Midori est un navigateur créé en 2007, très léger sans fioritures, que l'on pouvait retrouver uniquement sur les plateformes Linux et Windows. Midori était basé sur GTK et intégrait le moteur WebKit en son cœur. Il était personnalisable avec des scripts et quelques extensions (un bloqueur de pub en fait partie). Son développement a été abandonné sur Windows puisque Webkit n'était plus développé pour cette plateforme, mais son histoire continua sur Linux jusqu'à fin juillet 2019.
Mais depuis cette dernière version, un nouveau projet, baptisé "Next", naquit au même moment du rachat de la petite startup (crée par les développeurs) par Astian. Ainsi en octobre 2020, cette nouvelle version de Midori était disponible sur Windows, macOS et Linux avant de repartir dans les méandres du développement suite à un crash du site du développeur. Reparti de zéro, la version Android est disponible et les futures versions pour Windows, macOS et linux seront désormais basées sur la version ESR de Firefox.
Midori
Version actuelle : 11.2
Windows 32/64 bits (en ligne, hors-ligne & portable) | Linux 64 bits (DEB, Arch Linux)
Midori Android
Version actuelle : 2.0
Play Store, Huawei AppGallery
Web3 Support (Beta)
Web3 is with us and technological changes are taking the world towards that path. In this version we have added support for this technology in beta phase through:
Browsing on these platforms will not strain Midori or device resources.
Multimedia Support
We know that multimedia consumption through the browser is one of the most important sections today, which is why we have dedicated efforts to improving this section through the following improvements.
- Improvements in DRM access allowing for smoother streaming viewing.
- Improvements in the H.265 codecs, this translates into a substantial improvement in the viewing of 4K videos. In each update we will continue to improve this section.
- Resolution improvements for NVIDIA devices.
- Support for JPEG XL has been extended and improved.
- Hardware acceleration in VMware.
Privacy & Security.
Privacy and security are a point that is becoming more and more relevant and we at Midori want to lead the way in promoting a safer and more private website:
- Only accept HTTPS: to increase navigation security, when users enter a site with HTTP Midori will show them an alert, if users trust they can move forward, if not, we invite users not to visit said website.
- DoH active by default: A few weeks ago we announced MidoriDNS to promote security and privacy, in this version we activated it by default adding important points in security and privacy, see more information by clicking here.
- Global Privacy Control is activated.
- Reduction and dissolution of cookie banners.
- For Midori on Windows, the trust of executable and installable files has been increased.
- Definitive stopping of pingsender towards Mozilla, this also influences better and greater performance.
General improvements
Midori’s improvements to its interface are also of great importance and it is an issue that we have improved in this update:
- Redesign of the download area.
- Corrections to the layouts and the vertical tabs option.
- Icon improvements.
- Improvements to the status bar.
- Customization improvements in workspaces.
- Improvements to custom shortcuts.
- General code cleanup.