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Web browsers

Web browsers

What exactly are web browsers?

As the report often mentions rendering and web browsers, there might be a need to write a little about browsers here, with a little bit of info. The five biggest browsers in use today, in no particular order, for desktop computers are Opera Software's Opera browser, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Google's Chrome, Apple's Safari and Mozilla's Firefox. In addition to these, there are mobile versions of all of these browsers.

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Opera

Developed by Opera Software.

Presto

The layout engine in use in the Opera browser is today

13 February, Opera announced that they would discontinue the work on their in-house Presto engine, and will over time transition into using the WebKit engine source.

The JavaScript engine in used is called Carakan, and will be replaced with the V8 engine in future versions.

Internet Explorer

Developed by Microsoft.

Windows 8

Trident

Webkit

Basis for Google Chrome, Apple Safari, as well as several mobile browser.

Google Chrome

Chrome OS

Apple Safari

Firefox

Developed by Mozilla

Gecko

Firefox OS