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{{short description|Web browser designed for use on mobile devices}}
[[File:Wikipedia on iPhone.jpg|thumb|200x200px240x240px|A [[Wikipedia]] page on an Apple [[iPhone 2G]] displayed on the [[Safari (web browser)|Safari web browser]].]]▼
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A '''mobile browser''' is a [[web browser]] designed for use on a [[mobile device]] such as a [[mobile phone]] or, [[Personal digital assistant|PDA]], [[smartphone]], or [[tablet computer|tablet]]. Mobile browsers are optimized to display Webweb content most effectively on small screens on portable devices. MobileSome browsermobile softwarebrowsers, mustespecially older versions, are designed to be small and efficient to accommodate the low memory capacity and low- bandwidth of certain wireless handheld devices. Traditional smaller [[Feature phone|feature phonesphone]]s use stripped-down mobile web browsers; however, most current [[Smartphone|smartphones]] have full-fledged browsers that can handle the latest web technologies, such as [[CSS 3]], [[JavaScript]], and [[Ajax (programming)|Ajax]].▼
▲[[File:Wikipedia on iPhone.jpg|thumb|200x200px|A [[Wikipedia]] page on an Apple [[iPhone 2G]] displayed on the [[Safari (web browser)|Safari web browser]].]]
▲A '''mobile browser''' is a [[web browser]] designed for use on a [[mobile device]] such as a [[mobile phone]] or [[Personal digital assistant|PDA]]. Mobile browsers are optimized to display Web content most effectively on small screens on portable devices. Mobile browser software must be small and efficient to accommodate the low memory capacity and low-bandwidth of wireless handheld devices. Traditional smaller [[Feature phone|feature phones]] use stripped-down mobile web browsers; however, most current [[Smartphone|smartphones]] have full-fledged browsers that can handle the latest web technologies, such as [[CSS 3]], [[JavaScript]], and [[Ajax (programming)|Ajax]].
 
Websites designed to be usable in mobile browsers may be collectively referred to as the [[mobile web]]. Today, over 75% of websites are "mobile friendly"{{cn|date=December 2022}}, by detecting when a request comes from a mobile device and automatically creating a "mobile" version of the page, designed to fit the device's screen and be usable with a touch interface, for example the [[Wikipedia]] website (see illustration).
 
==Underlying technology==
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WAP 2.0 specifies XHTML Mobile Profile plus WAP CSS, subsets of the W3C's standard XHTML and CSS with minor mobile extensions.
 
[[Smartphone]] mobile browsers are full-featured Web browsers capable of HTML, [[CSS]], [[ECMAScript]], as well as mobile technologies such as WML, i-mode HTML, or cHTML.
To accommodate small screens, they use [[Post-WIMP]] interfaces.
 
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| [[WebKit]]
| [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]] and [[GNU Lesser General Public License|LGPL]]
|Browser included with EMUI version 910.0 to version 1314.02 and Harmony OS version 2.0 to version 4.02.
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! {{rh}} | [[Android (operating system)|Android]] browser
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| [[WebKit]]
|[[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]
| Installed on all [[Bada (operating system)|Bada]]
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! {{rh}} | [[Firefox for Mobile]]
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| [[WebKit]]
| [[Java ME]], [[BlackBerry]]
| [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]
| Discontinued December 2011
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!{{rh}} | [[DuckDuckGo Private Browser|DuckDuckGo]]
| DuckDuckGo
| Blink, WebKit (iOS)
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! {{rh}} | [[JioBrowser| JioSphere]]
| [[Jio]]
| [[WebKit]], Blink
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| [[Android (operating system)|Android]], [[iOS]]
| [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]
| Freeware
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| [[Android (operating system)|Android]]
| [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]] [[freeware]]
| Built on Firefox code
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| [[WebKit]], [[MSHTML]]
| [[Windows]], [[Mac OS X]], [[Android (operating system)|Android]], [[iOS]]
| [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]] [[freeware]]
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| [[Android (operating system)|Android]], [[iOS]]
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| Supports Flash and Ajax. As of {{As of|2010|Dec|December|bare=yes}}, it no longer supports Symbian OS or Windows Mobile
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! {{rh}} | [[Sleipnir (web browser)|Sleipnir]]
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| [[Java ME]]
| Proprietary freeware
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| UC Mobile
| U3 (based on [[WebKit]])
| [[S60 (software platform)|S60]], [[Java ME]], [[Android (operating system)|Android]], [[iOS]], [[Windows Mobile]], [[Bada (operating system)|Bada]]
| Proprietary freeware
| Proxy-rendering in Java and Symbian. U3 engine in Android.
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| [[WebKit]]
| [[iOS]]
| Proprietary freeware
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**Squeezr!Beta &mdash; The last functional Squeezr!Beta page is dated 13 February 2010.<ref>{{cite web |last=Brenecki |first=Adam |title=squeezr!beta |publisher=squeezr.net |year=2010 |url=http://squeezr.net |url-status = dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100213160249/http://squeezr.net/ |archive-date=2010-02-13}}</ref> As of 28 August 2010, Squeezr!Beta had closed;<ref>{{cite web |last=Brenecki |first=Adam |title=squeezr!beta is closed :( |publisher=squeezr.net |year=2010 |url=http://squeezr.net |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100828124900/http://squeezr.net/ |archive-date=2010-08-28}}</ref> the last page of Squeezr as authored by Adam Brenecki is dated 2 January 2012.<ref>{{cite web |last=Brenecki |first=Adam |title=squeezr!beta is closed :( |publisher=squeezr.net |url=http://squeezr.net |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120102143147/http://squeezr.net/ |archive-date=2012-01-02}}</ref> Since 2013, squeezr.net redirected to squeezr.it, which is a different service, and not related to Adam Brenecki.
* Microsoft [[Bing (search engine)|Bing]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://m.bing.com|title=Bing|website=m.bing.com|access-date=4 May 2018|df=dmy-all}}</ref> &mdash; the option to enable or disable "Optimize web pages for your phone" in "Search settings" is not visible in Bing's mobile version as of March 2018. (The mobile version can be accessed with a phone or tablet, or when setting a web browser to identify itself with a mobile-based [[user agent]] string.)
* MobileLeap Transcoding Engine, by MobileLeap Inc. As of March 2018, web page source code includes JavaScript from the domain parking company [[Sedo]]<small>)</small><ref>mlvb.net{{Dead link|date=March 2018|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> &mdash; The site wouldn'twould not allow entry without a cookie, so a typical crawler would be redirected to mlvb's cookiecheck page, the last snapshot of which is from 12 October 2017.
* Mowser (mowser.com)<ref>{{cite web |title=About |work=Mowser |publisher=afilias.tech |year=2011 |url=http://mowser.com/about.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205113812/http://mowser.com/about.php |archive-date=2017-02-05}}</ref> &mdash; Alternately marketed with the mowser.mobi domain name, which is now a permanent deadlink. The last snapshot of a working page is dated 22 September 2017.<ref>{{cite web |title=mowser.mobi |publisher=Mowzer |year=2011 |url=http://mowser.com |url-status = dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170922072607/http://mowser.com/ |archive-date=2017-09-22}}</ref> As of 30 March 2018, the site has been shut down.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mowser.com has been shut down! |publisher=Afilias Plc |location=Republic of Ireland |year=2017 |url=http://mowser.com |access-date=2018-03-31}}</ref>
 
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*[[Usage share of web browsers]]
*[[User agent]]
*[[Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers]]
 
==References==
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