This is my first how to guide, so bare with me a little bit.
Table of Contents
-- Intro
-- Installation
-- Flash
-- Benchmarks
Midori (緑?, Japanese for green) is a web browser that aims to be lightweight and fast. It uses the WebKit rendering engine and the GTK+*2 interface. Midori is part of the Xfce desktop environment's Goodies component.[2] As of February 2009, the project is still at alpha status.
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Should I use Midori?
Currently, as of version 0.1.7, Midori is still quite buggy. If you don't mind a browser that might crash every once in awhile, and want to try out something new, then go for it. I recommend that you still keep firefox installed, or whatever you are using as your primary browser, just incase you come across something that doesn't quite work as it should.
Installation
First, you must add two PPA's to your sources.list
Code:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Add these lines to the bottom of the file, then save and close it.
Code:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webkit-team/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webkit-team/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/midori/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/midori/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
Now you must add the keys to access the new PPA's.
Code:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 2D9A3C5B
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys A69241F1
Now update your repositories.
Code:
sudo apt-get update
And install Midori.
Code:
sudo apt-get install midori
All the dependencies should be installed and you will have the latest version installed, if for some reason it doesn't just let me know and I'll try my best to figure out what happened.
Flash
You can install flash as your normally would with any other browser, if you haven't installed it already, you can do so with this command:
Code:
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Benchmarks
For any of those interested, I ran a few benchmarks using SunSpider's JavaScript benchmarks. Please note that you might not get the same speeds reported here, because of various hardware and software configurations.
Midori v0.1.7-7ca782e
Results: 1135.0ms +/- 3.8%
Details: http://tinyurl.com/lsvx7a
Firefox v3.5
Results: 4018.0ms +/- 1.9%
Details: http://tinyurl.com/l5h7vg
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