Midori ( ja, 緑, midori, translation=green) is a

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. In 2019, the Midori project merged with the Astian Foundation, then has been revamped entirely, switching from

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to using

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History

Before the merge, Midori was a different browser. It was a lightweight web browser, used the

rendering engine and the

GTK GTK (formerly GIMP ToolKit and GTK+) is a free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, allowing both free and propriet ...

widget toolkits. This past Midori was part of the Xfce

desktop environment In computing, a desktop environment (DE) is an implementation of the desktop metaphor made of a bundle of programs running on top of a computer operating system that share a common graphical user interface (GUI), sometimes described as a grap ...

's Goodies component and was once developed to follow the Xfce principle of "making the most out of available resources". It was the default browser in the

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Linux distribution,Spotlight on Linux: SliTaz GNU/Linux 3.0
. Linux Journal

Trisquel Trisquel (full name Trisquel GNU/Linux) is a computer operating system, a Linux distribution, derived from another distribution, Ubuntu. The project aims for a fully free software system without proprietary software or firmware and uses a version ...

Mini,

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, old versions of

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, and wattOS in its "R5 release". It was the default browser in

elementary OS elementary OS is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS. It promotes itself as a "thoughtful, capable, and ethical" replacement to macOS and Windows and has a pay-what-you-want model. The operating system, the desktop environment (called Pa ...

"Freya" and "Luna", and

Bodhi Linux Bodhi Linux is a light-weight Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that uses an Enlightenment DR17-based fork called Moksha window manager. The philosophy for the distribution is to provide a minimal base system so that users can populate it with ...

. It featured: * Support for integration with GTK2Midori Web Browser
. BeginLinux.com and GTK3 *

rendering engine Rendering or image synthesis is the process of generating a photorealistic or non-photorealistic image from a 2D or 3D model by means of a computer program. The resulting image is referred to as the render. Multiple models can be defined ...

* Tabs, windows and session management * Configurable web search engine * User scripts and user styles support * Bookmark management * Customizable and extensible interface * Extension modules can be written in C and

Vala Vala or VALA may refer to: Religion and mythology * Vala (Vedic), a demon or a stone cavern in the Hindu scriptures * Völva, also spelled Vala, a priestess in Norse mythology and Norse paganism Fiction * Vala (Middle-earth), an angelic being in ...

* Support for

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Arch Linux and desktop adventures with the Raspberry Pi
. greenhughes *

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as a default search engine *

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s support * Smart bookmarks * Extensions **

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Form Form is the shape, visual appearance, or configuration of an object. In a wider sense, the form is the way something happens. Form also refers to: *Form (document), a document (printed or electronic) with spaces in which to write or enter data * ...

history **

Mouse gesture In computing, a pointing device gesture or mouse gesture (or simply gesture) is a way of combining pointing device or finger movements and clicks that the software recognizes as a specific computer event and responds to accordingly. They can ...

s ** Cookie management ** RSS Feed panel *

Maemo Maemo is a software platform originally developed by Nokia, now developed by the community, for smartphones and Internet tablets. The platform comprises both the Maemo operating system and SDK. Maemo played a key role in Nokia's strategy to c ...

integration for mobile devices * Speed dial * 'Next Page' featureWeb-browser Midori Adds Unity Support and Neat 'Next Page' Feature
OMG! Ubuntu! * Support for

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Private browsing Private browsing is a privacy feature in some web browsers. When operating in such a mode, the browser creates a temporary session that is isolated from the browser's main session and user data. Browsing history is not saved, and local data as ...

* Tab backup for the next session by default Midori was part of the standard

distribution for the

Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi () is a series of small single-board computers (SBCs) developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation in association with Broadcom. The Raspberry Pi project originally leaned towards the promotion of teaching basic ...

ARMv6 ARM (stylised in lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architectures for computer processors, configured ...

-based

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, while

Dillo Dillo is a minimalistic web browser particularly intended for older or slower computers and embedded systems. It supports only plain HTML/ XHTML (with CSS rendering) and images over HTTP; scripting is ignored entirely. Current versions of Dill ...

and NetSurf are also in the menu. Midori is being packaged with Manjaro Linux and Trisquel Mini as their default web browser as well and it even was the default web browser in

and

at one time. Midori passed standard compliance

Acid3 The Acid3 test is a web test page from the Web Standards Project that checks a web browser's compliance with elements of various web standards, particularly the Document Object Model (DOM) and JavaScript. If the test is successful, the results ...

test. In March 2014, Midori scored 405/555 on the HTML5 test. In July 2015, Midori 0.5 on Windows 8 scored 325/555 on the updated HTML5 test. The former Midori was recommended by

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due to its simplicity. The major points for criticism are the absence of the process isolation, the low number of available extensions and occasional crashes. Nick Veitch from

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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". Himanshu Arora of ''

Computerworld ''Computerworld'' (abbreviated as CW) is an ongoing decades old professional publication which in 2014 "went digital." Its audience is information technology (IT) and business technology professionals, and is available via a publication website ...

'' 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. Victor Clarke from

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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.

References

External links

Midori website archives
on Archive.org
Midori project
on

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