Midori (web browser)

Midori began as a lightweight^[11][12] web browser using the WebKitGTK rendering engine^[11] and the GTK widget toolkit. Midori was part of the Xfce desktop environment's Goodies collection of applications^[13] and followed the Xfce principle of "making the most out of available resources".^[14] It was the default browser in the SliTaz Linux distribution,^[15] Trisquel Mini, Artix Linux, old versions of Raspbian, and wattOS in its "R5 release".^[16] It was the default browser in elementary OS "Freya" and "Luna",^[17] and Bodhi Linux.^[18] Midori was part of the standard Raspbian distribution for the Raspberry Pi ARMv6-based computer, while Dillo and NetSurf are also in the menu.

Midori passed the standard compliance Acid3 test.^[19] In March 2014, Midori scored 405/555 on the HTML5 test.^[20] In July 2015, Midori 0.5 on Windows 8 scored 325/555 on the updated HTML5 test.^[21]

In June 2024, Astian's CEO announced Midori would launch their own open source VPN service.^[22] The VPN service became available in February 2025, though not yet integrated within the browser.^[23]

In March 2025, Astian released version 11.5.2, the first version to support macOS. It also announced plans for making Midori available on iPhone and iPad.^[24]

Midori featured:

• Support for integration with GTK2^[25] and GTK3
• WebKitGTK rendering engine^[11]
• Tabs, windows and session management^[25]
• Configurable web search engine
• User scripts and user styles support
• Bookmark management
• Customizable and extensible interface
• Extension modules can be written in C and Vala^[26]
• Support for HTML5^[27]
• DuckDuckGo as a default search engine^[28]
• Internationalized domain names support
• Smart bookmarks
• Extensions
  • Adblock Plus^[29]
  • Form history^[25]
  • Mouse gestures^[25]
  • Cookie management^[25]
  • RSS Feed panel^[25]
• Maemo integration for mobile devices^[30]
• Speed dial^[15]
• 'Next Page' feature^[31]
• Support for Ubuntu Unity^[31]
• Private browsing^[15]
• Tab backup for the next session by default^[32]

The former Midori was recommended by Lifehacker due to its simplicity.^[33] The major points for criticism are the absence of process isolation, the low number of available extensions^[34] and occasional crashes.^{[citation needed]}

Nick Veitch from TechRadar included Midori 0.2.2 in his 2010 list of the eight best web browsers for Linux. At that time he rated it as "5/10" and concluded, "while it does perform reasonably well all-round, there is no compelling reason to choose this browser over the default Gnome browser, Epiphany, or indeed any of the bigger boys".^[35]

Himanshu Arora of Computerworld reviewed Midori 0.5.4 in November 2013 and praised the browser's speed and uncluttered interface, while additionally underlining the private browsing mode which uses a separate launch icon and displays the mode's differences on the home tab.^[32]

Victor Clarke from Gigaom praised the former Midori's minimalism in 2014 stating: "Midori will satisfy your humble needs without slowing down your PC.", despite stressing the lack of advanced functionality.^[36]

• GNOME Web – a similar web browser based on GTK and WebKitGTK
• List of web browsers for Unix and Unix-like operating systems