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The following table compares general and technical information for a number of Web browsers. Please see the individual products' articles for further information.
| Browser: | MSIE | Netscape | Mozilla | Firefox | Camino | Opera | Safari | Konqueror | Galeon | Lynx | Links | ||
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| Creator | Microsoft NCSA (Mosaic) | Netscape Inc. | Mozilla Foundation | Mozilla Foundation | Mozilla Foundation | Opera Software | Apple | KDE | GNOME | Montulli Grobe Rezac et al. | Patocka et al. | ||
| First public release date | August 1995 | October 1994 | December 1998 | September 2002 | ? | September 1996 | June 2003 | ? | ? | 1995 | ? | ||
| Mode | Graphical | Graphical | Graphical | Graphical | Graphical | Graphical | Graphical | Graphical | Graphical | Text | Text | ||
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| Stable version | 6.0 SP2 (Win) 5.2.3 (Mac) | 7.2 | 1.7.3 | 1.0PR | 0.8.1 | 7.54 | 1.2.3 | 3.3 | 1.3.17 | 2.8.3 | 0.99 | ||
| Cost (USD) | Part of Windows ($199, $99 upgrade) | Free | Free | Free | Free | Free with ads; $39 without | Part of Mac OS X ($129.00) | Free | Free | Free | Free | ||
| Free or Open License | Proprietary | Partial | MPL | MPL | MPL | Proprietary | Partial | GPL | GPL | GPL | GPL | ||
| Layout engine | Trident (Win) Tasman (Mac) | Gecko | Gecko | Gecko | Gecko | Presto | Modified KHTML | KHTML | Gecko | Unnamed | Unnamed | ||
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| Windows | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||
| Mac OS X | Discont. 2004 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||
| Mac Classic | Discont. 2003 | Yes | Discont. 2002 | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| Linux | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| BSD | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Unix | Discont. 2002 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Features | |||||||||||||
| Javascript | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | ||
| Frames rendering | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ||
| PNG RGBA support | Mac only | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ||
| Tabbed Browsing | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ||
| Browser: | MSIE | Netscape | Mozilla | Firefox | Camino | Opera | Safari | Konqueror | Galeon | Lynx | Links | ||
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