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Triple-Engine Browser Released As Alpha

Posted by kdawson on from the three-engines-no-waiting dept.

jcasman passes along a heads-up on Lunascape, a Japanese browser company that is releasing its first English version of its Lunascape 5 triple-engine browser. It's for XP and Vista only. There are reviews up at CNET, OStatic (quoted below), and Lifehacker. Both the reviews and comments point out that, in its current alpha state, the browser is buggy and not very fast; but it might be one to watch. "How many web browsers do you run? If you're like me, you regularly use Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome and Safari. Each of those browsers, of course, has its own underlying rendering engine: Gecko (in Firefox), Trident (in Internet Explorer), and Webkit (in Chrome and Safari). Today, a Japanese startup called Lunascape has released an alpha version of its Lunascape browser ... that allows you to switch between all three of these prominent rendering engines. The company says that the Japanese version of Lunascape has been downloaded 10 million times and touts it as the fastest browser available."

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  1. Re:Lunatic Japan by Markvs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, but turducken is tasty! But only in it's cooked state. Perhaps Luna will be tasty too, after it's been prepared and cooked and is actually ready to be served.

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  2. Big in Japan by jaymzter · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, just like "Citizen Dick is really big in Japan too.

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  3. Re:Nope. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    This isn't really useful as a diagnostic browser.

    I believe that the goal was to facilitate scan-line interleaving: every other line of a given website is rendered by a different engine. It is the latest effort in standards-based browsing. The Acid Test winds up looking like a bunch of cloned Neanderthal pirates that use solid state disks to subvert RIAA intelligence.

    Was this not the obvious use of such technology?

    Seriously.

  4. Re:Web development by CarpetShark · · Score: 3, Funny

    I would think a Linux version would be unlikely due to the trident component.

    Trident? So it's BSD-only then?

  5. Re:Lunatic Japan.. smacks of CO-FUCKING- by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Nah, twitter is incapable of typing the 's' in Microsoft.

  6. Useless by lord_sarpedon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Three engines, for the closest browse yet...

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  7. Re:Lunatic Japan by amRadioHed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Geez, Kim Jong Il is more cruel than I thought.

    Wait, which Korea are we talking about?

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