Browsers as of Oct 2026

Browser Tier List

Rank 44 browsers from 35 makers, from Chrome and Safari to privacy forks, AI browsers, and the ones that built the web. Drag them, tap to place, or use the keyboard. Your list saves in this browser, and you can share it as a link or an image.

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Popular is the six most used browsers on StatCounter, plus the ones people switch to for privacy, power features, or AI. Switch to Current or All for 27 more.

Where the browsers come from

Every browser runs on an engine, and most engines are forks of older ones. Hover a logo for the details.

25 of the 44 browsers here run on Blink, the engine inside Chromium. Blink, Gecko, and WebKit run 37 of them.

From KDE to Chrome

KHTML

1998–2023

KDE. Retired

Built for Konqueror. Apple forked it in 2001, so most browsers today descend from it.

WebKit

2001–today

Apple. Still developed

Released with Safari in 2003. For years, every browser on the iPhone had to use it.

2013–today

Google. Still developed

The engine inside Chromium. Google built Chrome on WebKit from 2008, then forked it, and most browsers followed.

From Netscape to Firefox

Netscape

1994–2000

Netscape. Retired

Netscape Navigator's original engine, until Netscape 6 switched to Gecko.

Gecko

1997–today

Mozilla. Still developed

Begun at Netscape in 1997 and opened up as Mozilla in 1998. Firefox and every Firefox fork run on it.

Goanna

2015–today

Moonchild Productions. Still developed

Pale Moon's fork of Gecko, which keeps old-style Firefox extensions working.

Microsoft’s own

Trident

1997–today

Microsoft. Kept running, no longer developed

Internet Explorer's engine since IE4. It lives on only in Edge's IE mode.

EdgeHTML

2014–2021

Microsoft. Retired

A cleaned-up Trident for the first Edge, retired once Microsoft rebuilt Edge on Chromium.

On their own

Mosaic

1993–1997

NCSA. Retired

Its lead developers founded Netscape. Internet Explorer began as Spyglass Mosaic, which licensed the name, not the code.

Presto

2003–2013

Opera. Retired

Opera's own engine from Opera 7 until Opera 15 moved to Blink.

LibWeb

Since 2019

Ladybird. In development, not released yet

Written from scratch, first for SerenityOS and now for Ladybird, which is aiming for an alpha in 2026.

Lynx

1992–today

University of Kansas. Still developed

A text-only renderer built on libwww: no images, no CSS, no JavaScript.

Dashed logos are browsers that used to run on that engine.