Lunascape is a web browser

Web browser

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 developed by Lunascape Corporation in Tokyo, Japan. It is unique in that it contains three rendering engines: Gecko

Gecko (layout engine)

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 (used in Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox

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), WebKit

WebKit

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 (used in Apple Safari

Safari (web browser)

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 and Google Chrome

Google Chrome

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), and Trident

Trident (layout engine)

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 (used in Microsoft

Microsoft

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 Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer

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). The user can switch between layout engines seamlessly.

History

Lunascape browser was originally published in August 2001 while the founders were still in college. As the browser became popular, Hidekazu Kondo established Lunascape Corporation in August 2004 while pursuing a PhD and became the CEO. Lunascape was selected as "Exploratory Software Project" commissioned by Japanese government.

It branched out to the United States

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 in June 2008 and is currently based in Sunnyvale, California

Sunnyvale, California

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.

Lunascape internationally introduced its browser in December 2008.

External links

• Lunascape Inc. - Official English website
• Lunascape Corporation - Official Japanese website