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Midori - a lightweight web browser

Posted by admin on November 19th, 2007 Email This Post Email This Post

Midori is a lightweight web browser.

Midori Features

* Full integration with GTK+2.
* Fast rendering with WebKit.
* Tabs, windows and session management.
* Bookmarks are stored with XBEL.
* Searchbox based on OpenSearch.
* Custom context menu actions.
* User scripts and user styles support.
* Extensible via Lua scripts.

Requirements: GTK+ 2.6, libsexy, WebkitGtk , libXML2

Install Midori Web Browser in ubuntu

Open your apt sources.list file for editing with the following terminal command:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the following two lines to the bottom of the file

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/stemp/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/stemp/ubuntu gutsy main

Save and exit the file

issue the following terminal command to update apt:

sudo aptitude update

Still in the terminal, enter the following command to install the package:

sudo aptitude install midori

This will complete the midori web browser installation.

Using Midori

If you want to open Midori go to Aplications—>Internet—>Midori Web Browser

Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen

Midori Web Browser Version Details

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5 Responses to “Midori - a lightweight web browser”

  1. Forrest Says:

    I add your repositories and try to insall midori but I keep getting unknown dependencies.

  2. admin Says:

    try to run the following command and check

    sudo apt-get -f install

  3. jdarias Says:

    I get this error:

    midori: symbol lookup error: midori: undefined symbol: webkit_web_settings_new

  4. W. McKemie Says:

    Same trouble here with Gutsy.

  5. Skipo Says:

    Same error here too, with gutsy.

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