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A web browser engine , (sometimes called layout engine or rendering engine ), is a software component that takes marked up content (such as HTML , XML , image files, etc.) and formatting information (such as CSS , XSL , etc.) and displays the formatted content on the screen. It "paints" on the content area of a window, which is displayed on a monitor or a printer . A web browser engine is typically embedded in web browsers , e-mail clients , on-line help systems or other applications that require the displaying (and editing) of web content.

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Usage share as of Q2 2009 [ dated info ] by percent of layout engines/web browsers The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of web browser engines . Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up to date. Unless otherwise specified in footnotes, comparisons are based on the stable versions without any add-ons, extensions or external programs.

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Comparison of web browser engines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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List of web browsers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a table of personal computer web browsers by year of release of major version, in chronological order, with the approximate number of worldwide Internet users in millions. Note that Internet user data is related to the entire market, not the versions released in that year. The increased growth of the Internet in the 1990s and 2000s means that current browsers with small market shares have more total users than the entire market early on.

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WebKit is a layout engine designed to allow web browsers to render web pages . WebKit powers the Apple Safari and Google Chrome browsers. As of 2012 it has the most market share of any layout engine at 36% of the browser market share according to StatCounter .

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Flock (web browser) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Catalan, Chinese (both Traditional and Simplified), English (US, Australian, British, Canadian), Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal + African Portuguese Speaking Countries and Brazil), Russian, Slovak, Spanish (Latin American and Spain) Flock was a web browser that specialized in providing social networking and Web 2.0 facilities built into its user interface . [ 3 ] Earlier versions of Flock used the Gecko HTML rendering engine by Mozilla . Version 2.6.2, released in July 2010, was the last version based on Mozilla. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Starting with version 3, Flock was based on Chromium and so used the WebKit rendering engine. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Flock was available as a free download, and supported Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X platforms (previously also Linux ). Flock was the successor to Round Two, who raised money from Bessemer Venture Partners , Catamount Ventures , Shasta Ventures , and other angel investors .

Flock (web browser) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Safari (web browser) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. and included with the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems. First released as a public beta on January 7, 2003 [ 3 ] on the company's Mac OS X operating system , it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther". Safari is also the native browser for iOS. A version of Safari for the Microsoft Windows operating system, first released on June 11, 2007, supports Windows XP , Windows Vista , and Windows 7 . [ 4 ] According to Net Applications , Safari accounted for 62.17 percent of mobile web browsing traffic and 5.43 percent of desktop traffic in October 2011, giving a combined market share of 8.72 percent. [ 5 ] Safari is the fourth most popular web browser, behind Internet Explorer (49.59 percent), Mozilla Firefox (21.20), and Google Chrome (16.60). [ 5 ] [ edit ] History and development Until 1997, Apple Macintosh computers were shipped with the Netscape Navigator and Cyberdog web browsers only.

Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine . It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11, 2008.

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