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Apple Safari
Apple Safari launched in January 2003, built on the open-source WebKit rendering engine, which Apple had forked from the KHTML engine originally developed for the Linux-based KDE desktop environment. Safari became the default and, for many years, exclusive pre-installed browser on Apple's Mac computers and later on iPhone and iPad following the 2007 launch of iOS, giving it guaranteed default-browser status across the entirety of Apple's hardware ecosystem. The WebKit engine that powers Safari has had an outsized influence on mobile web standards specifically, since Apple's strict App Store policies have historically required all third-party iOS browsers, including Chrome and Firefox on iPhone, to use Apple's WebKit engine under the hood rather than their own rendering engines. Apple Safari's combination of its guaranteed default status across every Apple device and its WebKit engine's outsized influence over mobile web standards has made it one of the most structurally significant browsers in the industry.
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Google Chrome
Google Chrome launched in September 2008, built on the open-source Chromium project and Google's own V8 JavaScript engine, which was specifically designed to execute JavaScript significantly faster than the engines used by rival browsers at the time. Chrome's multi-process architecture, running each tab as a separate process rather than a single shared process, was a genuinely novel design choice for a mainstream browser in 2008, meaning a crash in one tab wouldn't take down the entire browser window. Chrome grew to become the dominant web browser worldwide by market share within a few years of launch, and its open-source Chromium engine has since become the foundation for numerous other browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Opera, and Brave. Google Chrome's combination of its pioneering multi-process tab architecture and its Chromium engine becoming the foundation for much of the modern browser market has made it one of the most influential pieces of software of the internet era.
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