Comparison of feed aggregators
Encyclopedia
The following is a comparison of notable RSS
feed aggregators. Often e-mail programs and web browsers have the ability to display RSS feeds. They are listed here, too.
Many BitTorrent clients
support RSS feeds for broadcatching
(see Comparison of BitTorrent clients).
Netscape Messenger 9
is a fork of Mozilla Thunderbird
and has the same features.
s and Internet suite
s have for browser plugin a N/A, because they don't need it.
RSS
-Mathematics:* Root-sum-square, the square root of the sum of the squares of the elements of a data set* Residual sum of squares in statistics-Technology:* RSS , "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary", a family of web feed formats...
feed aggregators. Often e-mail programs and web browsers have the ability to display RSS feeds. They are listed here, too.
Many BitTorrent clients
BitTorrent client
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer program developed by Bram Cohen and BitTorrent, Inc. used for uploading and downloading files via the BitTorrent protocol. BitTorrent was the first client written for the protocol. It is often nicknamed Mainline by developers denoting its official origins. Since version...
support RSS feeds for broadcatching
Broadcatching
Broadcatching is the downloading of digital content that has been made available over the Internet using RSS.The general idea is to use an automated mechanism to aggregate various web feeds and download content for viewing or presentation purposes....
(see Comparison of BitTorrent clients).
Release history
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| Akregator | August 15, 2010 | 1.6.5 | ||||
| Amarok | June 23, 2003 | August 13, 2008 | 1.4.10 | |||
| AOL Explorer AOL Explorer AOL Explorer, previously known as AOL Browser, is a graphical web browser based on the Microsoft Trident layout engine and was released by AOL. In July 2005, AOL launched AOL Explorer as a free download and as an optional download with AIM version 5.9. AOL Explorer supports tabbed... |
June 2005 | 1.0 | June 2005 | 1.0 | May 10, 2006 | 1.5 |
| Avant Avant Browser Avant Browser is a freeware web browser from a Chinese programmer named Anderson Che, which unites the Trident layout engine built into Windows with an interface intended to be more feature-rich, flexible and ergonomic than Microsoft's Internet Explorer . It runs on Windows 2000 and above,... |
August 2004 | ? | August 2004 | ? | September 27, 2008 | 11.7 Build 15 |
| BlogBridge BlogBridge BlogBridge is an open source Java-based feed aggregator. It is described on the BlogBridge web site as "a powerful blog and feed reader". BlogBridge is aimed for those people who are subscribed to many feeds, including journalists, PR professionals and OPML enthusiasts.Developing team consists of a... |
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| BottomFeeder BottomFeeder BottomFeeder is a cross-platform aggregator. It is written by , an employee of Cincom in their language Cincom Smalltalk.Like other RSS aggregators it allows you to subscribe to websites to find new content in a push style update instead of manually checking their websites periodically with a web... |
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| Canto Canto (news aggregator) Canto is a terminal based aggregator for online news. It supports all major news formats , as well as importing from and exporting to OPML. The news content is downloadable and as such Canto also has limited podcasting support... |
June 3, 2008 | 0.4.0 | January 14, 2009 | 0.6.0 | August 17, 2009 | 0.7.4 |
| Claws Mail Claws Mail Claws Mail is a free, GTK+-based, open source email and news client. It offers easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH mailbox format and also the Mbox mailbox format via a plugin... |
May 2001 | 0.4.67 | January 2005 | 1.0.0 | December 19, 2008 | 3.7.0 |
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| FeedDemon FeedDemon FeedDemon is a free RSS Feed reader for Windows. It was created and developed by Nick Bradbury, author of tools HomeSite, an HTML editor, and TopStyle, a CSS editor. FeedDemon is developed in Delphi. FeedDemon was purchased by NewsGator Technologies in May 2005. It is able to synchronize with... |
December 9, 2010 | 4.0.0.22 | ||||
| Feedreader Feedreader (Windows Application) Feedreader is a free RSS and Atom aggregator for Windows. It has a stripped down, though configurable, three-pane interface similar to NetNewsWire on Mac OS X. Recent beta versions use MySQL as database back-end.... |
April 24, 2001 | 1.54 | April 20, 2009 | 3.14 | ||
| Flock Flock (web browser) Flock was a web browser that specialized in providing social networking and Web 2.0 facilities built into its user interface.Earlier versions of Flock used the Gecko HTML rendering engine by Mozilla.... |
October 24, 2005 | 0.4.9 | November 2, 2007 | 1.0 | October 14, 2008 | 2.0 |
| FreeRange WebReader FreeRange WebReader FreeRange WebReader is a free RSS based Feed reader and content service for mobile phones and PDAs. It was created and developed by FreeRange Communications and the core technology is incorporated in numerous other product including NewsGator Go!, Attensa Mobile and VersionTracker Mobile products... |
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| Gnus Gnus Gnus is a message reader running under GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It supports reading and composing both news and e-mail.Gnus blurs the distinction between news and e-mail, treating them both as "articles" that come from different sources. News articles are kept separate by group, and e-mail can be... |
1987 | February 1, 1988 | ||||
| Google Reader Google Reader Google Reader is a Web-based aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds online or offline. It was released by Google on October 7, 2005 through Google Labs. Reader was graduated from beta status on September 17, 2007.-Interface:... |
October 7, 2005 | September 17, 2007 | 2.0 | March 21, 2008 | 5.10.10 | |
| Hubdog Hubdog Hubdog is an RSS aggregator for Windows Mobile. It was created and developed by Société Radio Numérique Inc. Hubdog combines the functionalities of an RSS reader, a podcast player, a unique search engine, and channels that can be shared among community members and synced with Internet Explorer and... |
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| IBM Lotus Notes | 1989 | 1.0 | 1989 | 1.0 | October 2011 | 8.5.3 |
| Internet Explorer Internet Explorer Windows Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year... |
March 14, 2011 | 9.0.8112.16421 | ||||
| iTunes ITunes iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.... |
June 16, 2010 | 9.2 | ||||
| Juice | ||||||
| K-Meleon K-Meleon K-Meleon is a web browser for the Microsoft Windows platform. Based on the same Gecko layout engine as Mozilla Firefox, K-Meleon uses native Windows application programming interface to create the user interface, instead of using Mozilla's cross-platform XML User Interface Language layer, and as... |
November 26, 2000 | 0.2 | November 26, 2000 | 0.2 | October 16, 2008 | 1.5.1 |
| Kazehakase Kazehakase Kazehakase is a web browser for Unix-like operating systems that uses the GTK+ libraries. Kazehakase embeds the Gecko layout engine as well as GTK+ WebKit. However, the author also plans to add the ability to switch between additional different rendering engines... |
January 29, 2003 | January 29, 2003 | July 29, 2008 | 0.5.5 | ||
| Liferea Liferea Liferea is an abbreviation for Linux Feed Reader, a news aggregator for online news feeds. It supports the major feed formats including RSS/RDF and Atom and can import and export subscription lists in OPML format... |
September 29, 2010 | 1.6.5 | ||||
| Mail Mail (application) Mail is an email program included with Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system. Originally developed by NeXT as NeXTMail, a part of their NeXTSTEP operating system, it was adapted, following Apple's acquisition of NeXT, to become OS X's Mail application.Mail uses the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols,... |
September 15, 2008 | 3.5 (929.4/929.2) | ||||
| Managing News | October 16, 2009 | 1.0-beta2 | September 28, 2010 | 1.1 | October 29, 2010 | 1.2 |
| Maxthon Maxthon Maxthon is a free web browser for Microsoft Windows. The latest release, Maxthon 3, supports both the Trident and the WebKit rendering engines.... |
July 11, 2002 | 0.1 (as MyIE2) | September 8, 2005 | 1.0.0250 | December 28, 2007 | 2.0.7.1245 |
| MediaMonkey MediaMonkey MediaMonkey is a proprietary digital media player and media library application developed by Ventis Media Inc., for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems. By using plugins, it can be extended to handle video and other media formats as well.MediaMonkey is available in a... |
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| Microsoft Office Outlook | 1997 | 97 | 1997 | 97 | June 15, 2010 | 14.0.5128.5000 |
| Mindity Mindity Mindity was a RSS Feed reader for Windows based on Microsoft .NET with many social networking functions. It was a personalized newsfeed service that serves a community of web users by enabling them to explore the RSS space on a single platform across a variety of feed formats... |
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| Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. , Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 25% of worldwide usage share of web browsers... |
September 23, 2002 | 0.1 | September 23, 2002 | 0.1 | September 14, 2010 | 3.6.10 |
| Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser... |
July 28, 2003 | 0.1 | December 7, 2004 | 1.0 | September 16, 2010 | 3.1.4 |
| NetNewsWire NetNewsWire NetNewsWire is a news aggregator for Mac OS X and iOS, and was one of the first desktop RSS readers on any platform.- History :NetNewsWire was developed by Brent and Sheila Simmons for their company Ranchero Software. It was introduced on July 12, 2002, with NetNewsWire Lite, a free version missing... |
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| Netscape Browser Netscape Browser Netscape Browser is the name of a proprietary Windows web browser published by AOL, but developed by Mercurial Communications. It is the eighth major release in name of the Netscape series of browsers, originally produced by the defunct Netscape Communications Corporation.While Netscape Browser's... |
November 30, 2004 | 0.5.6+ | May 19, 2005 | 8.0 | April 2, 2007 | 8.1.3 |
| Netscape Navigator 9 Netscape Navigator 9 Netscape Navigator 9 is a web browser produced by the Netscape Communications division of parent AOL, first announced on January 23, 2007. After AOL outsourced the development of Netscape Browser 8 to Mercurial Communications in 2004, Netscape Navigator 9 marked the first Netscape browser to be... |
June 5, 2007 | 9.0 Beta 1 | October 15, 2007 | 9.0 | February 20, 2008 | 9.0.0.6 |
| NewsAccess NewsAccess NewsAccess is a free news aggregator for Mac OS X. Like other major news aggregators it uses the standard three-paned interface similar to Apple Mail or Outlook Express. It is developed by Earthlink as part of its Total Access software suite... |
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| NewsFire NewsFire NewsFire is an RSS newsreader developed by David Watanabe for Mac OS X. It supports Atom, RSS, and Podcasting. NewsFire features groups, labels, smart groups, search, and integration with iTunes, Spotlight, and weblog editors... |
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| OmniWeb OmniWeb OmniWeb is a proprietary Internet web browser developed and marketed by The Omni Group. It is available exclusively for Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system... |
1994 | 0.5 | March 17, 1995 | 1.0 | September 26, 2008 | 5.8 |
| Opera Mail | September 1996 | 2.1b1 | December 1996 | 2.1 | March 22, 2010 | 10.51 |
| Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail is a donationware , proprietary, email client that is developed and maintained by David Harris and his team. It was originally released in 1990 for internal and external mail on Netware networks with MS-DOS clients, and was subsequently ported to Microsoft Windows... |
1990 | 1990 | July 16, 2006 | 4.41 | ||
| Rhythmbox Rhythmbox Rhythmbox is an audio player that plays and helps organize digital music. Originally inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. However, Rhythmbox functions on desktop environments other than GNOME.-Music... |
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| RSS Bandit RSS Bandit RSS Bandit is an open source RSS/Atom aggregator based on the Microsoft .NET framework. It was originally released as a code sample in a series of articles the Extreme XML column written by Dare Obasanjo on MSDN in 2003. The articles were and . A number of readers of the article liked the product... |
2003 | 1.0 | March 2003 | 1.0 | July 4, 2010 | 1.9.0.1002 |
| RSSOwl RSSOwl RSSOwl is a news aggregator for RSS and Atom News feeds. It is written in Java, and is built on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform which uses SWT as a widget toolkit to allow it to fit in with the look and feel of different operating systems while remaining cross-platform... |
2003 | 1.0 | 2011 | 2.1 | July 15, 2011 | 2.1 |
| Safari Safari (web browser) 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 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... |
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| Sage Sage (Mozilla Firefox extension) Sage is a lightweight RSS and atom feed aggregator extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. The extension was developed by Peter Andrews and Erik Arvidsson. The current stable release of Sage is version 1.4.12, released on June 16, 2011.... |
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| SE-RssTools SE-RssTools SE-RssTools is a free portable Feed reader and RSS editor for Windows with RSS, RDF, Atom and iTunes Podcast feed formats support.SE-RssTools lets to read, search and manage RSS feeds or create RSS feeds without knowledge of XML format and structure.... |
December 15, 2008 | 1.1.1 | December 15, 2008 | 1.1.1 | December 18, 2009 | 1.3.1.31 |
| Shiira Shiira Shiira is an open source web browser for the Mac OS X operating system. According to its website, the goal of Shiira was "to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari". Shiira uses WebKit for rendering and scripting.Shiira Project was led by Makoto Kinoshita. The latest release... |
July 16, 2007 | 2.2 | ||||
| Sleipnir Sleipnir (web browser) Sleipnir is a tabbed web browser developed by Fenrir Inc. The browser is known for its high level of user customization and is one of the few browsers to still support Windows 98... |
June, 2005 | 2.00 alpha | Oct, 2005 | 2.00 | 18 Sep 2008 | 2.8.2 |
| Snarfer Snarfer Snarfer is a free RSS feed reader produced by Snarfware, LLC. It was created and developed by James Holderness , William Templeton, and Kirk Colvin... |
15 June 2008 | 1.0.2 | ||||
| Songbird Songbird (software) Songbird is a free and open source software audio player and web browser, with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."... |
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| The Bat | March 1997 | 1.0 Beta | March 1998 | 1.00 Build 1310 | April 23, 2008 | 4.0.28 |
| Tiny Tiny RSS | August 22, 2005 | 0.1 | May 20, 2011 | 1.5.4 | ||
| Winamp Winamp Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.Winamp... |
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| Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail is a free of charge email client from Microsoft's Windows Live set of products. It is intended to be a successor for Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows Mail on Windows Vista... |
November 6, 2007 | 2008 (Build 12.0.1606) | ||||
| YeahReader YeahReader YeahReader is a free RSS Feed reader for Windows. It was created and developed by Yeah Software, a small division of Extralabs Software. YeahReader is developed in Visual Basic 6. It is available for the Windows platform.-External links:***... |
July 8, 2009 | 2.7 | ||||
| Zimbra Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a groupware product created by Zimbra, Inc., located in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was purchased by Yahoo! in September 2007, and subsequently purchased by VMware on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The software consists of both client and server components... |
November, 2005 | Beta | March, 2006 | 3.5 | February 2008 | 5.0.2 |
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| Client | Date | Version | Date | Version | Date | Version |
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Netscape Messenger 9
Netscape Messenger 9
Netscape Messenger is a standalone, multiplatform e-mail and news client that was developed by Netscape. Announced on June 11, 2007 as Netscape Mercury, the program was intended to accompany the web browser Netscape Navigator 9, and was based on Mozilla's Thunderbird.The original name Mercury was...
is a fork of Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser...
and has the same features.
Operating system support
| Client | Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... |
Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... |
Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... |
BSD | Solaris | Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Windows Mobile is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft that was used in smartphones and Pocket PCs, but by 2011 was rarely supplied on new phones. The last version is "Windows Mobile 6.5.5"; it is superseded by Windows Phone, which does not run Windows Mobile software.Windows Mobile is... |
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| AOL Explorer AOL Explorer AOL Explorer, previously known as AOL Browser, is a graphical web browser based on the Microsoft Trident layout engine and was released by AOL. In July 2005, AOL launched AOL Explorer as a free download and as an optional download with AIM version 5.9. AOL Explorer supports tabbed... |
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| Avant Avant Browser Avant Browser is a freeware web browser from a Chinese programmer named Anderson Che, which unites the Trident layout engine built into Windows with an interface intended to be more feature-rich, flexible and ergonomic than Microsoft's Internet Explorer . It runs on Windows 2000 and above,... |
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| BlogBridge BlogBridge BlogBridge is an open source Java-based feed aggregator. It is described on the BlogBridge web site as "a powerful blog and feed reader". BlogBridge is aimed for those people who are subscribed to many feeds, including journalists, PR professionals and OPML enthusiasts.Developing team consists of a... |
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| BottomFeeder BottomFeeder BottomFeeder is a cross-platform aggregator. It is written by , an employee of Cincom in their language Cincom Smalltalk.Like other RSS aggregators it allows you to subscribe to websites to find new content in a push style update instead of manually checking their websites periodically with a web... |
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| Canto Canto (news aggregator) Canto is a terminal based aggregator for online news. It supports all major news formats , as well as importing from and exporting to OPML. The news content is downloadable and as such Canto also has limited podcasting support... |
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| Claws Mail Claws Mail Claws Mail is a free, GTK+-based, open source email and news client. It offers easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH mailbox format and also the Mbox mailbox format via a plugin... |
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| FeedDemon FeedDemon FeedDemon is a free RSS Feed reader for Windows. It was created and developed by Nick Bradbury, author of tools HomeSite, an HTML editor, and TopStyle, a CSS editor. FeedDemon is developed in Delphi. FeedDemon was purchased by NewsGator Technologies in May 2005. It is able to synchronize with... |
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| Feedreader Feedreader (Windows Application) Feedreader is a free RSS and Atom aggregator for Windows. It has a stripped down, though configurable, three-pane interface similar to NetNewsWire on Mac OS X. Recent beta versions use MySQL as database back-end.... |
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| Flock Flock (web browser) Flock was a web browser that specialized in providing social networking and Web 2.0 facilities built into its user interface.Earlier versions of Flock used the Gecko HTML rendering engine by Mozilla.... |
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| FreeRange WebReader FreeRange WebReader FreeRange WebReader is a free RSS based Feed reader and content service for mobile phones and PDAs. It was created and developed by FreeRange Communications and the core technology is incorporated in numerous other product including NewsGator Go!, Attensa Mobile and VersionTracker Mobile products... |
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| Gnus Gnus Gnus is a message reader running under GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It supports reading and composing both news and e-mail.Gnus blurs the distinction between news and e-mail, treating them both as "articles" that come from different sources. News articles are kept separate by group, and e-mail can be... |
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| Hubdog Hubdog Hubdog is an RSS aggregator for Windows Mobile. It was created and developed by Société Radio Numérique Inc. Hubdog combines the functionalities of an RSS reader, a podcast player, a unique search engine, and channels that can be shared among community members and synced with Internet Explorer and... |
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| IBM Lotus Notes | ||||||||
| Internet Explorer Internet Explorer Windows Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year... |
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| iTunes ITunes iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.... |
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| K-Meleon K-Meleon K-Meleon is a web browser for the Microsoft Windows platform. Based on the same Gecko layout engine as Mozilla Firefox, K-Meleon uses native Windows application programming interface to create the user interface, instead of using Mozilla's cross-platform XML User Interface Language layer, and as... |
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| Kazehakase Kazehakase Kazehakase is a web browser for Unix-like operating systems that uses the GTK+ libraries. Kazehakase embeds the Gecko layout engine as well as GTK+ WebKit. However, the author also plans to add the ability to switch between additional different rendering engines... |
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| Liferea Liferea Liferea is an abbreviation for Linux Feed Reader, a news aggregator for online news feeds. It supports the major feed formats including RSS/RDF and Atom and can import and export subscription lists in OPML format... |
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| Mail Mail (application) Mail is an email program included with Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system. Originally developed by NeXT as NeXTMail, a part of their NeXTSTEP operating system, it was adapted, following Apple's acquisition of NeXT, to become OS X's Mail application.Mail uses the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols,... |
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| Maxthon Maxthon Maxthon is a free web browser for Microsoft Windows. The latest release, Maxthon 3, supports both the Trident and the WebKit rendering engines.... |
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| MediaMonkey MediaMonkey MediaMonkey is a proprietary digital media player and media library application developed by Ventis Media Inc., for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems. By using plugins, it can be extended to handle video and other media formats as well.MediaMonkey is available in a... |
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| Microsoft Office Outlook | ||||||||
| Mindity Mindity Mindity was a RSS Feed reader for Windows based on Microsoft .NET with many social networking functions. It was a personalized newsfeed service that serves a community of web users by enabling them to explore the RSS space on a single platform across a variety of feed formats... |
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| Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. , Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 25% of worldwide usage share of web browsers... |
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| Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser... |
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| NetNewsWire NetNewsWire NetNewsWire is a news aggregator for Mac OS X and iOS, and was one of the first desktop RSS readers on any platform.- History :NetNewsWire was developed by Brent and Sheila Simmons for their company Ranchero Software. It was introduced on July 12, 2002, with NetNewsWire Lite, a free version missing... |
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| Netscape Browser Netscape Browser Netscape Browser is the name of a proprietary Windows web browser published by AOL, but developed by Mercurial Communications. It is the eighth major release in name of the Netscape series of browsers, originally produced by the defunct Netscape Communications Corporation.While Netscape Browser's... |
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| Netscape Navigator 9 Netscape Navigator 9 Netscape Navigator 9 is a web browser produced by the Netscape Communications division of parent AOL, first announced on January 23, 2007. After AOL outsourced the development of Netscape Browser 8 to Mercurial Communications in 2004, Netscape Navigator 9 marked the first Netscape browser to be... |
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| NewsAccess NewsAccess NewsAccess is a free news aggregator for Mac OS X. Like other major news aggregators it uses the standard three-paned interface similar to Apple Mail or Outlook Express. It is developed by Earthlink as part of its Total Access software suite... |
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| NewsBreak | ||||||||
| NewsFire NewsFire NewsFire is an RSS newsreader developed by David Watanabe for Mac OS X. It supports Atom, RSS, and Podcasting. NewsFire features groups, labels, smart groups, search, and integration with iTunes, Spotlight, and weblog editors... |
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| OmniWeb OmniWeb OmniWeb is a proprietary Internet web browser developed and marketed by The Omni Group. It is available exclusively for Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system... |
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| Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail is a donationware , proprietary, email client that is developed and maintained by David Harris and his team. It was originally released in 1990 for internal and external mail on Netware networks with MS-DOS clients, and was subsequently ported to Microsoft Windows... |
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| Rhythmbox Rhythmbox Rhythmbox is an audio player that plays and helps organize digital music. Originally inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. However, Rhythmbox functions on desktop environments other than GNOME.-Music... |
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| RSS Bandit RSS Bandit RSS Bandit is an open source RSS/Atom aggregator based on the Microsoft .NET framework. It was originally released as a code sample in a series of articles the Extreme XML column written by Dare Obasanjo on MSDN in 2003. The articles were and . A number of readers of the article liked the product... |
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| RSSOwl RSSOwl RSSOwl is a news aggregator for RSS and Atom News feeds. It is written in Java, and is built on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform which uses SWT as a widget toolkit to allow it to fit in with the look and feel of different operating systems while remaining cross-platform... |
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| Safari Safari (web browser) 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 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... |
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| Sage Sage (Mozilla Firefox extension) Sage is a lightweight RSS and atom feed aggregator extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. The extension was developed by Peter Andrews and Erik Arvidsson. The current stable release of Sage is version 1.4.12, released on June 16, 2011.... |
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| SeaMonkey SeaMonkey SeaMonkey is a free and open source cross-platform Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code... Mail & Newsgroups |
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| SE-RssTools SE-RssTools SE-RssTools is a free portable Feed reader and RSS editor for Windows with RSS, RDF, Atom and iTunes Podcast feed formats support.SE-RssTools lets to read, search and manage RSS feeds or create RSS feeds without knowledge of XML format and structure.... |
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| Shiira Shiira Shiira is an open source web browser for the Mac OS X operating system. According to its website, the goal of Shiira was "to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari". Shiira uses WebKit for rendering and scripting.Shiira Project was led by Makoto Kinoshita. The latest release... |
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| Sleipnir Sleipnir (web browser) Sleipnir is a tabbed web browser developed by Fenrir Inc. The browser is known for its high level of user customization and is one of the few browsers to still support Windows 98... |
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| Snarfer Snarfer Snarfer is a free RSS feed reader produced by Snarfware, LLC. It was created and developed by James Holderness , William Templeton, and Kirk Colvin... |
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| Songbird Songbird (software) Songbird is a free and open source software audio player and web browser, with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."... |
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| Winamp Winamp Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.Winamp... |
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| Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail is a free of charge email client from Microsoft's Windows Live set of products. It is intended to be a successor for Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows Mail on Windows Vista... |
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| YeahReader YeahReader YeahReader is a free RSS Feed reader for Windows. It was created and developed by Yeah Software, a small division of Extralabs Software. YeahReader is developed in Visual Basic 6. It is available for the Windows platform.-External links:***... |
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| Zimbra Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a groupware product created by Zimbra, Inc., located in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was purchased by Yahoo! in September 2007, and subsequently purchased by VMware on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The software consists of both client and server components... |
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| Client | Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... |
Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... |
Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... |
BSD | Solaris | Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Windows Mobile is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft that was used in smartphones and Pocket PCs, but by 2011 was rarely supplied on new phones. The last version is "Windows Mobile 6.5.5"; it is superseded by Windows Phone, which does not run Windows Mobile software.Windows Mobile is... |
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Web feed and protocol support
| Client | feed URI scheme | RSS 0.91 RSS (file format) RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format... |
RSS 1.0 RSS (file format) RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format... |
RSS 2.0 RSS (file format) RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format... |
RSS enclosure RSS enclosure RSS enclosures are a way of attaching multimedia content to RSS feeds by providing the URL of a file associated with an entry, such as an MP3 file to a music recommendation or a photo to a diary entry. Unlike e-mail attachments, enclosures are merely hyperlinks to files, the actual file data is not... |
MRSS Media RSS Media RSS is an RSS extension used for syndicating multimedia files in RSS feeds. It was designed in 2004 by Yahoo! and the Media RSS community, and adds several enhancements to RSS enclosures... |
ATOM Atom (standard) The name Atom applies to a pair of related standards. The Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for web feeds, while the Atom Publishing Protocol is a simple HTTP-based protocol for creating and updating web resources.Web feeds allow software programs to check for updates published on a... |
other format | IPv6 IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6 is a version of the Internet Protocol . It is designed to succeed the Internet Protocol version 4... |
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| AOL Explorer AOL Explorer AOL Explorer, previously known as AOL Browser, is a graphical web browser based on the Microsoft Trident layout engine and was released by AOL. In July 2005, AOL launched AOL Explorer as a free download and as an optional download with AIM version 5.9. AOL Explorer supports tabbed... |
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| Avant Avant Browser Avant Browser is a freeware web browser from a Chinese programmer named Anderson Che, which unites the Trident layout engine built into Windows with an interface intended to be more feature-rich, flexible and ergonomic than Microsoft's Internet Explorer . It runs on Windows 2000 and above,... |
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| BlogBridge BlogBridge BlogBridge is an open source Java-based feed aggregator. It is described on the BlogBridge web site as "a powerful blog and feed reader". BlogBridge is aimed for those people who are subscribed to many feeds, including journalists, PR professionals and OPML enthusiasts.Developing team consists of a... |
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| BottomFeeder BottomFeeder BottomFeeder is a cross-platform aggregator. It is written by , an employee of Cincom in their language Cincom Smalltalk.Like other RSS aggregators it allows you to subscribe to websites to find new content in a push style update instead of manually checking their websites periodically with a web... |
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| Canto Canto (news aggregator) Canto is a terminal based aggregator for online news. It supports all major news formats , as well as importing from and exporting to OPML. The news content is downloadable and as such Canto also has limited podcasting support... |
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| Claws Mail Claws Mail Claws Mail is a free, GTK+-based, open source email and news client. It offers easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH mailbox format and also the Mbox mailbox format via a plugin... |
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| FeedDemon FeedDemon FeedDemon is a free RSS Feed reader for Windows. It was created and developed by Nick Bradbury, author of tools HomeSite, an HTML editor, and TopStyle, a CSS editor. FeedDemon is developed in Delphi. FeedDemon was purchased by NewsGator Technologies in May 2005. It is able to synchronize with... |
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| Feedreader Feedreader (Windows Application) Feedreader is a free RSS and Atom aggregator for Windows. It has a stripped down, though configurable, three-pane interface similar to NetNewsWire on Mac OS X. Recent beta versions use MySQL as database back-end.... |
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| Flock Flock (web browser) Flock was a web browser that specialized in providing social networking and Web 2.0 facilities built into its user interface.Earlier versions of Flock used the Gecko HTML rendering engine by Mozilla.... |
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| FreeRange WebReader FreeRange WebReader FreeRange WebReader is a free RSS based Feed reader and content service for mobile phones and PDAs. It was created and developed by FreeRange Communications and the core technology is incorporated in numerous other product including NewsGator Go!, Attensa Mobile and VersionTracker Mobile products... |
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| Gnus Gnus Gnus is a message reader running under GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It supports reading and composing both news and e-mail.Gnus blurs the distinction between news and e-mail, treating them both as "articles" that come from different sources. News articles are kept separate by group, and e-mail can be... |
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| Hubdog Hubdog Hubdog is an RSS aggregator for Windows Mobile. It was created and developed by Société Radio Numérique Inc. Hubdog combines the functionalities of an RSS reader, a podcast player, a unique search engine, and channels that can be shared among community members and synced with Internet Explorer and... |
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| Internet Explorer Internet Explorer Windows Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year... |
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| iTunes ITunes iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.... |
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| K-Meleon K-Meleon K-Meleon is a web browser for the Microsoft Windows platform. Based on the same Gecko layout engine as Mozilla Firefox, K-Meleon uses native Windows application programming interface to create the user interface, instead of using Mozilla's cross-platform XML User Interface Language layer, and as... |
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| Kazehakase Kazehakase Kazehakase is a web browser for Unix-like operating systems that uses the GTK+ libraries. Kazehakase embeds the Gecko layout engine as well as GTK+ WebKit. However, the author also plans to add the ability to switch between additional different rendering engines... |
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| Liferea Liferea Liferea is an abbreviation for Linux Feed Reader, a news aggregator for online news feeds. It supports the major feed formats including RSS/RDF and Atom and can import and export subscription lists in OPML format... |
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| Mail Mail (application) Mail is an email program included with Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system. Originally developed by NeXT as NeXTMail, a part of their NeXTSTEP operating system, it was adapted, following Apple's acquisition of NeXT, to become OS X's Mail application.Mail uses the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols,... |
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| Maxthon Maxthon Maxthon is a free web browser for Microsoft Windows. The latest release, Maxthon 3, supports both the Trident and the WebKit rendering engines.... |
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| MediaMonkey MediaMonkey MediaMonkey is a proprietary digital media player and media library application developed by Ventis Media Inc., for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems. By using plugins, it can be extended to handle video and other media formats as well.MediaMonkey is available in a... |
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| Mindity Mindity Mindity was a RSS Feed reader for Windows based on Microsoft .NET with many social networking functions. It was a personalized newsfeed service that serves a community of web users by enabling them to explore the RSS space on a single platform across a variety of feed formats... |
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| Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. , Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 25% of worldwide usage share of web browsers... |
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| Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser... |
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| NetNewsWire NetNewsWire NetNewsWire is a news aggregator for Mac OS X and iOS, and was one of the first desktop RSS readers on any platform.- History :NetNewsWire was developed by Brent and Sheila Simmons for their company Ranchero Software. It was introduced on July 12, 2002, with NetNewsWire Lite, a free version missing... |
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| Netscape Browser Netscape Browser Netscape Browser is the name of a proprietary Windows web browser published by AOL, but developed by Mercurial Communications. It is the eighth major release in name of the Netscape series of browsers, originally produced by the defunct Netscape Communications Corporation.While Netscape Browser's... |
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| Netscape Navigator 9 Netscape Navigator 9 Netscape Navigator 9 is a web browser produced by the Netscape Communications division of parent AOL, first announced on January 23, 2007. After AOL outsourced the development of Netscape Browser 8 to Mercurial Communications in 2004, Netscape Navigator 9 marked the first Netscape browser to be... |
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| NewsAccess NewsAccess NewsAccess is a free news aggregator for Mac OS X. Like other major news aggregators it uses the standard three-paned interface similar to Apple Mail or Outlook Express. It is developed by Earthlink as part of its Total Access software suite... |
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| NewsFire NewsFire NewsFire is an RSS newsreader developed by David Watanabe for Mac OS X. It supports Atom, RSS, and Podcasting. NewsFire features groups, labels, smart groups, search, and integration with iTunes, Spotlight, and weblog editors... |
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| OmniWeb OmniWeb OmniWeb is a proprietary Internet web browser developed and marketed by The Omni Group. It is available exclusively for Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system... |
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| Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail is a donationware , proprietary, email client that is developed and maintained by David Harris and his team. It was originally released in 1990 for internal and external mail on Netware networks with MS-DOS clients, and was subsequently ported to Microsoft Windows... |
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| Rhythmbox Rhythmbox Rhythmbox is an audio player that plays and helps organize digital music. Originally inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. However, Rhythmbox functions on desktop environments other than GNOME.-Music... |
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| RSS Bandit RSS Bandit RSS Bandit is an open source RSS/Atom aggregator based on the Microsoft .NET framework. It was originally released as a code sample in a series of articles the Extreme XML column written by Dare Obasanjo on MSDN in 2003. The articles were and . A number of readers of the article liked the product... |
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| RSSOwl RSSOwl RSSOwl is a news aggregator for RSS and Atom News feeds. It is written in Java, and is built on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform which uses SWT as a widget toolkit to allow it to fit in with the look and feel of different operating systems while remaining cross-platform... |
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| Safari Safari (web browser) 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 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... |
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| Sage Sage (Mozilla Firefox extension) Sage is a lightweight RSS and atom feed aggregator extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. The extension was developed by Peter Andrews and Erik Arvidsson. The current stable release of Sage is version 1.4.12, released on June 16, 2011.... |
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| SeaMonkey SeaMonkey SeaMonkey is a free and open source cross-platform Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code... Mail & Newsgroups |
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| Songbird Songbird (software) Songbird is a free and open source software audio player and web browser, with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."... |
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| Shiira Shiira Shiira is an open source web browser for the Mac OS X operating system. According to its website, the goal of Shiira was "to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari". Shiira uses WebKit for rendering and scripting.Shiira Project was led by Makoto Kinoshita. The latest release... |
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| Sleipnir Sleipnir (web browser) Sleipnir is a tabbed web browser developed by Fenrir Inc. The browser is known for its high level of user customization and is one of the few browsers to still support Windows 98... |
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| Snarfer Snarfer Snarfer is a free RSS feed reader produced by Snarfware, LLC. It was created and developed by James Holderness , William Templeton, and Kirk Colvin... |
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| Winamp Winamp Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.Winamp... |
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| Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail is a free of charge email client from Microsoft's Windows Live set of products. It is intended to be a successor for Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows Mail on Windows Vista... |
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| Zimbra Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a groupware product created by Zimbra, Inc., located in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was purchased by Yahoo! in September 2007, and subsequently purchased by VMware on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The software consists of both client and server components... |
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| Client | feed URI scheme | RSS 0.91 RSS (file format) RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format... |
RSS 1.0 RSS (file format) RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format... |
RSS 2.0 RSS (file format) RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format... |
RSS enclosure RSS enclosure RSS enclosures are a way of attaching multimedia content to RSS feeds by providing the URL of a file associated with an entry, such as an MP3 file to a music recommendation or a photo to a diary entry. Unlike e-mail attachments, enclosures are merely hyperlinks to files, the actual file data is not... |
MRSS Media RSS Media RSS is an RSS extension used for syndicating multimedia files in RSS feeds. It was designed in 2004 by Yahoo! and the Media RSS community, and adds several enhancements to RSS enclosures... |
ATOM Atom (standard) The name Atom applies to a pair of related standards. The Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for web feeds, while the Atom Publishing Protocol is a simple HTTP-based protocol for creating and updating web resources.Web feeds allow software programs to check for updates published on a... |
other standard | IPv6 IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6 is a version of the Internet Protocol . It is designed to succeed the Internet Protocol version 4... |
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Interface and notes
Web browserWeb browser
A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...
s and Internet suite
Internet suite
An Internet suite is an Internet-related software suite. Internet suites usually include a web browser, e-mail client , download manager, HTML editor, and an IRC client....
s have for browser plugin a N/A, because they don't need it.
| Client | Pop-up | Tray notification | Browser plugin | E-mail E-mail Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the... |
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| Akregator | (integration with konqueror Konqueror Not to be confused with the Conqueror web browser.Konqueror is a web browser and file manager that provides file-viewer functionality for file systems such as local files, files on a remote ftp server and files in a disk image. It is a core part of the KDE desktop environment... ) |
KDE KDE KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems... |
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| Amarok | KDE KDE KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems... |
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| AOL Explorer AOL Explorer AOL Explorer, previously known as AOL Browser, is a graphical web browser based on the Microsoft Trident layout engine and was released by AOL. In July 2005, AOL launched AOL Explorer as a free download and as an optional download with AIM version 5.9. AOL Explorer supports tabbed... |
Feed support is available in Internet Explorer 7 Internet Explorer 7 Windows Internet Explorer 7 is a web browser released by Microsoft in October 2006. Internet Explorer 7 is part of a long line of versions of Internet Explorer and was the first major update to the browser in more than 5 years... |
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| Avant Avant Browser Avant Browser is a freeware web browser from a Chinese programmer named Anderson Che, which unites the Trident layout engine built into Windows with an interface intended to be more feature-rich, flexible and ergonomic than Microsoft's Internet Explorer . It runs on Windows 2000 and above,... |
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| BlogBridge BlogBridge BlogBridge is an open source Java-based feed aggregator. It is described on the BlogBridge web site as "a powerful blog and feed reader". BlogBridge is aimed for those people who are subscribed to many feeds, including journalists, PR professionals and OPML enthusiasts.Developing team consists of a... |
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| BottomFeeder BottomFeeder BottomFeeder is a cross-platform aggregator. It is written by , an employee of Cincom in their language Cincom Smalltalk.Like other RSS aggregators it allows you to subscribe to websites to find new content in a push style update instead of manually checking their websites periodically with a web... |
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| Canto Canto (news aggregator) Canto is a terminal based aggregator for online news. It supports all major news formats , as well as importing from and exporting to OPML. The news content is downloadable and as such Canto also has limited podcasting support... |
Ncurses Ncurses ncurses is a programming library that provides an API which allows the programmer to write text user interfaces in a terminal-independent manner. It is a toolkit for developing "GUI-like" application software that runs under a terminal emulator... /console based reader |
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| Claws Mail Claws Mail Claws Mail is a free, GTK+-based, open source email and news client. It offers easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH mailbox format and also the Mbox mailbox format via a plugin... |
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| FeedDemon FeedDemon FeedDemon is a free RSS Feed reader for Windows. It was created and developed by Nick Bradbury, author of tools HomeSite, an HTML editor, and TopStyle, a CSS editor. FeedDemon is developed in Delphi. FeedDemon was purchased by NewsGator Technologies in May 2005. It is able to synchronize with... |
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| Feedreader Feedreader (Windows Application) Feedreader is a free RSS and Atom aggregator for Windows. It has a stripped down, though configurable, three-pane interface similar to NetNewsWire on Mac OS X. Recent beta versions use MySQL as database back-end.... |
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| Flock Flock (web browser) Flock was a web browser that specialized in providing social networking and Web 2.0 facilities built into its user interface.Earlier versions of Flock used the Gecko HTML rendering engine by Mozilla.... |
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| FreeRange WebReader FreeRange WebReader FreeRange WebReader is a free RSS based Feed reader and content service for mobile phones and PDAs. It was created and developed by FreeRange Communications and the core technology is incorporated in numerous other product including NewsGator Go!, Attensa Mobile and VersionTracker Mobile products... |
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| Gnus Gnus Gnus is a message reader running under GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It supports reading and composing both news and e-mail.Gnus blurs the distinction between news and e-mail, treating them both as "articles" that come from different sources. News articles are kept separate by group, and e-mail can be... |
Emacs Emacs Emacs is a class of text editors, usually characterized by their extensibility. GNU Emacs has over 1,000 commands. It also allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work.Development began in the mid-1970s and continues actively... -based mail and news client |
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| Hubdog Hubdog Hubdog is an RSS aggregator for Windows Mobile. It was created and developed by Société Radio Numérique Inc. Hubdog combines the functionalities of an RSS reader, a podcast player, a unique search engine, and channels that can be shared among community members and synced with Internet Explorer and... |
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| IBM Lotus Notes | Studio Blog Reader is one RSS reader application for IBM Lotus Notes; Notes version 8.x introduced a native RSS reader | |||||||
| Internet Explorer Internet Explorer Windows Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year... |
Feed support is available in Internet Explorer 7 Internet Explorer 7 Windows Internet Explorer 7 is a web browser released by Microsoft in October 2006. Internet Explorer 7 is part of a long line of versions of Internet Explorer and was the first major update to the browser in more than 5 years... |
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| iTunes ITunes iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.... |
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| K-Meleon K-Meleon K-Meleon is a web browser for the Microsoft Windows platform. Based on the same Gecko layout engine as Mozilla Firefox, K-Meleon uses native Windows application programming interface to create the user interface, instead of using Mozilla's cross-platform XML User Interface Language layer, and as... |
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| Kazehakase Kazehakase Kazehakase is a web browser for Unix-like operating systems that uses the GTK+ libraries. Kazehakase embeds the Gecko layout engine as well as GTK+ WebKit. However, the author also plans to add the ability to switch between additional different rendering engines... |
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| Liferea Liferea Liferea is an abbreviation for Linux Feed Reader, a news aggregator for online news feeds. It supports the major feed formats including RSS/RDF and Atom and can import and export subscription lists in OPML format... |
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| Mail Mail (application) Mail is an email program included with Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system. Originally developed by NeXT as NeXTMail, a part of their NeXTSTEP operating system, it was adapted, following Apple's acquisition of NeXT, to become OS X's Mail application.Mail uses the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols,... |
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| Maxthon Maxthon Maxthon is a free web browser for Microsoft Windows. The latest release, Maxthon 3, supports both the Trident and the WebKit rendering engines.... |
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| MediaMonkey MediaMonkey MediaMonkey is a proprietary digital media player and media library application developed by Ventis Media Inc., for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems. By using plugins, it can be extended to handle video and other media formats as well.MediaMonkey is available in a... |
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| Microsoft Office Outlook | Feed support is available in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 | |||||||
| Mindity Mindity Mindity was a RSS Feed reader for Windows based on Microsoft .NET with many social networking functions. It was a personalized newsfeed service that serves a community of web users by enabling them to explore the RSS space on a single platform across a variety of feed formats... |
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| Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. , Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 25% of worldwide usage share of web browsers... |
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| Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser... |
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| NetNewsWire NetNewsWire NetNewsWire is a news aggregator for Mac OS X and iOS, and was one of the first desktop RSS readers on any platform.- History :NetNewsWire was developed by Brent and Sheila Simmons for their company Ranchero Software. It was introduced on July 12, 2002, with NetNewsWire Lite, a free version missing... |
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| Netscape Browser Netscape Browser Netscape Browser is the name of a proprietary Windows web browser published by AOL, but developed by Mercurial Communications. It is the eighth major release in name of the Netscape series of browsers, originally produced by the defunct Netscape Communications Corporation.While Netscape Browser's... |
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| Netscape Navigator 9 Netscape Navigator 9 Netscape Navigator 9 is a web browser produced by the Netscape Communications division of parent AOL, first announced on January 23, 2007. After AOL outsourced the development of Netscape Browser 8 to Mercurial Communications in 2004, Netscape Navigator 9 marked the first Netscape browser to be... |
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| NewsAccess NewsAccess NewsAccess is a free news aggregator for Mac OS X. Like other major news aggregators it uses the standard three-paned interface similar to Apple Mail or Outlook Express. It is developed by Earthlink as part of its Total Access software suite... |
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| NewsFire NewsFire NewsFire is an RSS newsreader developed by David Watanabe for Mac OS X. It supports Atom, RSS, and Podcasting. NewsFire features groups, labels, smart groups, search, and integration with iTunes, Spotlight, and weblog editors... |
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| OmniWeb OmniWeb OmniWeb is a proprietary Internet web browser developed and marketed by The Omni Group. It is available exclusively for Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system... |
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| Opera Mail | (integration with Opera (web browser) Opera (web browser) Opera is a web browser and Internet suite developed by Opera Software with over 200 million users worldwide. The browser handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, chatting on IRC, downloading files via BitTorrent,... ) |
Part of the Opera web browser; support for feeds since Opera 8.0 | ||||||
| Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail is a donationware , proprietary, email client that is developed and maintained by David Harris and his team. It was originally released in 1990 for internal and external mail on Netware networks with MS-DOS clients, and was subsequently ported to Microsoft Windows... |
Pegasus Mail can convert RSS feeds to e-mails via free add-ons | |||||||
| Rhythmbox Rhythmbox Rhythmbox is an audio player that plays and helps organize digital music. Originally inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. However, Rhythmbox functions on desktop environments other than GNOME.-Music... |
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| RSS Bandit RSS Bandit RSS Bandit is an open source RSS/Atom aggregator based on the Microsoft .NET framework. It was originally released as a code sample in a series of articles the Extreme XML column written by Dare Obasanjo on MSDN in 2003. The articles were and . A number of readers of the article liked the product... |
.NET Framework .NET Framework The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability... based |
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| RSSOwl RSSOwl RSSOwl is a news aggregator for RSS and Atom News feeds. It is written in Java, and is built on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform which uses SWT as a widget toolkit to allow it to fit in with the look and feel of different operating systems while remaining cross-platform... |
Google Reader synchronization | |||||||
| Safari Safari (web browser) 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 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... |
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| Sage Sage (Mozilla Firefox extension) Sage is a lightweight RSS and atom feed aggregator extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. The extension was developed by Peter Andrews and Erik Arvidsson. The current stable release of Sage is version 1.4.12, released on June 16, 2011.... |
a Firefox extension | |||||||
| SeaMonkey SeaMonkey SeaMonkey is a free and open source cross-platform Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code... Mail & Newsgroups |
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| Songbird Songbird (software) Songbird is a free and open source software audio player and web browser, with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."... |
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| Shiira Shiira Shiira is an open source web browser for the Mac OS X operating system. According to its website, the goal of Shiira was "to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari". Shiira uses WebKit for rendering and scripting.Shiira Project was led by Makoto Kinoshita. The latest release... |
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| Sleipnir Sleipnir (web browser) Sleipnir is a tabbed web browser developed by Fenrir Inc. The browser is known for its high level of user customization and is one of the few browsers to still support Windows 98... |
Feed support is available in Internet Explorer 7 Internet Explorer 7 Windows Internet Explorer 7 is a web browser released by Microsoft in October 2006. Internet Explorer 7 is part of a long line of versions of Internet Explorer and was the first major update to the browser in more than 5 years... |
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| Snarfer Snarfer Snarfer is a free RSS feed reader produced by Snarfware, LLC. It was created and developed by James Holderness , William Templeton, and Kirk Colvin... |
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| The Bat | rss2mail or rss2pop3 plugin needed | |||||||
| Winamp Winamp Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.Winamp... |
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| Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail is a free of charge email client from Microsoft's Windows Live set of products. It is intended to be a successor for Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows Mail on Windows Vista... |
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| Zimbra Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a groupware product created by Zimbra, Inc., located in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was purchased by Yahoo! in September 2007, and subsequently purchased by VMware on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The software consists of both client and server components... |
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| Client | Pop-up | Tray notification | Browser plugin | E-mail E-mail Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the... |
"newspaper"-like | Media aggregator | Notes |
See also
- Web syndicationWeb syndicationWeb syndication is a form of syndication in which website material is made available to multiple other sites. Most commonly, web syndication refers to making web feeds available from a site in order to provide other people with a summary or update of the website's recently added content...
- Comparison of e-mail clientsComparison of e-mail clientsThe following tables compare general and technical features of a number of email client programs. Please see the individual products articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up to date.-General:...
- Comparison of web browsersComparison of web browsersThe following tables compare general and technical information for a number of web browsers. Please see the individual products' articles for further information.-Historical web browsers:...