Lunascape Alpha Release Bridges Gap Between Browsers

The alpha version of the free Lunascape browser has been released.  Claiming to be the "fastest browser ever", even faster than Google Chrome and Firefox 3, Lunascape is the first triple-engine web browser.  What that means is that the three most popular web rendering engines--Firefox's Gecko, IE's Trident, and Safari's Webkit--are all running under the hood.  And it can switch automatically between them.

Not only is it insanely fast according to the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark test, but it doesn't give up features to be so: standard features out of the box include RSS and podcast services, mouse gestures, tabbed browsing, multiple search engines, auto-saving functions, and compatibility with many of the plugins for both IE and Firefox.

Bookmarks, settings, RSS feeds and more are handled via a sidebar that provides pop-out menus when you hover over them.  Another interesting feature is that the tab bar uses whatever space isn't taken up by tab headers to scroll RSS headlines from sites like the New York Times, CNN, Digg, and more.

You can change almost anything about the browser, including skins and buttons.  Several stock skins are included (including "Simple" and "Cool", resembling Safari and IE respectively) and many more are available at Lunascape's Skin Center.

It's Windows only, but if you want to take it for a test drive you can download the alpha here.

--Aric A.