Ever wonder when a particular version of a web browser was released? No? Ok... well, I did. I decided to put together a list of various browsers, versions, and the release timeframe for each.

The list doesn't contain all browsers out there, or even every browser version. I'm working on getting more data, but some of the stuff is hard to find; mainly the older info. Between OCC's news, my own site, Google, and Wikipedia, I've managed to get a hell of a lot of information. If anyone wants to help out and fill in some of the blanks, I'd be thankful.


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1994
*Sept 1994 - Windows NT 3.51 Released
Netscape 1.00B1 (Oct)
Netscape 1.00 (Dec)

1995
Netscape 1.10B1 (Mar)
Netscape 1.10 (April)
Netscape 1.20B1 (June)
*June 1995 - Windows NT 3.51 Released
Netscape 1.20 (July)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 1.0 (Aug)
*Aug 1995 - Windows 95 Released
Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0B1 (Oct)
Netscape 2.00B1 (Oct)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0 (Nov)
Netscape 2.00B3 (Dec)

1996
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0A1 (Mar)
Netscape 2.00 (Mar)
Netscape 3.00B1 (April)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0B1 (May)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0B2 (July)
Netscape 3.00B5 (July)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 (Aug)
Netscape 3.00B7 (Aug)
Netscape 3.00 (Aug)
*Aug 1996 - Windows NT 4.0 Released
Opera 2.10B1 (Sept)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.01 (Oct)
Opera 2.10B3 (Nov)
*Nov 1996 - Windows CE 1.0
Opera 2.10 (Dec)
Netscape 4.00B1 (Dec)

1997
Opera 2.12 (Feb)
Netscape 4.00B2 (Feb)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0B1 (April)
Netscape 4.00B3 (April)
Netscape 4.00B4 (May)
Netscape 4.00B5 (May)
Netscape 4.00 (June)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0B2 (July)
Opera 3.00B1 (Sept)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 (Oct)
Netscape 3.04 (Oct)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 (Nov)
*Nov 1997 - Windows CE 2.0 Released
Opera 3.00B11 (Dec)
Opera 3.00 (Dec)

1998
*Jan 1998 - Mozilla project begins
Opera 3.10 (Feb)
Opera 3.21 (April)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0B1 (Jun)
*June 1998 - Windows 98 Released
Opera 3.50B1 (July)
Netscape 4.50B1 (July)
*July 1998 - Windows CE 2.1 Released
Netscape 4.50B2 (Sept)
Opera 3.50B9
Opera 3.50B10 (Oct)
Netscape 4.50 (Oct)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0B2 (Nov)
Opera 3.50 (Nov)
Netscape 4.08 (Nov)
*Nov 1998 - AOL buys Netscape
Opera 3.51 (Dec)

1999
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 (Mar)
*March 1999 - Windows CE 3.0 Released
*May 1999 - Windows 98SE Released
Opera 3.60 (June)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5B1 (Dec)
Opera 3.61 (Dec)

2000
*Feb 2000 - Windows 2000 Released
Opera 4.00B1 (Mar)
Opera 4.00B2 (April)
Opera 4.00B3 (April)
Netscape 6.00B1 (April)
Opera 4.00B4 (June)
Opera 4.00B5 (June)
Opera 4.00B6 (June)
Opera 4.00 (June)
*June 2000 - Windows ME Released
Opera 4.01 (July)
Netscape 6.0B2 (Aug)
Opera 4.02 (Aug)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 (July)
Netscape 6.00B3 (Oct)
Netscape 6.00 (Nov)
Opera 5.00 (Dec)
Opera 5.01 (Dec)

2001
Opera 5.02 (Jan)
Netscape 6.01 (Feb)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0B1 (Mar)
Opera 5.10 (April)
Opera 5.11 (April)
Netscape 6.10PR1 (June)
Opera 5.12 (June)
Netscape 6.10 (Aug)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 (Oct)
Netscape 6.20 (Oct)
*Oct 2003 - Windows XP Released
Opera 6.00B (Nov)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0SP1 (Sept)
Opera 6.00 (Dec)

2002
Opera 6.01 (Feb)
Netscape 6.2.3 (May)
Netscape 7.00PR1 (May)
Opera 6.02 (May)
Opera 6.03 (May)
Opera 6.04 (June)
Netscape 4.80 (Aug)
Netscape 7.00 (Aug)
Opera 6.005 (Aug)
Mozilla Phoenix (Firefox) 0.1 (Sept)
Mozilla Phoenix (Firefox) 0.2 (Oct)
Opera 7.00B1 (Nov)
Opera 7.00B1b (Nov)
Mozilla 1.2 (Nov)
Mozilla Phoenix (Firefox) 0.3 (Nov)
Opera 7.00B2 (Dec)
Mozilla 1.2.1 (Dec)
Netscape 7.01 (Dec)
Mozilla Phoenix (Firefox) 0.4 (Dec)
*Dec 2002 - Major layoffs at AOL/Netscape

2003
Opera 7.00 (Jan)
Opera 7.01 (Feb)
Opera 7.02 (Feb)
Netscape 7.02 (Feb)
Opera 6.06 (Mar)
Opera 6.06b (Mar)
Opera 7.03 (Mar)
*March 2003 - Windows Server 2003 Released
Opera 7.10B1 (April)
Opera 7.10B2 (April)
Opera 7.10B3 (April)
Opera 7.10 (April)
Opera 7.11 (May)
*May 2003 - Microsoft announces that IE will no longer be shipped as a stand alone browser.
Netscape 7.10 (June)
Mozilla Phoenix (Firefox) 0.5 (June)
Opera 7.20B1 (July)
*July 2003 - AOL cuts Mozilla project off setting the Open Source Project as a Non-Profit Orginization.
Opera 7.20B7 (Sept)
Opera 7.20B13 (Sept)
Opera 7.20 (Sept)
Mozilla 1.4.1 (Oct)
Opera 7.21 (Oct)
Mozilla 1.6A (Nov)
Opera 7.22 (Nov)
Opera 7.23 (Nov)
Mozilla Firebird (Firefox) 0.7 (Dec)

2004
Mozilla 1.6 (Jan)
Mozilla 1.7B (Mar)
Mozilla 1.7RC1 (April)
Opera 7.50B1 (April)
Opera 7.50 (May)
Opera 7.54P6 (May)
Mozilla 1.7RC2 (May)
Mozilla 1.8A1 (May)
Mozilla 1.7RC3 (June)
Mozilla Firefox 0.9RC (June)
Opera 7.51 (June)
Opera 7.52 (July)
Opera 7.53 (July)
Mozilla Firefox 0.9 (Aug)
Mozilla 1.7.2 (Aug)
Mozilla 1.8A3 (Aug)
Opera 7.54 (Aug)
Mozilla 1.8A3 (Aug)
Netscape 7.20 (Aug)
Opera 7.60P1 (Aug)
Mozilla Firefox 1.0PR (Sept)
Mozilla 1.8A4 (Sept)
Mozilla Firefox 1.0RC1 (Oct)
Opera 7.60P2 (Oct)
Mozilla Firefox 1.0 (Nov)
Opera 7.60P3 (Nov)
Opera 7.54u1 (Dec)
Opera 7.60P4 (Dec)
Opera 8.0B1 (Dec)

2005
Opera 7.54u2 (Feb)
Opera 8.00B2 (Feb)
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1 (Feb)
Netscape 8.0B (Mar)
Opera 8.00B3 (Mar)
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2 (Mar)
Mozilla 1.7.6 (Mar)
Opera 8.00P5 (March)
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 (April)
Mozilla 1.7.7 (April)
Opera 8.00 (April)
Opera 8.01P1 (May)
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 (May)
Netscape 8.0 (May)
Netscape 8.0.1 (May)
Opera 8.01 (June)
Netscape 8.0.2 (June)
Opera 8.02 Preview 1 (July)
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5 (July)

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Phoenix .1 - 24-Sep-2002 00:00
Phoenix .2 - 16-Oct-2002 00:33
Phoenix .3 - 08-Nov-2002 01:19
Phoenix .4 - 12-Dec-2002 01:44
Phoenix .5 - 16-Jun-2003 22:53
Firebird .6 - 21-May-2003 15:40 (this is the one I started using! yay!)
Firebird .7 - 19-Dec-2003 22:27

Just in case you didnt know, these are Firefox before the name was officially decided on.

--edit--
Ill work on some more browsers when I get home from school. And for future refrence, these dates were obtained from the Mozilla FTP server.

Hmm... so 0.6 came out before 0.5?

Hmm... sorry, these dates should work out better for you...

Phoenix .1 - 23-Sep-2002
Phoenix .2 - 01-Oct-2002
Phoenix .3 - 14-Oct-2002
Phoenix .4 - 30-Oct-2002
Phoenix .5 - 07-Dec-2002
Firebird .6 - 17-May-2003
Firebird .6.1 - 29-Jul-2003
Firebird .7 - 15-Oct-2003
Firebird .7.1 - 26-Oct-2003
Firefox .8 - 09-Feb-2004
Firefox .9rc - 09-Jun-2004
Firefox .9 - 15-Jun-2004
Firefox .9.1 - 28-Jun-2004
Firefox .9.2 - 08-Jul-2004
Firefox .9.3 - 04-Aug-2004
Firefox .10rc - 12-Sep-2004
Firefox .10 - 14-Sep-2004
Firefox .10.1 - 01-Oct-2004
Firefox 1.0rc1 - 27-Oct-2004
Firefox 1.0rc2 - 05-Nov-2004
Firefox 1.0 - 09-Nov-2004
Firefox 1.0.1 - 26-Feb-2005
Firefox 1.0.2 - 22-Mar-2005
Firefox 1.0.3 - 16-Apr-2005
Firefox 1.0.4 - 11-May-2005

Ok, changed to reflect the day the source code came out for the particular release. Before it was the day the last added language came out, and that would be the reason for the messed up dates.

W3M
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w3m .2.2 - Nov 16, 2001
w3m .2.3.1 - Dec 20, 2001
w3m .2.3.2 - Dec 21, 2001
w3m .2.3 - Dec 20, 2001
w3m .2.4 - Jan 07, 2002
w3m .2.5 - Jan 31, 2002
w3m .2.5.1 - Feb 04, 2002
meh, screw it .::rest of them::.