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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of web browsers. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date.
General informationBasic general information about the browsers: creator/company, license/price etc.
Operating system supportThe operating systems the browsers can run on without emulation.
Browser featuresInformation about what common browser features are implemented.
Note (3): Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox support simple domain name-based image blocking. More advanced regular expression-based Ad filtering can be added with the AdBlock (http://adblock.mozdev.org) extension. Spelling checking can be added with the spellbound (http://spellbound.sourceforge.net) extension. Web technologies supportInformation about what web standards, and technologies the browsers support. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browser or extensions that provide such functionality.
Note (5): XHTML is based on HTML but is an application of XML, which means that XHTML must be stricter than equivalent HTML code. XHTML is meant to be read by an XML parser but for backward compatibility reasons can also be parsed as HTML; this table only notes the browsers that are able to parse XHTML as XML. Note (6): Internet Explorer 6 supports most properties of CSS2 but is known to have a significantly higher number of bugs than other browsers. The most notable of these is the box model bug, which affects all versions of Internet Explorer for Windows prior to IE6 and remains the default box model in IE6. Note (7): Requires installation of extension and nightly browser dated after January 28 2005 [1] (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xforms/). Note (8): See Safari features (http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/safari.html) Protocol supportInformation about what internet protocols the browsers support. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browser or extensions that provide such functionality.
Note (10): Mozilla Firefox has purposely avoided support for email and newsgroup, as these are entirely reserved for its mail-client counterpart Mozilla Thunderbird Note (11): An extension exists that can add chat support: ChatZilla (https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&version=1.0&os=Windows&id=16) Note (12): Gopher is supported through proxy servers. Image Format supportInformation about what image formats the browsers support.
Note (14): Support of MNG/JNG was dropped since June 6 2003 [2] (http://www.mozilla.org/status/2003-06-06.html) [3] (http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=12633). Note (15): Requires SVG-enabled Mozilla/Firefox (not enabled in official builds) [4] (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/). References
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