Lunascape

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Lunascape
Developer(s) Lunascape Corporation
Initial releaseOctober 2001;23 years ago (2001-10)
Stable release
Android13.3.0 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 14 June 2023
iOS13.3.3 [2]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 28 August 2023
macOS0.27.0 [3]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 20 June 2023
Windows0.27.0 [3]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 20 June 2023
Engine Gecko, Trident, WebKit
Operating system macOS, iOS, Windows, Android
Available in28 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   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

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.

Contents

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]

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