5 Browsers You’ve Never Heard Of so I hope you enjoyed reading it and you use them.
Not to slash your article, but I’ve heard of all these browsers.
SeaMonkey and Konqueror are even browsers that I had as default for a while, their pretty good 🙂
Camino I only heard of and saw screenshots, I have no Mac so I’ve never used it 😦
Flock is a bad browser, at least that’s what I think of the few times I’ve tried it.
Lunascape is also one I’ve never tried, but it doesn’t attract me and it’s also for Windows only.
Good article though 🙂
The reason I listed Konqueror is because mant Windows and Mac users won’t of heard of it.
Kirix Strata
Lunarscape is the only browser I never heard of. nice articles anyway 🙂
You forgot Epiphany.
Yeah, thought of doing that but I decided I would leave it and write another article on it.
Still about Epiphany.
It has been strongly improved and it’s much more functional by the time Gnome 2.30 was released (= Epiphany 2.30.2).
5 Browsers you probably really haven’t heard of:
1. Vimprobable
http://www.vimprobable.org/
2. Uzbl
http://www.uzbl.org/
3. Conqueror
http://conkeror.org/
4. Surf
http://surf.suckless.org/
5. Rekonq
http://rekonq.sourceforge.net/
Nice list, interesting. Just found that uzbl, rekonq and conkeror are even available in the Ubuntu repositories. So, checking them out right now…
Nice… Take some screenshots and send them through to me and I’ll write a thanks article to all the fans that helped and made a list of other browsers
How about Midori? It has been my light weight browser of choice lately. I can’t believe you listed Konqueror, anyone who has used Linux for more than a month odds are knows this one… Its the default in most KDE distros.
~Jeff
If you read the post above it says it covers all OS so… Thanks for the comment anyway
Another one is kazehakase.
http://kazehakase.sourceforge.jp/
And why showing v1.0 for Mozilla’s SeaMonkey. It’s at v2! v1 is unsupported too.
I couldn’t get a good screenshot of v2 so i found that one
What? No Links love?
if your article for windows/mac user yup, i can say they maybe dunno bout that browser.
but act lot of my friend using flock. they are windows-er
p.s how bout elinks? ngeh.. cli browser :p
Eh, typical article by a non-technical user. Next time, you can avoid discrediting yourself with a more appropriate title like, “5 Browsers You May Not Have Heard of”
It’s aimed at a non-techinal user and I was trying to be creative.
Enter your comments here…
You missed many of my favorites. Dillo, Galeon, lynx and elinks, etc. and some I dont like like opera.
Yeah they are all good, especially Opera!
How about Arora
I’ve been checking that out- it’s pretty awesome