Midori (web browser)

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Midori
Developer(s) Christian Dywan, [1] Nancy Runge, Astian Foundation
Initial release16 December 2007 (2007-12-16) [2]
Stable release(s)
Android3.5.9 [3]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 18 November 2024
Operating system Linux, Android, Windows, macOS
Platform IA-32, AMD64, x86
Available in30 languages [6]
Type Web browser
License LGPL-2.1-or-later
Website astian.org/en/midori-browser/

Midori (Japanese : 緑, romanized: midori, lit.  'green') is a free and open-source web browser. In 2019, the Midori project was acquired by the Astian Foundation. [7] [8] After the acquisition, the project became a derivative of the Firefox browser. [9]

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History

Midori began as a lightweight [10] [11] web browser using the WebKitGTK rendering engine [10] and the GTK widget toolkit. Midori was part of the Xfce desktop environment's Goodies collection of applications [12] and followed the Xfce principle of "making the most out of available resources". [13] It was the default browser in the SliTaz Linux distribution, [14] Trisquel Mini, Artix Linux, old versions of Raspbian, and wattOS in its "R5 release". [15] It was the default browser in elementary OS "Freya" and "Luna", [16] and Bodhi Linux. [17] Midori was part of the standard Raspbian distribution for the Raspberry Pi ARMv6-based computer, while Dillo and NetSurf are also in the menu.

Midori passed the standard compliance Acid3 test. [18] In March 2014, Midori scored 405/555 on the HTML5 test. [19] In July 2015, Midori 0.5 on Windows 8 scored 325/555 on the updated HTML5 test. [20]

Features

Midori featured:

Reception

The former Midori was recommended by Lifehacker due to its simplicity. [29] The major points for criticism are the absence of the process isolation, the low number of available extensions [30] and occasional crashes.[ citation needed ]

Nick Veitch from TechRadar included Midori 0.2.2 in his 2010 list of the eight best web browsers for Linux. At that time he rated it as "5/10" and concluded, "while it does perform reasonably well all-round, there is no compelling reason to choose this browser over the default Gnome browser, Epiphany, or indeed any of the bigger boys". [31]

Himanshu Arora of Computerworld reviewed Midori 0.5.4 in November 2013 and praised the browser's speed and uncluttered interface, while additionally underlining the private browsing which uses a separate launch icon and displays the details of this mode on the home tab. [28]

Victor Clarke from Gigaom praised the former Midori's minimalism in 2014 and stated that it will "satisfy your humble needs without slowing down your PC", despite stressing the lack of advanced functionality. [32]

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  1. ↑ Dywan, Christian. "About : Christian Dywan (kalikiana)". Two toasts. Retrieved 11 April 2021. Cris likes to cook. Add to that a passion for Chinese and Japanese tea. These days, kalikiana focuses on hacking on snapcraft, but is still fondly looking back to Midori, ElementaryOS and Ubuntu Touch.
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  5. ↑ Kalikiana (31 October 2018). "All for One, One for All". Midori Blog. Archived from the original on 28 July 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
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  10. 1 2 3 Nick Veitch. "Midori and Epiphany: But which is the best Linux web browser of all?". Archived from the original on 29 April 2013.
  11. ↑ "Best Internet Browser – The Show Goes On!". 14 September 2009. Archived from the original on 26 August 2012.
  12. ↑ "projects:applications:start [Xfce Goodies]". goodies.xfce.org. Archived from the original on 21 October 2017. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
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  14. 1 2 3 Spotlight on Linux: SliTaz GNU/Linux 3.0 Archived 15 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine . Linux Journal
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  27. 1 2 Web-browser Midori Adds Unity Support and Neat 'Next Page' Feature. OMG! Ubuntu!
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