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Browse (Sugar)

2007 – present Maintained, no longer developed
55

Browser built into the Sugar environment of the OLPC XO educational laptops, first based on Gecko (Hulahop), then on WebKitGTK.

Facts

Developer
One Laptop per Child / Sugar Labs
Website
github.com
Current engines
WebKit (WebKitGTK)
Former engines
Gecko
Platforms
Linux
Details
Sugar (OLPC XO-1 and later); switch from Gecko to WebKit in 2009; last version v208 (Feb. 2024), only minor fixes afterwards (March 2026)
Popularity
55/100 — Estimate: preinstalled on OLPC XO laptops and Sugar; no user figures in the sources

Lineage

Not to be confused with
⚠ Browse (Acorn)

Sources

  1. https://github.com/sugarlabs/browse-activity
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(software)
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/2015/https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/ApplicationsGtk