Lunascape

This article is about the web browser. For the musical band, see Lunascape (band). For the area of the lunar landscape, see moonscape.

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).^[5][6] The user can switch between layout engines seamlessly.

Lunascape

Orion Phoebe Screenshot of the Lunascape browser
Developer(s)	Lunascape Corporation
Initial release	October 2001; 23 years ago (2001-10)
Stable release	Android 13.3.0[1]  / 14 June 2023 iOS 13.3.3[2]  / 28 August 2023 macOS 0.27.0[3]  / 20 June 2023 Windows 0.27.0[3]  / 20 June 2023
Engine	Gecko, Trident, WebKit
Operating system	macOS, iOS, Windows, Android
Available in	28 languages[4]
List of languages 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
Type	Web browser
License	Freeware
Website	www.lunascape.org

Lunascape is available for Windows and Android platforms, as well as for iPad and iPhone.

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.^[7]

The company established a subsidiary in the United States in June 2008 based in Sunnyvale, California.^[8][9][10]

Lunascape introduced its browser internationally in December 2008.

On April 6, 2017 Lunascape Corporation was acquired by Media Do [ja] ^[11]

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.^[12]

On December 1, 2019 Lunascape Corporation was dissolved and merged into Media Do.^[13]

References

1. "Android: Version 13.3.0; Updated on Jun 14, 2023". 14 June 2023. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
2. "iOS: Version History: 13.3.3; 28 Aug 2023". 28 August 2023. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
3. "Phoebe v0.27.0 Latest". 20 June 2023. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
4. "Download Lunascape". Lunascape.tv. Archived from the original on 2012-03-31. Retrieved 2012-03-20.
5. Needleman, Rafe (2008-11-24). "Have it all: Lunascape, the browser with three engines | Webware - CNET". News.cnet.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-25. Retrieved 2012-03-20.
6. "Lunascape Browser: Firefox, Internet Explorer And Chrome All-In-One". TechCrunch. 2008-11-25. Retrieved 2012-03-20.
7. "Lunascape Founders". Lunascape.tv. Archived from the original on 2012-03-03. Retrieved 2012-03-20.
8. "CNET Japan". V.japan.cnet.com. Retrieved 2012-03-20.
9. "Lunascape opens subsidiary in Silicon Valley". Asiajin. 2008-06-17. Archived from the original on 2012-03-02. Retrieved 2012-03-20.
10. "Lunascape Corporate Info". Lunascape.tv. 2004-08-26. Archived from the original on 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2012-03-20.
11. "Lunascape株式会社の株式取得（子会社化）に関するお知らせ". 株式会社メディアドゥ. 2017-04-06. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
12. "ウェブブラウザ事業買収のお知らせ" [Notice of Acquisition of Web Browser Business] (Press release) (in Japanese). G.U. Labs Co., LTD. 2019-12-02. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
13. 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". 仮想通貨 Watch (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-08-18.

External links

• Lunascape Corporation official website