is a web browser

Web browser

A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...

 that aims to be lightweight and fast. It uses the WebKit

WebKit

WebKit is a layout engine designed to allow web browsers to render web pages. WebKit powers Google Chrome and Apple Safari and by October 2011 held over 33% of the browser market share between them. It is also used as the basis for the experimental browser included with the Amazon Kindle ebook...

 rendering engine and the GTK+ 2

GTK+

GTK+ is a cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, allowing both free and proprietary software to use it. It is one of the most popular toolkits for the X Window System, along with Qt.The name GTK+ originates from GTK;...

 interface. Midori is part of the Xfce

Xfce

Xfce is a free software desktop environment for Unix and other Unix-like platforms, such as Linux, Solaris, and BSD – though recent compatibility issues have arisen with regard to BSD Unix platforms...

 desktop environment

Desktop environment

In graphical computing, a desktop environment commonly refers to a style of graphical user interface derived from the desktop metaphor that is seen on most modern personal computers. These GUIs help the user in easily accessing, configuring, and modifying many important and frequently accessed...

's Goodies component. It is the default browser in elementary OS and the Bodhi Linux

Bodhi Linux

Bodhi Linux is a small Linux distribution using the Enlightenment window manager and based upon Ubuntu. Its philosophy is to provide a base system with a minimal desktop, file browser, web browser, terminal emulator and leave the exact choice of applications to the user...

 distribution as well as Trisquel Mini.

Features

Official listed features:

• Full integration with GTK+ 2; Experimental GTK+3 support in 0.4.1 release (disabled by default)
• Fast rendering with WebKit
• Tabs, windows and session management
• Flexibly configurable web search
• User scripts and user styles support
• Straightforward bookmark management
• Customizable and extensible interface
• Extension modules can be written in C and Vala
• Supports HTML5 on Youtube
• Form history, mouse gestures and cookie management.

Midori passes the Acid3

Acid3

Acid3 test is a web test page from the Web Standards Project that checks a web browser's compliance with elements of various web standards, particularly the Document Object Model and JavaScript....

 test.

Among the latter features are:

• Internationalized domain name
  Internationalized domain name
  An internationalized domain name is an Internet domain name that contains at least one label that is displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in a language-specific script or alphabet, such as Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Hindi or the Latin alphabet-based characters with diacritics,...
  
  s support
• Extensions
  • Adblock
  • Form history
  • Mouse gesture
    Mouse gesture
    In computing, a pointing device gesture or mouse gesture is a way of combining pointing device movements and clicks which the software recognizes as a specific command. Pointing device gestures can provide quick access to common functions of a program. They can also be useful for people who have...
    
    s
  • Cookie management
• Maemo
  Maemo
  Maemo is a software platform developed by the Maemo community for smartphones and Internet tablets. It is based on the Debian Linux distribution, but has no relation to it...
  
  integration for mobile devices
• Speed Dial
• Feed Panel

External link

• Official website