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Lunascape ver.6.5 Beta is now available for download and to take it out for a spin! This beta 1 gives you a preview of two main features that we’re planning to build in; Online Bookmarks and Quick Dial. Your feedback is indispensable to brush them up and get us ready to finalize the product. We’re planning to release beta 2 before its official release, so please give us as much feedback as you can to improve the quality of our services.

Online Bookmarks

Bookmarks Becomes Portable

This enables you to access to your bookmarks from anywhere with the Internet connection. You can sync Online bookmarks between Firefox and Lunascape browsers, or access it through Apple’s iPhone, iPad(*1) and iPod touch using iLunascape browser on-the-go.

Step 1: Install Lunascape 6.5 Beta

• Download the latest Lunascape 6.5 Beta.

Step 2: Sync or Setup your Online Bookmarks

• From the Menu Bar, go to View > Sidebars > Online Bookmarks and click Settings to create or log into an account. You can view, edit and add Online Bookmarks and sync.

Step 3: Access to your Online Bookmarks

• From iLunascape
  • Tap Bookmarks > Online > Connect to log in and access to your Online Bookmarks.
• From Firefox
  • Use the Firefox Sync to log in and access to your Online Bookmarks.

Tips:

You can …

• Sync your Online Bookmarks from both ends using Firefox Sync account or Online Sync account
  • Log in with your Firefox Sync account if you already have one, or create a new account through Lunascape Online Sync to log in
• Add pages to your Online Bookmarks from;
  • Click [Add] button on the Online Bookmarks Sidebar
  • Drag & drop from the Address bar
• Copy your Favorites lists to Online Bookmarks by drag & drop pages from the Favorites list
  • Existing Favorites and this new Online Bookmarks are two different things
• Edit your Online Bookmarks from Lunascape and/or Firefox browser
  • Online Bookmarks can’t be edited from the current version of iLunascape Lite for iPhone

Quick Dial

Fast Access to Your Favorite Sites

You can now visually manage your favorite sites with Quick Dial. It shows the most visited pages and recently closed tabs, and you can choose and decide what to keep on this view.

Step 1: Launch Lunascape 6.5 Beta

• If you haven’t, download and install the latest Lunascape 6.5 Beta.

Step 2: View your Quick Dial

• From the Menu bar, go to View > Sidebars > Settings and select Quick Dial under the Add-on folder in the Sidebar.

Tips:

You can …

• Lock pages to or delete pages from the Quick Dial view
• Set it as a default page to show when opening a new tab (from Lunascape Settings > General > General Settings, select Open Quick Dial under the Home Page section)
• Set it as a default page to start at Lunascape browser start up (from Lunascape Settings > General > General Settings, select Open Quick Dial under the Startup section)

We hope you’ll like these new features and also try our iLunascape browser for iPhone, iPad(*1) and iPod touch!

*1: For the iLunascape (Web Browser) for iPad, Online Bookmarks will be available from version 1.3.

Hi guys,

Thanks for your patience! We just released Beta version of Lunascape 6.0 in 9 languages other than English.(Chinese - traditional & simplified, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish)

We appreciate that many of you have tried it out even in alpha stage. Now, it’s grown up to Beta - translations are done and many bugs are fixed. We certainly hope that many more people will go for test drive.

Please let us know if you find bugs and mistakes in translation!

Hi guys,

We hope you are enjoying test-drive of our new Lunascape 6.0!

Thanks to your input, we have fixed 57 bugs so far and released it as Beta 2. If you’d like to get the latest, please make sure to download it at our website.

Users of international versions other than English, please wait for a little bit more to get beta version. We are working on the catch-up translation right now.

And please keep giving us feedback so that we can incorporate that into the official release!

Thanks for your help.

The Beta of our global English version browser, Lunascape5 Genesis, was released on February 10th. You can download it at http://www.lunascape.tv. Since the initial launch in late November, we’ve been hard at work improving our state of the art triple-engine technology and taking in useful user feedback along the way on features and functions that are important to them.

What we’ve been hearing time and time again is that people want their browser to enable a rich, interactive experience on the web. As users are increasingly becoming more active on Web 2.0 sites and applications, networking and collaborating with other users in real time, they need their browser to be highly responsive to their actions and commands.

In other words, speed is more essential than ever. In a Web 2.0 world, what’s the best measure for speed? The graph below shows our latest SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark test. You’ll notice we’re still at the front of the race. Lunascape5 has also scored a perfect 100/100 on the Acid3 test, which measures a browser’s compatibility with web standards (such as JavaScript). But why is fast JavaScript execution important? What does that mean to you as a user?

JavaScript is a scripting language used in the development of many websites and web-based applications. As a dynamic language, JavaScript code is highly responsive to user actions in the web interface and is employed at the core of many powerful and dynamic web applications. Do you use Gmail or Google Docs? What about social networking sites like Facebook or video sharing platforms like YouTube? Whenever you type, make updates and changes, interact with others, or even watch video, JavaScript is fundamental to your experience. And when a browser executes JavaScript quickly, that means as a user, you can be more efficient and interact with the social web in a more natural, fluid manner.

Of course, while speed is important, that’s not the only thing we look for in a browser. You can download Lunascape5 Beta at http://www.lunascape.tv and discover all the other cool features we’ve got in store, including three engines ready to power your journey to any destination on the web. Stay tuned for more surprises that are just around the corner.

For more information on the current release, please see the release notes.
Key updates include:
-Lower CPU usage
-Improvements for Gecko, Webkit, and Trident