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A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software application for accessing information on the World Wide Web. Each individual web page, image, video, and resource in general, is identified by a distinct Uniform Resource Locator (URL), enabling browsers to retrieve these resources from a web server and display them on a user's device.
https://screenshots.debian.net/screenshot/firefox-esr https://screenshots.debian.net/screenshot/chromium https://screenshots.debian.net/screenshot/epiphany-browser https://screenshots.debian.net/screenshot/falkon https://screenshots.debian.net/screenshot/netsurf
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Security Updates
There are several web browsers available in Debian. Choosing a browser from the options listed below, pay attention if the package gets security updates.
https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.html#browser-security - 5.2.1.1. Security status of web browsers and their rendering engines in Release Notes for Debian 12 (bookworm)
For general web browser use we recommend Firefox or Chromium. They will be kept up-to-date by rebuilding the current ESR releases for stable.
Browsers using webkit2gtk are covered by security support, applications based on qtwebkit are not.
Graphical browsers
Firefox - Open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation
Chromium - Open source web browser used as a base Google Chrome
GNOME Web - (epiphany-browser package) Simple yet powerful GNOME web browser targeted at non-technical users
https://screenshots.debian.net/package/surf
surf - Simple web browser by suckless designed to open URL from command-line, needs a variable set to run from Wayland DebianBug:1012739
TorBrowser - Firefox-based Web browser aimed at defending against tracking, surveillance, and censorship.
Falkon - (formerly qupzilla) Lightweight web browser based on Chromium
https://screenshots.debian.net/package/qutebrowser
qutebrowser - Keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on ?PyQt5
https://screenshots.debian.net/package/luakit
luakit - Fast and small web browser extensible by Lua
https://screenshots.debian.net/package/dillo
dillo - Small and fast web browser
https://screenshots.debian.net/package/privacybrowser
privacybrowser - Qt ?WebEngine based browser with a focus on privacy and security.
Console
Web browsers that can be used in a terminal emulator environment.
https://screenshots.debian.net/package/edbrowse
edbrowse - Line oriented text-mode editor & browser. Supports HTTP, FTP, scripts, editor, mail client.
https://screenshots.debian.net/package/elinks
elinks - Advanced text-mode WWW browser
https://screenshots.debian.net/package/links
links - Web browser running in text mode
https://screenshots.debian.net/package/links2
links2 - Web browser running in both graphics and text mode
lynx - Classic text-mode web browser with support for Gopher, HTTP, FTP, WAIS, and NNTP protocols
w3m - WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support
Third party browsers
The following web browsers in are not in the Debian repositories, and thus require the use of third party repositories to install them on Debian
Free browsers
Non-Free browsers
Inactive projects
See also
DefaultWebBrowser - Describes how to change the application used to open links.
Search for the web::browser
aptitude search "?tag(web::browser)"
Wiki pages
A list of all wiki pages about web browsers:
CategorySoftware CategoryNetworkApplication CategoryWebBrowser