Lunascape
Web browser
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Lunascape |
| logo | Lunascape-logo.png |
| screenshot | |
| caption | Screenshot of the Lunascape browser |
| developer | Lunascape Corporation |
| released | |
| discontinued | no |
| latest release version | {{Multiple releases |
| branch1 | Android |
| version1 | |
| date1 | |
| branch2 | iOS, iPadOS, visionOS |
| version2 | |
| date2 | |
| branch3 | macOS (Apple silicon only) |
| version3 | |
| date3 | |
| branch4 | Windows |
| version4 | |
| date4 | |
| latest preview version | |
| latest preview date | |
| operating system | macOS, iOS, iPadOS, visionOS, Windows, Android |
| engine | Gecko, Trident, WebKit |
| language count | 28 |
| language footnote | |
| language | American English, British English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish |
| genre | Web browser |
| license | Freeware |
| :: |
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Lunascape is a web browser developed by Lunascape Corporation in Tokyo, Japan. It is unusual in that it contains three rendering engines: Gecko (used in Mozilla Firefox), WebKit (used in Apple's Safari), and Trident (used in Microsoft Internet Explorer). The user can switch between layout engines seamlessly.
Lunascape is available for Windows and Android platforms, as well as macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS.
History
Lunascape was released in October 2001 while the founders were in college. As the browser became popular, Hidekazu Kondo established the Lunascape Corporation in August 2004 while pursuing a PhD. Hidekazu Kondo then became the CEO of Lunascape Corporation. Additionally, Lunascape was selected as an "Exploratory Software Project" commissioned by the Japanese government.
The company established a subsidiary in the United States in June 2008 based in Sunnyvale, California.
Lunascape introduced its browser internationally in December 2008.
On April 6, 2017, Lunascape Corporation was acquired by
On November 30, 2019, the Lunascape web browser business was acquired by G.U.Labs, with Hidekazu Kondo becoming the representative director and CEO of G.U.Labs.
On December 1, 2019, Lunascape Corporation was dissolved and merged into Media Do.
References
References
- "Download Lunascape". Lunascape.tv.
- Needleman, Rafe. (2008-11-24). "Have it all: Lunascape, the browser with three engines | Webware - CNET". News.cnet.com.
- (2008-11-25). "Lunascape Browser: Firefox, Internet Explorer And Chrome All-In-One". TechCrunch.
- "Lunascape Founders". Lunascape.tv.
- "CNET Japan". V.japan.cnet.com.
- (2008-06-17). "Lunascape opens subsidiary in Silicon Valley". Asiajin.
- (2004-08-26). "Lunascape Corporate Info". Lunascape.tv.
- (2017-04-06). "Lunascape株式会社の株式取得（子会社化）に関するお知らせ".
- (2019-12-02). "ウェブブラウザ事業買収のお知らせ". G.U. Labs Co., LTD..
- 株式会社インプレス. (2019-12-19). "最古参タブブラウザ「Lunascape」生まれ変わる 〜ソニーとG.U.LabsがWeb 3.0世代の新型を共同開発".
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