Friday, November 28, 2008

Three on a String



Which is the best browser to surf the Internet, is hardly in accordance with objective criteria to assess. It is more a question of faith, whether you prefer the free Firefox, Internet Explorer or perhaps even Apple's Safari uses. Obviously, however, that with each of the three always on the side faces, which only partially or not at all represented.

The new free browser Lunascape, the same Japanese company that will solve this problem. It combines the three most popular rendering engines Gecko (Firefox), Trident (Internet Explorer) and WebKit (Safari), for the presentation of a site are responsible. If a website does not display correctly, can be done with two mouse clicks to select a different engine. Thus, it remains the user saves, another browser.

Apart from this practical new feature brings Lunascape all the usual functions of the major browsers with. RSS feeds, tabbed browsing, favorites, skins or protection against the complete program crash when a tab has been suspended, make for comfortable surfing.

The developers boast is that Lunascape in the speed test SunSpider JavaScript benchmark of the world's fastest browser is already ten million times downloaded. Directly after the download is the perfect users of the Web browser available, says on the website developer.

The current version 5.0.0, the first of the three engines in one browser united, however, is an alpha version. It is only available for Windows and is sometimes still significant gaps.

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