Celebration of new Firefox 3 launch was held at a hotel in Shinagawa, Tokyo, with over 300 people, Mozilla Japan staff, developers, translators, web designers, engineers, bloggers and others.
The next Firefox 3.1 (planned late 2008) code name was recently named “Shiretoko” after Japan’s national park in Hokkaido.
Following Fenrir’s announcement of internationalizing their Sleipnir browser just a few days ago, now Japan-based Lunascape announced today they opened an office in the USA to promote their web browser of the same name more efficiently overseas.
Lunascape, Inc. with a capital stock of 300,000 USD will be located in Silicon Valley. Founder and CEO Hidekazu Kondo will lead the subsidiary. He will continue to direct operations in Japan.
The Lunascape browser is available in English (version 4.7).
Osaka-based web software company Fenrir announced on their homepage that they officially released the English version 2.7.2 of their Internet browser Sleipnir.
Sleipnir is particularly popular in Japan and according to the press release is localized for users in the USA, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, India, Ireland, South Africa and the UK.
Fenrir says they want to add more languages gradually and hopes to expand their global market share for web browsers by an aggressive internationalization strategy.
The official press release can be found here (in English).