Browser Research

Browsers

Vendor	Name	Flags/Settings	Prefix	Links	Downloads

Apple	Safari		-webkit	WikiPedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_(web_browser) Nightly: http://nightly.webkit.org/	Mac OS X: http://support.apple.com/downloads/#safari Windows: http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1531
Google	Chrome	chrome://flags	-webkit	WikiPedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome Release Calendar: http://www.chromium.org/developers/calendar Blog: http://blog.chromium.org/	Linux: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/?platform=linux&hl=en Mac OS X: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/?platform=mac&hl=en Windows: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/index.html#eula
Microsoft	Internet Explorer		-ms	WikiPedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer WikiPedia for Mobile Version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_Mobile User Agent Info: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/03/23/introducing-ie9-s-user-agent-string.aspx User Agent Info more: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2009/01/09/the-internet-explorer-8-user-agent-string-updated-edition.aspx Detecting Windows Internet Explorer More Effectively: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537509.aspx	Windows: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/download-ie
Mozilla	Firefox	about:config	-moz	Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox Releases: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases	Linux: https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-22.0&os=linux&lang=en-US Mac OS X: https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-22.0&os=osx&lang=en-US Windows: https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-22.0&os=win&lang=en-US
Opera	Opera		-o	Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser) Wikipedia for Mobile version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mobile Next: http://www.opera.com/developer/next	Linux: http://www.opera.com/download/get/?partner=www&opsys=Linux Mac OS X: http://www.opera.com/download/get/?partner=www&opsys=MacOS Windows: http://www.opera.com/download/get/?partner=www&opsys=Windows

Browser Rendering Engines:

Browser	Name	Link

Chrome	WebKit/Blink	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(layout_engine)
Firefox	Gecko	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(layout_engine)
Internet Explorer	Trident	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Trident
Opera	Presto/Blink	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presto_(layout_engine)
Safari	WebKit	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit

Browser Javascript Engines

Browser	Name	Link

Chrome	V8	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V8_JavaScript_engine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dart_(programming_language)
Firefox	SpiderMonkey & Rhino	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiderMonkey_(JavaScript_engine) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_(JavaScript_engine)
Internet Explorer	Chakra	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra_(JScript_engine)
Opera	Carakan	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presto_(layout_engine)#ECMAScript_engines
Safari	JavaScriptCore (Nitro)	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit#JavaScriptCore

Browser Debugger Tools

Browser Mobile Versions:

Current Browsers Versions

Browser	Platform

ChromeFrame	Windows: 29.0.1541.0 (Development) Windows: 28.0.1500.52 (Beta) Windows: 27.0.1453.116 (Stable)
Chrome	Linux: 29.0.1541.2 (Development) Linux: 28.0.1500.52 (Beta) Linux: 28.0.1500.52 (Stable) Mac OS X: 30.0.1576.0 (Canary) Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1576.0 Safari/537.36 Mac OS X: 30.0.1573.2 (Development) Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1573.2 Safari/537.36 Mac OS X: 28.0.1500.52 (Beta) Mac OS X: 27.0.1453.116 (Stable) Mac OS X: 28.0.1485.0 (195393) (Chromium/Dart) Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1485.0 (Dart) Safari/537.36 Windows: 29.0.1547.2 (Canary) Windows: 29.0.1541.0 (Development) Windows: 28.0.1500.52 (Beta) Windows: 27.0.1453.116 (Stable) ChromeOS: 29.0.1541.3 (Development) ChromeOS: 28.0.1500.53 (Beta) ChromeOS: 27.0.1453.116 (Stable) iOS 7 beta 3 (iPad mini): 28.0.1500.12 (Stable) Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 7_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/28.0.1500.12 Mobile/11A4414e Safari/8536.25 (2E7F0504-5DC7-4478-8C48-FA67973C9FB9) iOS 7 beta 3 (iPhone 5): 28.0.1500.12 (Stable) Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/28.0.1500.12 Mobile/11A4414e Safari/8536.25 (CE60DBD2-5A88-4FAF-B171-7139F031AA84) Android: 28.0.1500.37 (Beta) Android: 28.0.1500.94 (Stable) Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.1.1; GT-P3113 Build/JRO03C) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.94 Safari/537.36
Firefox	Firefox OS: 22 (Release) Linux: 22 (Release) Mac OS X: 22 (Release) Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0 Mac OS X: 23 (Beta) Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 Mac OS X: 24.0a2 (2013-07-26) (Aurora) Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:24.0) Gecko/20130726 Firefox/24.0 Mac OS X: 25.0a1 (2013-06-26) (Nightly) Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:25.0) Gecko/20130726 Firefox/25.0 Windows: 22 (Release) Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0 Android: 22 (Release) Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Tablet; rv:22.0) Gecko/22.0 Firefox/22.0
Internet Explorer	Windows XP: 7.0.5730.13 (Release) Windows XP: 8.0.6001.18702 (Release) Windows 7: 9.0.8112.16421 (Release) Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; InfoPath.3; .NET4.0E) Windows 7: 10 (Release) Windows 8: 10 (Release) Windows 8.1: 11 (Preview)
Opera	Mac OS X: 12.16.1860 (Release) Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8.4) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.16 Windows: 12.16.1860 (Release) Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.16 Android: 15.0.1162.60140 (Release) Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.1.1; GT-P3113 Build/JRO03C) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.63 Safari/537.36 OPR/15.0.1162.60140
Safari	Mac OS X: 6.0.5 (8536.30.1) (Release) Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_4) AppleWebKit/536.30.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0.5 Safari/536.30.1 Mac OS X: 6.0.5 (8536.30.1, 538+) (Nightly) Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_4) AppleWebKit/538.1+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0.5 Safari/536.30.1 Windows: 5.1.7 (7534.57.2) (Release) Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.57.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.7 Safari/534.57.2 iOS 7 beta 3 (iPad mini): 6.0 (Beta) Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 7_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/11A4414e Safari/8536.25 iOS 7 beta 3 (iPhone 5): 6.0 (Beta) Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/11A4414e Safari/8536.25

Resources

Type	Links

Standards	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Hypertext_Application_Technology_Working_Group http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Object_Model
Browsers	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser_history http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2010/01/12/history-of-the-user-agent-string/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_layout_engines_(HTML5) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunSpider_JavaScript_Benchmark#SunSpider http://caniuse.com/ http://html5please.com/ http://css3please.com/
Protocols	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirks_mode
ECMAScript	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAscript http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JScript http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActionScript http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3 http://acid3.acidtests.org/

Small Market Browsers

Browser	Link	Description

Maxthon Cloud Browser	http://www.maxthon.com/	Available for: iPad, iPhone, Mac, Windows
Pale Moon	http://www.palemoon.org/	Available for: firefox based, windows only
SlimBrowser	http://www.slimbrowser.net/en/	Available for: Windows
TorchBrowser	http://torchbrowser.com/	Available Chromium based, Mac & Windows
Lunascape	http://www.lunascape.tv/	Available for: Android, iPad, iPhone, Mac (Coming soon), Windows

Misc

Interesting Hacks and things:
Firefox:
Pretend to be a Win32 Machine:
  about:config
  Preference Name: general.platform.override
  Status: user set
  Type string
  Value Win32

Browser Tests

Maze: https://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/MazeSolver/
Maze of 30x30

Mac OS X 10.8:
  Chrome 28.0.1500.71: 5.9 secs
  FireFox 22: 34 secs
  Opera 12.16: 61 secs
  Safari 6.0.5: 13 secs

iPad Mini iOS 7 beta 3:
  Chrome: 25 secs
  Opera mini: secs
  Safari: 26 secs

iPhone 5 iOS 7 beta 3:
  Chrome: secs
  Opera: mini: secs
  Safari: secs

Win 7
  Chrome 28.0.1500.72m: 7.2 secs
  FireFox 22: 25 secs
  Internet Explorer 9: 20 secs
  Opera 12.15: 24 secs
  Safari 5.1.7: 6.7 secs