World’s first Triple Engine Web Browser & Fast too!

Lunascape – Browser: Firefox, Internet Explorer And Chrome All-In-One
Do you use multiple web browsers? Juggling multiple web browsers is not so uncommon to overcome incompatibility and inefficiency of web sites or browsers that are not well optimized to web standards. But it’s not that power users who know how to install and use multiple browsers actually love the hassle at the cost of their precious time.

Lunascape is here for you! For the first time ever, there is a web browser that has integrated the three main browser rendering engines with the ability to switch to the optimal engine automatically.

3x Faster Startup with World’s Fastest JavaScript Execution

With Lunascape 5.0a, we re-designed the fundamental architecture so that each rendering engine is optimized for best possible performance. Among many optimizations, the latest version of Gecko, the heart of Firefox, can be loaded into Lunascape. We refined it with special tweaks that realized the fastest JavaScript execution in the world. It was proven through our and third-parties’ researches that Lunascape flat out beats all other popular web browsers in this field. Enjoy smooth and pleasant Web 2.0 experience with Lunascape.

My initial testing reveals it to be faster than Chrome in rendering.  Pretty similar to Firefox 3.1 Beta.  UI can be intuitive though, I find it bit intrusive and IE like.

Google Chrome with no Ads – BFilter – Move over Privoxy and Admuncher!

We all agree that Google’s new browser, Chrome, is really innovative and quite honestly – fast.  However, as soon as you try it, you remember why you liked your Firefox with Adblock+ extention. The Web is full of intrusive ads, banners and overlays etc. 

In my opinion, inability for Google to not offer offer Adblocking of any form (besides popup blocker) (from initial release) will remain and probably is a strategy to increase revenue to their AdSense stream. (Which is primary source of income for Google Inc.) It could possibly be one of the main reasons to offer a new browser to compliment AdSense + their Google Apps platform. Almost everyone I know that uses Firefox has a Adblock plugin installed.

Don’t get me wrong, I do forsee a plugin coming from the Open Source Chromium.  I love the Chrome UI, fast rendering and not to mention the new Javascript engine.  For short term Ad blockage, I started looking for alternatives and found out:

• Google does not deliver an adblocking plugin for Chrome.
• forget AdMuncher it’s not free.
• forget Privoxy it’s way too complicated
• forget HostsMan it doesn’t work anyway

I strongly recommend BFilter. It’s totally painless to install, no setup required and it works instantly (after adjusting the browser’s proxy settings). Knows a lot of adservers and works like a charm even for Canadian ads. Adding rules is straight forward, as we are used to with AdblockPlus.

As of Sept 20th, The current version of BFilter is 1.1.4 

	Windows 2000, XP, and above
	Windows 95, 98, ME
	Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above (Universal Binary)
	Linux (autopackage, GUI version only)
	Source Code

Initial Configuration

Set your browser’s HTTP proxy to 127.0.0.1, port 8080. Don’t set it for protocols other than HTTP. Read the detailed instructions here.

Set Chrome’s proxy settings to 127.0.0.1 port 8080 (via Options -> Under the Hood -> Change Proxy Settings -> LAN Settings -> Check “Use a proxy server for your LAN”)

In case of Linux, you will have to find a way to autostart BFilter yourself. 

Using AdBlock Plus filter lists

Steve Pellegrin wrote a script to convert AdBlock Plus filter lists to BFilter format. More information here.