Midori is a lightweight yet feature-rich web browser that handles all the latest web technologies (HTML 5, CSS 3, etc.), offers a lot of handy functions and options, and is based on the acknowledged Webkit engine that also powers the ubiquitous Google Chrome web browser. The fact that it’s based on the Webkit engine means that it pretty much offers all the same advantages and benefits that made Google Chrome the most used web browser in the world. So if you feel like using a browser that closely resembles Chrome’s functionality and set of features, yet for whatever reason the actual Chrome is not an option, then Midori will represent a great choice.
The use of Webkit also makes Midori a really fast web browser that loads any web pages with the best possible speeds. Though packed with all the features and functions needed from a modern web browser, including advanced options like a “developer’s console”, Midori is also quite lightweight and easy-to-use.
Midori is also open source, which means that its source code can be freely downloaded and modified by anyone interested in further developing and improving this browser.
Another remarkable benefit of this browser is the fact that it takes your privacy very seriously providing built-in privacy tools like script disabling, third-party cookie blocking, automatic history cleaner, ad blocker, cookie manager, and so on. Support for extensions is also available.
To sum it all up, Midori is a nice web browser that leaves no room for criticism. It offers all the features and functions one would expect from a contemporary web browser and it manages to be easy-to-use, lightweight, and fast at the same time.
v0.5 [Apr 5, 2013]
- Use PNG icon instead of SVG in set_status
- We must not pass a Cancellable to FaviconDatabase.get_favicon_pixbuf
- Retain spelling suggestion menu items from WebKit
- Properly guard usage of gtk3 get_style_context
- Mimic the look of Granite.DynamicNotebook when compiled with –enable-granite.
- Fix X11 lib underlink in midori-core
- Fix bookmarkbar bookmark click not opening links
- Use sanitized app URI as wm_classname/ StartupWMClass
- Make trunk build with WebKit2 again
- Fix for incorrect tstamp for background tabs
- Don't declare sorting doubles are nullable and print values when database tracing is enabled
- Correctly apply saved entry state and treat urlbar as a regular editable item
- Add missing conditional includes for granite flavoured build
- Open URIs dragged on tab label or new tab button
- Small adblock bugfixes
- Work around GTK3's hard-coded minimum stackswitcher button width
- Fix building with mingw packages from fedora 18
- Set page title as basis for print filename
- Rename notes inline
- Use EXTRA_WARNINGS option when building for windows
- Drop forgotten clutter init and obsolete header declarations
- Rework history-step handling and make it work again
- Port Tabby to DatabaseStatement API
- Replace bookmark stracing with generic profiling in Midori.Database
- Port autocompleter test to async job
- Finishing touches for Adblock
- Add filters and defaults
- Implement and use ContextAction.escaped
- printf URI in show_message_dialog for download error
- Improve docs and GIR annotations for KatzeItem, KatzeArray, and MidoriWebSettings
- Drop redundant TabNew from compact menu and put button in Tab Panel
- Fix loading file pages
- Implement Send Page Link by Email
- Use GtkStackSwitcher with GTK >= 3.10
- Implements context popup menu on menu entries of bookmark bar and bookmark menu.
- Fix building with newer mingw versions
- Display locationbar suggestions in the correct order
- Don't bother adblocking internal pages and favicons
- Don't use trailing comma on last list element in Adblock tests
- Rewrite Adblock more modularly, add Whitelist support
- Add support of DragonFlyBSD
- Change tooltips of Reload and ReloadStop actions while shift modifier is pressed
- Implement Midori.Database.attach method
- Allow :memory: as folder to make schema detection work
- More robust app/ profile creation
- Add helper callbacks to modify bookmark's tree store with unneeded access to bookmarks db
- Implement more flexible fallback behavior for Cookie Permissions
