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| [[WebKit]] || Stable || [[Apple Inc.|Apple]], initially forked from KHTML || {{open source|[[GNU Lesser General Public License|GNU LGPL]], [[BSD licenses|BSD-style]]}} || [[Safari (web browser)|Safari]] browser, [[GNOME Web]], [[Konqueror]], [[Kagi (search engine)#Orion Browser|Orion]] and all browsers for [[iOS]]<ref name="only WebKit for iOS">{{cite web |title=Open-sourcing Chrome on iOS! |year=2017 |url= https://blog.chromium.org/2017/01/open-sourcing-chrome-on-ios.html |quote=Due to constraints of the iOS platform, all browsers must be built on top of the WebKit rendering engine. |access-date=26 April 2021}}</ref>
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| [[Blink (browser engine)|Blink]] || Stable || [[Google]], initially forked from WebKit || {{open source|[[GNU Lesser General Public License|GNU LGPL]], [[BSD licenses|BSD-style]]}} || All [[Chromium (web browser)|Chromium]]-based browsers
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| [[Gecko (software)|Gecko]] || Stable || [[Mozilla]] || {{open source|[[Mozilla Public License|Mozilla Public]]}} || [[Firefox]] browser and its forks; [[SeaMonkey]] browser, [[Mozilla Thunderbird|Thunderbird]] email client
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| [[Goanna (software)|Goanna]] || Stable || M. C. Straver,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.moonchildproductions.info/about.shtml |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313050503/http://www.moonchildproductions.info/about.shtml |title=About Moonchild Productions |author=M. C. Straver |archivedate=2017-03-13 |accessdate=2018-04-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> initially forked from Gecko || {{open source|[[Mozilla Public License|Mozilla Public]]}} || [[Pale Moon]], [[Basilisk (web browser)|Basilisk]], [[K-Meleon]] browsers
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| [[NetSurf]] || Stable || NetSurf developers<ref>{{cite web |title=NetSurf Developer page |url=http://www.netsurf-browser.org/developers/ |website=Netsurf-browser.org|accessdate=7 February 2019}}</ref> || {{open source|[[GNU General Public License#Version 2|GNU GPLv2]]}} || [[NetSurf]] browser
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| [[Servo (software)|Servo]] || Experimental<ref>{{Cite web|title=Servo engines written in Rust deliver memory safety and multithreading|url=https://research.mozilla.org/servo-engines|access-date=2020-07-05|website=Mozilla Research|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-06-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611192314/https://research.mozilla.org/servo-engines/|url-status=dead}}</ref> || [[Linux Foundation]] || {{open source|[[Mozilla Public License|Mozilla Public]]}} || Experimental browsers<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.mozvr.com/a-new-browser-for-magic-leap/ |title=A new browser for Magic Leap |date=2018-12-03 |access-date=2019-05-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.mozvr.com/firefox-reality-hololens/ |title=Firefox Reality for HoloLens 2 |date=2020-05-21 |access-date=2020-07-17}}</ref>
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| [[Ladybird (web browser)|LibWeb]] || Experimental; in pre-alpha<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/blob/master/README.md|title=Breadcrumbs/README.MD|date=2024-11-25|access-date=2025-04-17|archive-date=2025-03-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250330233620/https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/blob/master/README.md|url-status=live}}</ref> || Ladybird Browser Initiative<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kling |first=Andreas |title=Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative |url=https://ladybird.org/posts/announcement/ |date=2024-07-01 |website=ladybird.org |language=en}}</ref> || {{open source|[[BSD licenses#2-clause license ("Simplified BSD License" or "FreeBSD License")|2-clause BSD]]}} || [[Ladybird (web browser)|Ladybird]] browser<ref name="Ladybird announcement">{{cite web |author=Andreas Kling |title=Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project |date=September 2022 |url=https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform-browser-project/ |quote=Please note that we’re still early in development, and many web platform features are missing or broken. It’s going to take a long time before Ladybird is ready for day-to-day browsing.}}</ref>
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| [[KHTML]]<ref>{{cite web |title=KHTML repository |quote=Removed for KF6, the 'kf5' branch contains the last maintained state. |url=https://github.com/KDE/khtml/tree/6d89b39ddb93aa5b655508c0b5295f3f4db626b8 |website=GitHub |access-date=5 May 2023}}</ref> || Discontinued || [[KDE]] || {{open source|[[GNU Lesser General Public License|GNU LGPL]]}} || Discontinued; formerlyFormerly in the [[Konqueror]] browser<ref>{{cite web |url=https://phabricator.kde.org/T11543| title=Port Konqueror away from KHTML|website=phabricator.kde.org|access-date=5 May 2023}}</ref>
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| [[Trident (software)|Trident]] || Stable || [[Microsoft]] || {{Proprietary}} || [[Internet Explorer]] browser
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| [[EdgeHTML]] || Discontinued || [[Microsoft]] || {{Proprietary}} || Some [[Universal Windows Platform apps|UWP apps]];<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.ailon.org/you-think-you-can-forget-about-the-legacy-microsoft-edge-not-so-fast-28ce91270a22|title=You Think You Can Forget About the "Legacy" Microsoft Edge? Not So Fast!|first=Alan|last=Mendelevich|date=14 May 2021}}</ref> [[Microsoft Edge Legacy|formerly Microsoft Edge]] browser<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mackie |first1=Kurt |title=Microsoft Edge Browser To Get New Rendering Engine but EdgeHTML Continues |url=https://redmondmag.com/articles/2018/12/10/edgehtml-continues.aspx |website=Redmond Mag |date=10 December 2018 |accessdate=21 December 2019}}</ref>
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| [[Presto (browser engine)|Presto]] || Discontinued || [[Opera (company)|Opera]] || {{Proprietary}} || [[Opera Mini]] browser in Extreme/Mini mode, where contents arrive pre-rendered using this engine server-side<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dev.opera.com/articles/browsers-modes-engines/|title=Opera Browsers, Modes & Engines|website=dev.opera.com|date=2015-06-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150614113901/https://dev.opera.com/articles/browsers-modes-engines/|archive-date=2015-06-14 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| [[Flow (web browser)|Flow]]<ref name="flow">{{Cite web|url=https://support.ekioh.com/download/|website=Ekioh|title=Flow Preview Builds |quoteaccessdate=Flow's2025-04-17}}</ref> goal|| isExperimental; toin renderbeta<ref every website correctly... but there is currently a long way left to go. |accessdatename=5"flow" November 2023}}</ref> || Ekioh<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ekioh.com/company/|title=About Ekioh|website=Ekioh}}</ref> || {{Proprietary}} || [[Flow (web browser)|Flow]] browser<ref name="Flow browser homepage">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ekioh.com/flow-browser/|title=Flow Browser|website=Ekioh}}</ref>
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