Examples of Web browsers: |
Examples of web browsers: |
*Netscape Navigator and its open-source variant, Mozilla **Galeon? **K-Meleon? *Opera |
*iCab? *OmniWeb? Text-based web browsers: |
*Mosaic? *Netscape Navigator *Mozilla *Opera |
*w3m? Early browsers which are no longer developed: *Mosaic? *Cello? |
Communication between the web server and the browser uses primarily the HTTP protocol. Most browsers also support other protocols, such as FTP, Gopher, and HTTPS, a [secure sockets layer]? encrypted version of HTTP.
Some of the more popular browsers include additional components to support Usenet news and e-mail via the NNTP, IMAP and POP protocols.
Examples of web browsers:
Text-based web browsers:
Early browsers which are no longer developed:
See also History of the Internet.