Year |
Web Browsers of how you may see the Internet WWW |
Internet users
(in millions) |
1991 |
WorldWideWeb (Nexus) |
4 |
1992 |
ViolaWWW, Erwise, MidasWWW, MacWWW (Samba) |
7 |
1993 |
Mosaic, Cello, Lynx
2.0, Arena, AMosaic
1.0 |
10–14 |
1994 |
IBM WebExplorer, Netscape
Navigator, SlipKnot
1.0, MacWeb, IBrowse, Agora (Argo), Minuet |
20–25 |
1995 |
Internet Explorer 1, Netscape
Navigator 2.0, OmniWeb, UdiWWW,
Internet
Explorer 2, Grail |
16–44 |
1996 |
Arachne 1.0, Internet
Explorer 3.0, Netscape Navigator 3.0, Opera
2.0,
PowerBrowser 1.5,
Cyberdog, Amaya 0.9, AWeb, Voyager |
36–77 |
1997 |
Internet Explorer 4.0,
Netscape Navigator 4.0, Netscape
Communicator 4.0, Opera
3.0, Amaya 1.0 |
70–120 |
1998 |
iCab, Mozilla |
147–188 |
1999 |
Amaya 2.0,
Mozilla M3, Internet
Explorer 5.0 |
248–280 |
2000 |
Konqueror, Netscape
6, Opera 4,
Opera
5, K-Meleon 0.2,
Amaya 3.0, Amaya
4.0 |
361–413 |
2001 |
Internet Explorer 6, Galeon 1.0,
Opera 6, Amaya
5.0 |
499–513 |
2002 |
Netscape 7, Mozilla
1.0, Phoenix 0.1, Links
2.0, Amaya 6.0, Amaya
7.0 |
587–662 |
2003 |
Opera 7, Safari 1.0, Epiphany 1.0,
Amaya 8.0 |
719–778 |
2004 |
Firefox 1.0, Netscape
Browser, OmniWeb 5.0 |
817–910 |
2005 |
Safari 2.0, Netscape Browser 8.0, Opera
8,
Epiphany 1.8, Amaya
9.0,
AOL Explorer 1.0, Maxthon 1.0, Shiira 1.0 |
1018–1029 |
2006 |
SeaMonkey 1.0,
K-Meleon 1.0, Galeon 2.0, Camino 1.0,
Firefox 2.0, Avant 11, iCab 3,
Opera 9, Internet
Explorer 7 |
1093–1157 |
2007 |
Maxthon 2.0, Netscape
Navigator 9, NetSurf 1.0, Flock 1.0,
Safari 3.0, Conkeror |
1319–1373 |
2008 |
Konqueror 4, Safari
3.1, Opera 9.5, Firefox
3, Amaya 10.0, Flock
2, Chrome 1,
Amaya 11.0 |
1562–1574 |
2009 |
Internet Explorer 8,
Chrome 2–3, Safari 4, Opera
10, SeaMonkey
2, Camino 2, Firefox
3.5 |
1743–1802 |
2010 |
K-Meleon 1.5.4, Firefox
3.6, Chrome 4–8, Opera
10.50,
Safari 5, xxxterm,
Opera 11 |
1971–2034 |
2011 |
Chrome 9–16, Firefox
4-9, Internet
Explorer 9, Maxthon 3.0, SeaMonkey 2.1–2.3, Opera
11.50, Safari 5.1 |
2264–2272 |
2012 |
Chrome 17–23, Firefox 10–17, Internet
Explorer 10, Opera
12, Safari 6 |
2497–2511 |
2013 |
Chrome 24–31, Firefox 18–26, Internet
Explorer 11, Opera 15–18, Safari 7 |
2712 |
WorldWideWeb, February 25, 1991
Mosaic, April 22, 1993
Netscape Navigator and Netscape
Communicator, October 13, 1994
Internet Explorer, August 16, 1995
Opera, 1996, see History
of the Opera web browser
Mozilla Navigator, June 5, 2002[19]
Safari, January 7, 2003
Mozilla Firefox, November 9, 2004
Google Chrome, September 2, 2008
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