Web pages can have different appearances in various existing web browsers. The compatibility of web pages or scripts across commonly used browsers is an issue that can be automatically determined with various validation tools. The manual testing of websites with popular rendering engines is still an efficient validation method, but it requires a lot of time.

Fortunatelly, web browsers including more than one rendering engine exist. Lunascape is a fast web browser that allows the automatic switching between three rendering engines: the latest version of Gecko (Firefox engine), Trident (Internet Explorer engine) and WebKit (Safari and Chrome engine).

Every rendering engine is optimized for maximum performance. The browser also offer superior stability with an improved crash protection feature: the user must just close the non-responding tab instead of the main web browser window.

Being available only for Windows operating system, Lunascape allows users to import favorites / bookmarks or layouts from other browsers like Firefox 3.0, Opera, Internet Explorer or a previous version of LunaScape.

Beside features like mouse gestures, plugins support, tabbed browsing, form auto-saver, popup news and other, the functionality of changing rendering engines for the desired web pages comes as a valuable tool for simplifying the developers compatibility measurement tasks as well as for increasing the user accessibility in case of sites that do not have implemented certain standards required by a single rendering engine.

Lunascape browser provides users the possibility to define a default rendering engine that will be available to show all web pages requested in the address bar. For a particular web page the rendering engine can be changed on the fly from the context menu corresponding to its tab. Also, in case of any website, one of the available engines can be automatically set to display the pages included in it.

Lunascape standard functions (available through add-ons in other browsers) and its overall capabilities like increased rendering speed, enhanced accessibility for web pages, multiple styling and customization options makes it a suitable choice for both beginners and advanced Windows users.

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