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Midori >

(The version of Midori was not recorded)

The first glance is that this isn't a real project because it doesn't have a real website.  But then again, it doesn't have a stable release yet, so I don't mind at all.

Overall it's decent, but it lacks a couple of fundamentals which would prevent my using it as an everyday browser. The fact that it is better with Flash really gives it a niche use.

Tested 2009-08-07 on Unity Linux 0.99-alpha1.

This is touted as one of those light browsers.  It's actually quite a complete and usable browser already.

Tested on Unity Linux 0.99-alpha1, updated 2009-08-07

Pretty trivial to compile from source. All the dependencies were in the repository already.

• I had an odd experience when downloading a Firefox archive. It went really slow in Midori, but very fast in Firefox.

• Uses alt-shift <key> for accesskeys. Fail.

  • Strangely, I can alt-s to save when editing.
• Can't redefine the hotkeys to use control-tab and control-shift-tab to move between tabs. Fail.
• Enabling then disabling the coloured tabs plugin leaves the tabs (and new tabs) coloured.
• Has full JavaScript, CSS, and Flash support.. wow.

• Has no functionality to remember passwords. Fail.

  • Used to be bug 53 but they changed their bug tracker and I don't want to hunt for it.
  • www.twotoasts.de/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=53
• It has an ad-blocking plugin, but there's no hint as to how one could use it. Argh.

• Its hotkeys, like changing tabs, works even with flash focused. Yay.

  • (It would take another ten years for Firefox to catch up to this functionality.)
• There's no option to keep one tab visible even if there's only one left.
• I wish it had keyworded bookmarks.

• The configure shortcuts plugin:

  • Ought to have a search, and ought to be sortable.
  • Ought to let you have multiple bindings for the same command.
• When viewing pages with Flash, it uses just as much memory as Firefox, and a little less CPU cycles.
• When not viewing pages with flash, it uses a great deal less memory than Firefox.
• It is faster than Firefox for loading pages.
• It can't view the local filesystem.
• The rendering seems perfect to me. Wikipedia is in its plain mode though, which seems strange.

• Abandons downloads on exit.

  • Used to be bug 473 but they changed their bug tracker and I don't want to hunt for it.
  • was www.twotoasts.de/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=473
• Seems to have issues loading some Favicons, most likely multiple-size combined-favicons.

• Can't control-w when you have only one page left. I am expecting it to blank it.

  • Fixed in 0.2.2 or earlier.

Last updated 2021-02-01 at 15:21:22