BrowseX (previously PDQ), is a smallish, fast, open-source browser (compiled for Linux and Windows) with macro processor. Now at Version 2.0

Cello, version 1.01a for Windows running on a 386SX or above. Cello is a multipurpose Internet browser which allows access to the myriad information resources of the Internet. It supports WorldWideWeb, Gopher, FTP, CSO/ph/qi, and Usenet News retrievals natively, and other protocols (WAIS, Hytelnet, Telnet, and TN3270) through external clients and public gateways. It can be used to view hypermedia documents, including inlined images, text, and digital sounds and movies. Cello was developed by Thomas R. Bruce of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School.

NetClue, is a Java component that supports CSS.

DocZilla 1.0 (previously MultiDocZilla), for XML and SGML as well as HTML; first for Windows, later for other OSes.

Emacs/W3, is a full-featured web browser, written entirely in Emacs-Lisp, that supports all the bells and whistles you will find in use on the web today, including frames, tables, stylesheets, and much more. Emacs/W3 runs on most major operating systems, including almost any flavor of Unix, Windows NT/95, AmigaDOS, OS/2, and VMS.

Espial Escape, is a versatile [but no longer] compact Java browser.

HotJava 3.0: "A lightweight, highly customizable solution for OEMs and developers creating Web-enabled devices and applications. HotJava Browser's small footprint makes it an ideal, scalable solution for a variety of devices."

The QNX IAT demo disk, was a bootable diskette complete with TCP/IP software and the QNX Voyager browser. Believe it or not, you can browse the web even when your hard disk is dead, as long as your computer is still functional. (Choose between modem and LAN connection, and among English, Russian, and Japanese languages.)

Jazilla, a Mozilla-based browser in pure Java.

K-Meleon, "may be considered the unbloated Mozilla for Windows" To be released under the GPL. K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser for the win32 (Windows) platform based on the Gecko layout engine (the rendering engine of Mozilla). K-Meleon is free, open source software released under the GNU General Public License.

Lynx, is a text browser for the World Wide Web. Use it as an invaluable tool for seeing how 'text-friendly' your webpages are.    Lynx 2.8.3 runs on Un*x, VMS, Windows 95/98/NT but not 3.1 or 3.11, on DOS (386 or higher) and OS/2 EMX.  The  current developmental version is also available for testing.  Ports to Mac are in beta test.

Minuet 1.5, was designed to "will run on (virtually) any IBM compatible machines. It fits in 640K memory and can run in CGA mode, and can run on an 8088 class machine. It is now also capable to run in graphics mode."

NCSA Mosaic, was for Windows, Mac OS, and UNIX with X Windows. (It has also been ported elsewhere.) The basis of Mosaic Netscape (aka Netscape Navigator) and Spyglass Mosaic (and thence MS Internet Explorer), as well as many other browsers. Follow the link to the only extant resource repository for the remaining NCSA Mosaic browser.

Mozilla Firefox 3.0 is Here! That's the bad news. The good news is Firefox 2.x works just fine under Windows XP SP2. The previous generation Firefox is the version you'll want to keep for the forseeable future. Runs on UNIX/Linux, Win9x/NT, Mac OS, and has been compiled for other OSes as well.

MultiWeb, a browser for people with disabilities using Windows 3 and above.

Netscape Navigator 7.2 (or Communicator), was for Windows, OS/2, Mac OS, and numerous flavors of UNIX. The program derives from Mosaic. This is the original Mosaic Netscape icon, from Mosaic Communications Corp. Our personal preference if using Netscape at all, is for version 4.76. AOL first ran it into the ground, bloated it up, then abandoned it. Follow the link to it's ignominious repository.

netomat, for the Mac, Windows, Linux, etc., invites you to have a dialogue with the web. It "has the feel of an anti-browser".

Net-Tamer, a shareware program for DOS that includes a dialer, offline mail and news reader, and ftp client as well as the web browser. It requires 640K RAM, modem, and a floppy drive (720K or better) to run. There are three versions, one for computers up to 286, another for 386 or better, and a third for palmtops.

1X, was for Win9x/NT, offering ActiveX but yet managing to fit on a single diskette. "Support for animated GIFs -- now you won't have to miss the endless adverts on web site banners."

"The Fastest Browser on Earth", it's a lean, no-nonsense browser for various flavors of Windows, for Linux/X11, Solaris, Symbian OS, Mac OS, BeOS, and OS/2. NB the "free" versions for Windows 95+, Linux and Mac OS are STILL reputed to contain Cydoor spyware.

Web Prowler 5.10, was for Windows, "offering a professional, secure and user-friendly environment in which to 'surf'. Web Prowler 5.10 offers the highest security available in an internet browser. Any calls to 'Javascript' or 'ActiveX' are bypassed, and ignored, so that your computer is virtually hack-proof." (NB any decent browser either ignores or can be made to bypass Javascript and ActiveX.)

"I.O.D. 4's The Web Stalker, is a older, high protein way to use the World Wide Web. [It's a program for Mac OS or Windows] which takes the functions of a normal proprietary browser but strips it down to be rebuilt as something faster, dirtier and more predatory." And if that isn't enough, consider: "Technical Innovation = Class War."