Very poetic indeed... And that's our plight with all these modern browsers (especially the Chromium-based ones; fruits of a big poison tree starting with 'G'). It's the bells 'n whistles that sell. Your browser can do everything except just open a web page properly. Functionality was on its last legs in the 2000s, hence we ended up with phones you can't type on and software that takes as long, if not longer, to start than when we had less than a tenth the computing power. I guess we can but hope that at least in the browser arena, Midori and/or Co. succeed in setting the bar high again.
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Condobloke
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Amen to that.
Yes we will continue to develop and improve currently beta 6 has been tested by Pawel creator of Sparky and he reports that it is much faster than Firefox 133 and yes, we have increased performance by 20-30% plus we have strengthened security and privacy.
Coming soon Midori 11.5
Please can you try to replicate or reproduce the possible error to see what can happen, although it is strange, they have never reported something like that, but still let's rule it out, if you can reproduce it would be fastastic to visually have that.
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Condobloke
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I cannot reproduce it. I tried yesterday. I looked ib Firefox browser and Chromium and brave.......and I changed the lot of them around a month ago
I can 'make' a visual, but that would not be true
I clicked on each of the home pages in that mini drama and they all opened as the pages i had previously used.
i have the pages url's in a list somewhere here...probably in email from that I have sent to myself at some time....I have a few pc's and I find it quicker to access certain data which I have stored on thunderbird, rather than remember it all.
I will just keep that one in the back of my mind, and move on
I can 'make' a visual, but that would not be true
I clicked on each of the home pages in that mini drama and they all opened as the pages i had previously used.
i have the pages url's in a list somewhere here...probably in email from that I have sent to myself at some time....I have a few pc's and I find it quicker to access certain data which I have stored on thunderbird, rather than remember it all.
I will just keep that one in the back of my mind, and move on
James, loved the turns of phrases in #57, you should be a writer. 
@ponchale , question for you.
Firefox have a category Files and Applications in Settings, and I use the Download to function all the time.
Default setting for most people is likely ~/Downloads , but mine I set to an external drive as most of my downloads are .iso's for Linux distributions.
See as follows
Midori does not have this on its initial page in Settings, however when I click in the search settings box at top and type in "downloads", it then appears. Is there a reason for this, or would Midori consider making it simpler? I will attempt to duplicate it and capture it if I can.
TIA
Wizard
@ponchale , question for you.
Firefox have a category Files and Applications in Settings, and I use the Download to function all the time.
Default setting for most people is likely ~/Downloads , but mine I set to an external drive as most of my downloads are .iso's for Linux distributions.
See as follows
Midori does not have this on its initial page in Settings, however when I click in the search settings box at top and type in "downloads", it then appears. Is there a reason for this, or would Midori consider making it simpler? I will attempt to duplicate it and capture it if I can.
TIA
Wizard
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James, loved the turns of phrases in #57, you should be a writer.
@ponchale , question for you.
Firefox have a category Files and Applications in Settings, and I use the Download to function all the time.
Default setting for most people is likely ~/Downloads , but mine I set to an external drive as most of my downloads are .iso's for Linux distributions.
See as follows
Midori does not have this on its initial page in Settings, however when I click in the search settings box at top and type in "downloads", it then appears. Is there a reason for this, or would Midori consider making it simpler? I will attempt to duplicate it and capture it if I can.
TIA
Wizard
Well, this is more a matter of the order in which things are arranged, of course, we could improve and we will do it.
PD: what is TIA and Wizard?
Sorry, SMS text speak. TIA is Thanks In Advance, and Wizard is me ...wizardfromoz
Funny you should mention that. I'm actually sitting on a couple on novels (1 + 1.5/3 (it's a trilogy) + 0.25 to split hairs), the first of which I finished in 2009 and "Life" just got in the way. I'm hoping to get at least that first one out there at some point... Eventually...James, loved the turns of phrases in #57, you should be a writer.
* Goes and stands in the off-topic corner with the other naughty kids *
Midori seems to work well.
I chose the basic setup from the start.
It offers a lot of settings for users to tweak it the way they want.
A lot of settings is alright for users who like tweaking stuff although I'm not one that cares for a lot of settings.
The only settings I want and need are the settings to turn off the additional stuff that always comes with browsers.
An example of what I'm talking about is "Vivaldi" which I gave up on before finishing tweaking all of the settings. Way to many settings imo.
Less settings is better just settings to turn off all of the additional stuff and advertising window stuff etc.
I don't care for sidebars or busy cluttered toolbars on my browser.
Don't need any of clutter to accidentally click on and then have to figure out what I did.
Don't get me wrong the AstianGO search engine itself works well as I was able to find everything I searched for.
I was able to setup and use everything I need without creating an account.
Not having to create any account is a plus imo as I don't like creating accounts.
I'm just not a trusting soul and creating accounts is unnecessary and usually have always been a deal killer imo.
I'll continue to use Midori as it's a nice browser that I would recommend to other users.
P.S.
The above is my opinion based from personal use.
I chose the basic setup from the start.
It offers a lot of settings for users to tweak it the way they want.
A lot of settings is alright for users who like tweaking stuff although I'm not one that cares for a lot of settings.
The only settings I want and need are the settings to turn off the additional stuff that always comes with browsers.
An example of what I'm talking about is "Vivaldi" which I gave up on before finishing tweaking all of the settings. Way to many settings imo.
Less settings is better just settings to turn off all of the additional stuff and advertising window stuff etc.
I don't care for sidebars or busy cluttered toolbars on my browser.
Don't need any of clutter to accidentally click on and then have to figure out what I did.
Don't get me wrong the AstianGO search engine itself works well as I was able to find everything I searched for.
I was able to setup and use everything I need without creating an account.
Not having to create any account is a plus imo as I don't like creating accounts.
I'm just not a trusting soul and creating accounts is unnecessary and usually have always been a deal killer imo.
I'll continue to use Midori as it's a nice browser that I would recommend to other users.
P.S.
The above is my opinion based from personal use.
charlie.corder
Well-Known Member
For what it's worth - I downloaded Midori from the Astian website and installed it on LM 22 Wilma via flatpak through the Software Manager.
Have not had time to try a lot of things yet, but one thing @Condobloke mentioned in #13 had me curious about giving that a try - it would not keep optimization. They must have fixed that, because it works fine now.
There are very few differences between how this and FF function, except that Midori does seem to be quite a bit faster. {Just an opinion from the old Geezer}.
I'll keep using it to see if I want to replace my default web browser, FF, with Midori.
If my memory holds out I will update my opinion in about a week.
Cheers!
Old Geezer
Tango Charlie
Have not had time to try a lot of things yet, but one thing @Condobloke mentioned in #13 had me curious about giving that a try - it would not keep optimization. They must have fixed that, because it works fine now.
There are very few differences between how this and FF function, except that Midori does seem to be quite a bit faster. {Just an opinion from the old Geezer}.
I'll keep using it to see if I want to replace my default web browser, FF, with Midori.
If my memory holds out I will update my opinion in about a week.
Cheers!
Old Geezer
Tango Charlie
Keep both browsers.
Flatpak get along with Deb files so no conflicts should occur between Firefox and Midori.
I have Firefox and Midori and Chromium on one computer without any conflicts between them.
Midori is a nice browser.
Enjoy.
Heh.
Okay; admittedly, it's more due to my 'portable' re-packaging efforts for the Puppy community than it is to anything else, but at any given time I will usually have on the system:-
- Brave
- Chrome
- Chromium - in 32- and 64-bit, utilising builds from Eric Hameleers of Slackware fame (better known as 'AlienBob')
- Iron
- Opera
- Slimjet
- Ungoogled Chromium
- Edge for Linux
- Firefox - in both 32- and 64-bit / 'mainstream' & ESR builds
- Pale Moon - in 32- and 64-bit
- Seamonkey - in 32- and 64-bit
- Basilisk
- Librewolf, and now
- Midori - also in both 32- and 64-bit
Not all of these will be in the current stable release format, either. Chrome, I've used since it burst onto the scene back in 2008, and I often have 'Beta' and 'Canary' channel builds on test somewhere, too.
Of course, due to the self-contained nature of the portables - including their profiles and ALL config stuff - you can have as many (or as few) of these browsers open at the same time as you like.......and there is NO conflict between any of 'em at all.
It's a neat way of running apps, that fits very well with our Pup's slightly 'oddball' way of doing things. It also permits 'sharing' of already set-up items between multiple Puppies....
Mike.
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Yeah....
Needless to say, I have to keep stuff fairly well-organized! If I didn't, I'd never find where I'd stashed everything.....
Partition sda3 of my primary Crucial SSD is where all my portable apps live, in their own directory. This is sub-divided into 32- and 64-bit.
All browsers live in an adjacent directory, on the same partition....again, sub-divided into 32- and 64-bit.
sda1 is the small FAT32-formatted boot partition.
sda2 is the "kennels", where all my Pups reside.....each in their own uniquely-named sub-directory. And I DO still use a few 32-bit Pups.....some of those older 32-bit only Puppies were - and still ARE - great fun to use.
By the judicious use of kernel and glibc upgrades, along with use of a newer Puppy running in a chroot environment, I can still run modern, up-to-date browsers in a 12-15 yr-old Pup......even 64-bit versions, if I wish (via use of a 64-bit kernel). Which is a very neat trick!
Mike.
Yep one of the beauties of Puppy Linux.By the judicious use of kernel and glibc upgrades, along with use of a newer Puppy running in a chroot environment, I can still run modern, up-to-date browsers in a 12-15 yr-old Pup......even 64-bit versions, if I wish (via use of a 64-bit kernel). Which is a very neat trick!
Mike.
I still on occasion fire up a Puppy on a USB flash drive but not very often.
I'm using Easy OS hard to use anything else as I'm sold on the total isolation mode option at boot up which eliminates all hard drives from the system.
I think it's probably fair to say that, ever since he stepped-down from the role of "PuppyMaster", to concentrate on his own ideas & projects, Barry has produced some of his best work ever.
The 'Quirky' series introduced a number of experimental ideas, some of which have since been added back into the Woof-CE community build-scripts, and improved upon still further.
And now there's the EasyOS series, initially based around various Debian releases, then latterly the embedded Yocto Project.
'Twas only a few months ago that I took a good look at the EasyOS release names.....and I thought to myself, "Y'know, these all sound remarkably familiar...." I did a bit of head-scratching, a bit of research, and then it came to me; the Yocto Project releases - which Barry's using as a base for EasyOS - are ALL named after mountain passes in the UK's world-renowned Lake District in the north-west of England......a beautiful area where I spent quite a bit of time as a young man.
(My guess is that there is the inspiration for Easy's 'drive isolation' mode....because "embedded" systems very rarely rely on having access to any kind of drive. Almost always, they run entirely from read-only ROM chips....think ATMs, or similar stand-alone set-ups. Often, such set-ups will have an internet connection, but that's usually the extent of it.)
Mike.
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Yeah I started looking up names of Linux distros back in my days of running Antix Linux.And now there's the EasyOS series, initially based around various Debian releases, then latterly the embedded Yocto Project.
'Twas only a few months ago that I took a good look at the EasyOS release names.....and I thought to myself, "Y'know, these all sound remarkably familiar...." I did a bit of head-scratching, a bit of research, and then it came to me; the Yocto Project releases - which Barry's using as a base for EasyOS - are ALL named after mountain passes in the UK's world-renowned Lake District in the north-west of England......a beautiful area where I spent quite a bit of time as a young man.
(My guess is that there is the inspiration for Easy's 'drive isolation' mode....because "embedded" systems very rarely rely on having access to any kind of drive. Almost always, they run entirely from read-only ROM chips....think ATMs, or similar stand-alone set-ups. Often, such set-ups will have an internet connection, but that's usually the extent of it.)
Mike.
The distro names in Antix Linux are always named from some significant individual or significant event from history or significant current event.
Here's an example.
The distro antiX-23.2 “Arditi del Popolo”
1918-1922: The Arditi del Popolo
A history of the people's militias who fought Italy's fascists covering the birth, growth and decline of the world's first anti-fascist group, the Arditi del Popolo.
I always found the history behind the distro names to be interesting.
This was something I noticed was done in the smaller non mainstream Linux distros although not implying that some of the mainstream distros don't.
My Apologies for going off topic.
hacktheworld
Active Member
I installed this last night, via its .deb file.....Thanks to @MikeWalsh for dropping a link to it in This topic
The Midori Browser
So far, I have found it to be extremely quick, and has a good solid feel to it
I am impressed.
I used the .deb download...installed in a flash.
Midori for Linux Download
Download Midori for any Linux distribution and download it fast, light and securely without exposing your privacy on the web.astian.org
I used the above link...clicked on 'Select linux Distro, and chose "Debian de 64 bits'....this opens a download which installs easily with Gdebi Package Installer in linux Mint etc
There are downloads there for Flatpak and tar.bz2 etc
I installed Midori on my Linux distribution,
it's really fast!!
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Sorry I missed it, we are in the release of Midori 11.5 which brings many new features, and an increase in performance between 20 and 30% is still in pre-release and we are working on adjustments.
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Sorry I missed it, we are in the release of Midori 11.5 which brings many new features, and an increase in performance between 20 and 30% is still in pre-release and we are working on adjustments.
Release v11.5 · goastian/midori-desktop
Full Changelog: v11.4.3...v11.5 Midori 11.5 arrives with many improvements in security, privacy and speed. Midori Image Midori's logo and icons are renewed, to give a new image to Midori, we have c...
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