There are a number of different web browsers available on the Linux platform like the popular Mozilla Firefox running on Gecko , Opera or the Konqueror running atop KHTML.Midori is a notch above Dillo and is based on popular WebKit engine.
Midori is a lightweight web browser based on Webkit. Midori Features:-
- Full integration with GTK+2.
- Fast rendering with WebKit.
- Tabs, windows and session management.
- Bookmarks are stored with XBEL.
- Searchbox based on OpenSearch.
- Custom context menu actions.
- User scripts and user styles support.
- Extensible via Lua scripts.
Requirements: GTK+ 2.6, libsexy, WebkitGtk , libXML2
WebKit is being developed by a number of different organisation and groups and is at the heart of two popular Web Browsers Apple Safari and Google Chrome. WebKit also powers a number of web browsers on the mobile platform(in fact Nokia plans to develop a web browser based on WebKit for it's Symbian mobile platform). It is an extremely robust rendering engine , and competes neck to neck (and in fact is ahead) with Gecko , Opera in terms of Java Script rendering.
Install Midori Web Browser in ubuntu:-
- Open your apt sources.list file for editing with the following terminal command: gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
- Add the following two lines to the bottom of the file
- deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/stemp/ubuntu gutsy main
- deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/stemp/ubuntu gutsy main
- Save and exit the file
- issue the following terminal command to update apt:
- sudo aptitude update
- Still in the terminal, enter the following command to install the package:
- sudo aptitude install midori
This will complete the midori web browser installation.
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