NetFront Browser is a mobile browser developed by Access Company of

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

. The first version shipped in 1995. They currently have several browser variants, both

Chromium Chromium is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Cr and atomic number 24. It is the first element in Group 6 element, group 6. It is a steely-grey, Luster (mineralogy), lustrous, hard, and brittle transition metal. Chromium ...

-based and

WebKit WebKit is a browser engine primarily used in Apple's Safari web browser, as well as all web browsers on iOS and iPadOS. WebKit is also used by the PlayStation consoles starting with the PS3, the Tizen mobile operating systems, the Amazon K ...

-based. Over its lifetime, various versions of NetFront have been deployed on

mobile phone A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that allows users to make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while moving within a designated telephone service area, unlike fixed-location phones ( landline phones). This rad ...

multifunction printer An MFP (multi-function product/printer/peripheral), multi-functional, all-in-one (AIO), or multi-function device (MFD), is an office machine which incorporates the functionality of multiple devices in one, so as to have a smaller footprint in a ...

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es, PDAs, web phones,

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s, e-mail terminals, automobile

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systems, and other device types. This has included

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consoles and several

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consoles.

Platforms

For

Pocket PC A Pocket PC (P/PC, PPC) is a class of personal digital assistant (PDA) that runs the Windows Mobile operating system, which is based on Windows Embedded Compact, Windows CE/Windows Embedded Compact, and that has some of the abilities of modern ...

devices, the browser converted

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tables to a vertical display, eliminating the need to scroll horizontally. The engine also was used in Japanese and European versions of the

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browser and the Japanese PSBBN expansion for

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. The

Nintendo 3DS The is a foldable dual-screen handheld game console produced by Nintendo. Announced in March 2010 as the successor to the Nintendo DS, the console was released originally on February 26, 2011 and went through various revisions in its lifetime, ...

Internet browser uses the WebKit-based NetFront Browser NX according to the documentation included with the browser. The

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Internet web browser received a major upgrade with

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version 4.10, upgrading to a custom version of the NetFront browser, adding limited HTML5 support and improved JavaScript speeds. The

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console is also equipped with NetFront NX, and GPL source code is available. The

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uses NetFront as its web browser. Nintendo's latest console, the

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, is also using NetFront NX.

Performance

Netfront 3.5 had an Acid3 score of 11/100 and NetFront Browser NX v1.0 had an Acid3 score of 92/100. File:Acid3n35.png, Acid3 in NetFront 3.5
(PlayStation Portable) File:Nintendo_3DS_Acid3_test_results.jpg, Nintendo 3DS Acid3 test results

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Netfront Internet browser 1995 software Android (operating system) software Cross-platform software Mobile web browsers Palm OS software Pocket PC software Software based on WebKit Symbian software Windows Mobile software

Platforms

Performance

See also

References