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= Lunar Web Browser = The Lunar Web Browser is a freeware, cross-platform web browser developed by Jade Browser Limited, a Company founded by Matthew Gallagher, who was the co-founder of Isis Capital Management and Osiris Capital Partners. Lunar was officially launched on July 1, 2021 and is Chromium-based.

Although Lunar is intended for general users, it is first and foremost targeted towards mobile users in bandwidth constrained areas. In common with Jade Browser Limited's other products, Lunar deploys selective resource proxying, whereby the individual components of a web page are parsed and selected for optimisation on the fly. This creates levels of data saving approaching those of traditional webpage compression techniques, whilst preserving all of the usability and interactivity that is typically lost with traditional approaches.

Lunar converts the great majority of the internet's images into a black and white webp format, thereby creating a data-saving browser that shows the user that it is working. In addition, Lunar optimises other webpage resources into their most efficient formats and blocks advertising and tracking. The net effect of these innovations is that bandwidth usage falls by an average of 70% compared to standard implementations of the Chromium open-source browser (e.g. Chrome, Chromium, Microsoft Edge).

Despite employing a number of proprietary modifications, Lunar retains compatibility with all Chrome extensions and mimics a generic build of Chromium in its user agent string, thereby ensuring maximum compatibility with existing websites.

Jade Browser Limited released a mobile (Android) version to the Google Playstore on July 1, 2021. A Windows version was realeased in the Microsoft Store on July 25, 2021.

History
Vivaldi began as a virtual community website that replaced My Opera, which was shut down by Opera Software in March 2014. Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner was angered by this decision because he believed that this community helped make the Opera web browser what it was. Tetzchner then launched the Vivaldi Community—a virtual community focused on providing registered users with a discussion forum, blogging service, and numerous other practical web services—to make up for My Opera's closure. Later, on January 27, 2015, Vivaldi Technologies launched the first technical preview of the Vivaldi web browser. Its name comes from the Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, which, according to one of its creators, is an easy name to be remembered and understood worldwide.

Market share[edit]
Further information: Usage share of web browsers`

Starting with version 2.10, Vivaldi changed its user agent string to mimic a generic build of Chromium, which results in it not being recorded as a unique browser and causing a decrease in its recorded market share.

Reception[edit]
Ars Technica reviewer Scott Gilbertson wrote about version 1.0 in April 2016. He praised its innovative features, such as its tab handling, while noting that it will most likely remain a niche browser and not see widespread uptake. In October 2018, Gilbertson gave version 2.0 a very positive review and stated that Vivaldi is now his usual browser and that he would be hard put to go back to a browser without its unique features.