New Browser

[Dave]

For PC users there is a new browser on the market which claims to be the worlds first triple engine browser. What this means is that you can have the best features, performance, and speed of Windows Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari all in one browser and can view any website in an optimal way without a need to open another browser.

It is massive in Japan and starting to make an impact around the rest of the world.

http://www.lunascape.tv/

[mikeyred]

ummm! whats your opinion of it Dave - good, bad or indifferent?

[Dave]

ummm! whats your opinion of it Dave - good, bad or indifferent?

Don't know to be honest Mike. I have only got a NetBook running Windows XP and have not had time to download Lunascape for testing. We are all Mac here.

Apparently it already has more than 10 million users in Japan which is quite impressive.

Advantages I see are because it's a triple engine browser you should be able to see how your site looks in Firefox, Safari and IE without having to download these browsers. Should help during development of sites. Also it's meant to be very quick loading/browsing and for all you twitter fans it has a plug-in for that.

[NicJ]

Sounds great, pity it's windows only but I will download it on to my PC later.

Looks like it will try to follow the latest versions of each browser platform so could be a good way of testing sites in IE 8 without actually having to download it - but it also means you will still have to test in previous versions especially of IE

[Chrisg]

Hi Guys

Just downloaded it and tried swapping around the browsers and it froze. Cannot see that it is any different to IE and appears to be alot slower than all of the others.

I may be wrong but my opinion is I will stick to IE & Firefox.

PS... I have just downloaded the Page Speed Plug-In for Firefox from Google this brings up some interesting faults on my home page and some handy hints to speed up your pages. My take on the Google blurb is that this will also help your Google rankings (it can't hurt!). This may help some of you who haveproblems with your loading speed.