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Thanks to many positive feedback on the 6.5 beta. We’ve decided to move the schedule forward and to release Lunascape 6.4.1, which includes most of the new features introduced in the beta, today.

As many of you know, one of the new features is Online Bookmarks that allow you to bring your bookmarks with your iPhone or iPad. You can get access to your Online Bookmarks via iLunascape anytime. Also, you can sync your Online Bookmarks with the Firefox and from both ends using the Firefox Sync or the Lunascape’s Online Sync account. You can learn more on what you can do with the Online Bookmarks in the old entry.

The next major change is a much-anticipated upgrade of the Gecko engine to the Firefox 3.6 series. The 6.4.1 has Gecko version 1.9.2.13 that corresponds to the Firefox version 3.6.13. As a result, we’re temporary closing the ‘choose your own Gecko’ project on the Luna Labs and recommend users to use the upgraded Gecko (Firefox 3.6 series) with Lunascape.

Another change is in the Lunascape Settings dialogue. Some of the options are shuffled around and re-categorized in such a way that hopefully makes more sense to users, for now…. We plan to refresh the appearance and layout of the dialogue in a future release, so your feedback are welcome.

Last but not least, the Lunascape 6.4.1 is one of the first official release that includes translations made by volunteers. Yes, that’s right. Your contributions have made this version more complete! Thank you so much to those volunteers who has made it happen. We’ll create a thank you page on our Web site and list names of the contributors to show our appreciation. Translations made through the Lunascape Localizer will be kept reflected in every releases of Lunascape (the official global version and Europe language versions) from now on. If interested, please register yourself at the Lunascape Localizer.

We’ve also released an update of iLunascape Lite for iPhone (ver. 1.1.2) today. It has the Firefox Sync 1.6 support, so incompatibility between different versions is addressed, and you should have no issue accessing to your Online Bookmarks.

Hope you’ll enjoy this new release of Lunascape 6.4.1 and iLunascape Lite for iPhone 1.1.2.

Lunascape ver. 6.3.4 is now available to download. We strongly recommend to upgrade your Lunascape to this latest version because it includes Gecko 3.5.15 that has fixed a critical security issue reported by Firefox earlier this fall. You can also plug in Gecko 3.6.12 available from the Luna Lab to the Lunascape if you’d prefer it.

We’ve also fixed two bugs that has been reported by several users. Now, the Google Toolbar will be displayed on toolbar without any errors. Also, if you’ve been having trouble with your font size, it will stay fixed according to your settings in Lunascape with Trident engine.

This release would be the last minor updates in the Lunascape ver. 6.3.x., and we’ll be now focusing more on the 6.5 Beta and new releases.

We’re releasing a Lunascape ver.6.3. today! The significant change is our installer, which now consolidates different languages versions into one. You can select your language from the drop-down box at the very beginning of the installation wizard.

You’ll see this dialogue only if you’re newly installing the Lunascape ver.6.3, or upgrading from ver.6.2 to ver.6.3 with different language selection. For more information, you can check the FAQ - Installer looks different in v.6.3. What’s going on? in the Lunascape Help.

Another nice change in this release is localized Search Engines. As mentioned at the blog entry for ver.6.2. announcement, the Lunascape now comes with tailored Search Engines for each languages as a default, making users’ daily browser operations easier. Of cause, you can still add or delete the Search Engines for your convenience, but this is another ‘productivity boost’ features that we offer following after the Highlighted Search.

We have worked on 108 bug fixes with this version, plus renewed our download icon . Moreover, it comes with an upgraded version of Gecko 3.5.11. with an option to swap it to Gecko 3.6.8. (download available from the Luna Lab).

For more details, please refer to the release note. We hope you’ll enjoy it!!

We have another announcement coming up tomorrow, so please stay tuned

I feel like we’ve been releasing minor version updates of v.6.1.x pretty often nowadays and hope this is not driving you too crazy… In case if you’re wondering, we will likely to have two more minor updates before going into v.6.2. And today, we’re releasing ver.6.1.4 that includes some urgent bug fixes.

The major bug fix is resolving an Gecko engine specific issue, which pressing the backspace key during text inserts in a form acts as “back” to go back to a previous page in the browser. Some of you might have encountered this issue and got annoyed by it every time your typed-in form gets disappeared using Gecko engine. But it is now over, thank you for your patients waiting for the fix!

Another bug fix is resolving an issue of discoloration of words in the smart engine selection button at particular environments. Believe it or not, I’ve had this issue with my environments and not noticed it is a bug until I’ve upgraded one of my testing environments. So, I bet some of you may not know this is a bug either. To find out what’s been wrong, please see the following images. Who has a word in purple?

Our focus now is to resolve as many open bugs as possible and to optimize speed and process before we move forward to ver. 6.2.x. We hope these upgrades will improve your daily experience of using the Lunascape browser!

Ver. 6.1.4. Release Note

Hi guys,

In the midst of winter Olympics, we just released updated version 6.0.3. (Now we can sit back and enjoy the last few days of the games!)

We have updated Gecko engine to the latest revision 1.9.1.8, which is the same as Firefox 3.5.8. As you can see from Mozilla’s release note here, this includes several security and stability fix and we strongly encourage you to update yours soon.

We have also fixed some bugs such as memory issues wrt favorites, WebKit font issues, etc. Please check our release note for details of what changed.

We are also working towards a larger update, so please stay tuned.