Midori - a lightweight web browser

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

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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:-

1. Open your apt sources.list file for editing with the following terminal command: gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
   
   
2. 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
   
   
3. Save and exit the file
   
   
4. issue the following terminal command to update apt:
   
   
   • sudo aptitude update
   
   
   
5. Still in the terminal, enter the following command to install the package:
   
   
   • sudo aptitude install midori

This will complete the midori web browser installation.

Midori is extremely good at rendering Web Pages (owing to it using WebKit for rendering web pages) and is extremely fast as compared to Mozilla Firefox or Opera on the Linux platform. Though , Midori lacks flash support presently which could limit it's usage slightly, Midori could be extremely useful for some one running an Old PC or Linux based Kiosks.

Midori is included in the official Ubuntu repositories , so it is extremely easy to install Midori.

It's actually a more exciting world for browsers in linux!
Arora uses webkit, and kazehakase and epihpany can both be compiled with it as an engine.

Also the midori version i'm running (.1.1) works with flash 10!

I tried this out, but it crashed on me a few times. Granted it is still very early. I also didn't seem much that was particularly unique about it, unless I am missing something.