A Review of Alternative Web Browsers

[Kristijntje]

There are more browsers than you are aware of. Besides Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer there is a number of promising alternatives which can improve your flexibility, increase your productivity and enrich your browsing experience.

In fact, there are over 100 existing (although not widely used) browser applications. Most of them make use of the rendering engines Trident (Internet Explorer), Gecko (Mozilla Firefox), WebCore (Safari) and Presto (Opera 7 and above). However, some of them offer large fields for experiments and exploration — e.g. 3D Engines, but also really useful browsers with advanced functionalities such as desktop-tools integration...

full article: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/11/...-heard-of/

[jezebel]

I'm not happy with the top 4 browsers. IE: Bloated and Security Nightmare and Windows-only. Firefox: Memory Hog. Opera: annoying. Safari: no Linux version.

[bailey.rein]

I know there are a lot of web browsers... but for now I'll stick to Firefox...