If you are looking for a lightweight alternative web browser<\/a>, try Midori.<\/p>\n Midori<\/a> is an open source web browser that focuses more on being lightweight than providing you a ton of features.<\/p>\n If you have never heard of Midori, you might think that it is a new application but Midori was first released in the year 2007.<\/p>\n Because it focused on speed, Midori soon gathered a niche following and became the default browser in lightweight Linux distributions like Bodhi Linux, SilTaz etc.<\/p>\n Even elementary OS<\/a> used Midori as its default browser. But the development of Midori stalled around 2016 and its fans started wondering if Midori was dead already. elementary OS dropped it from its latest release (I assume) for this reason.<\/p>\n The good news is that Midori is not dead. After almost two years of inactivity, the development resumed in the last quarter of 2018. A few extensions including an ad-blocker were added in the later releases.<\/p>\n Here are some of the main features of Midroi browser<\/p>\n Trivia: Midori is a Japanese word that means Green. Midori developer is not Japanese, if you were guessing something on that line.<\/p>\n I have been using Midori for past few days. The experience is mostly fine. It supports HTML5 and renders the websites quickly. The ad-blocker is okay. Browsing experience is more or less smooth as you would expect in any standard web browser.<\/p>\n The lack of extensions has always been a weaker point of Midori so I am not going to talk about that.<\/p>\n What I did notice that it doesn\u2019t support international languages. I couldn\u2019t find a way to add new language support. It could not render the Hindi fonts at all and I am guessing it\u2019s the same with many other non-Romance languages<\/a>.<\/p>\n I also had my fair share of troubles with YouTube videos. Some videos would throw playback error while others would run just fine.<\/p>\n Midori didn\u2019t eat my RAM like Chrome so that\u2019a a big plus here.<\/p>\n If you want to try out Midori, let\u2019s see how can you get your hands on it.<\/p>\n Midori is no longer available in Ubuntu 18.04 repository. However, the newer versions of Midori can be easily installed using the Snap packages<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you are using Ubuntu, you can find Midori (snap version) in the software center and install it from there.<\/p>\n For other Linux distributions, make sure that you have Snap support enabled<\/a> and then you can install Midori using the command below:<\/p>\n sudo snap install midori<\/p>\n You always have the option to compile from the source code. You can download the source code of Midori from its website.<\/p>\n If you like Midori and want to help this open source project, please donate to them or buy Midori merchandise from their shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n Do you use Midori or have you ever tried it? How\u2019s your experience with it? What other web browser do you prefer to use? Please share your views in the comment section below.<\/p>\nFeatures of Midori web browser<\/h2>\n
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Experiencing Midori<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nInstall Midori on Linux<\/h2>\n
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Midori browser is available in Ubuntu Software Center<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/itsfoss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Midori-web-browser.jpeg?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1\")
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