Ramblings, opinions, and general meanderings from the Deep South

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

To the Moon Alice via Browser

Downloaded and am working with a new browser named Lunascape6 (Orion). It has three browser engines: Gecko (used in Mozilla Firefox), Webkit (used in Apple Safari and Google Chrome), and Trident (used in Microsoft Internet Explorer). You can switch between layout engines seamlessly and even without restarting the browser just by clicking a button at the end of the address bar. I read the Lunascape EULA and the privacy statement. Other than the fact that I might be using their logo without permission the rest is the standard blah, blah. If they fuss about the logo usage here I'll delete them completely. Anyone so paranoid they wouldn't take free publicity has to be insane, right? Initially, my reaction is this may end up in my permalink list which is located in the darker gray area to the right.

Presently I am running the WebKit (Google Chrome, Apple Safari) engine and learning the ins and outs of setup. It's not easy. Navigation is not straightforward like Chrome or Firefox. The bookmarks (favorites) were imported from Firefox. Intended to write this post with it, but switched to Chrome. Having some UIC (user in chair) problems with tabs settings. Download at your own risk and absolutely don't whine here if you screw something up. It seems to be running fine for EdC who recommended it. He's right about one thing for sure, it's FAST! Will report on it again in a few days. In the meantime I'll try to see if my use of their logo is illegal or not. So far I think I like it and it'll just take time to get used to setup navigation. Be sure and download the full version in order to have all the browser engines. This is not for use on an older machine. Please make sure you have at least a P4 class CPU and plenty of RAM. They tell you all about requirements at the above linked page.

"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery."
~Harold Wilson

1 comment:

Ashby Rhett Culpepper III said...

If you really can change engines on the fly, how could a web designer afford to do with out this for previewing pages they are building???