The lightweight Midori browser recently released version 0.5.6 with lots of changes, it fixed Ubuntu 12.04 building and Ubuntu 13.10 saucy menu issues and many other bugs.
This tutorial shows you how to upgrade Midori in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and Elementary OS Luna.
See Changelog in Midori 0.5.6:
instead of creating devpet status icon on extension load, create it only to show new messages
Open speed dial or homepage according to preference
handle tab duplication
Add copyright note to appdata file
Tweak searching for resources when running from build folder
Swap NULL-check with main frame check
Use correct signal when clearing the trash
Hide WEbGL preference if it is unavailable
Remove stored popup sessions from the database
Check all browsers for opened sessions and whether they’re popups
removed unused preference dialog and related code
Fix check for found valac and mention VALAC variable
Fix autoscrolling if page contains a frame with our custom error page
Don’t use context-menu signal in WebKitGTK+ < 1.10.0
Fix building on Ubuntu 12.04
Reset item ids when re-importing bookmarks
Check path being NULL in export before trying to inspect it
restore the last closed sessions if no session is opened
Cast WebKitDOMHtmlElement for getting source content
Use font-set signal and font family for GTK+ 3.2 font chooser
add function to view dom source
remove unused variable
Resolve compiler warnings in current trunk
Update win32-release script for cmake, move unused docs/scripts to old folder
Try to handle previous runs of cmake in configure wrapper
Correct view source assertions in tab unit test
Build fix: found undeclared in midori_bookmarks_db_remove_item_recursive
Cache bookmark items to avoid their recreation on database reads
allow “view source” on about pages
Enable old target policy on cmake < 2.8.8
Re-arrange data file installing to be more explicit
option to modify the number of tabs which will be restored in each idle callback
Implement MidoriBookmarksDatabase class by inheritence from MidoriDatabase
Ensure tab spinners update as often as the menubar spinner to avoid desync
Use tabby sorting increment when importing session.xbel tabs
Only install config files to /etc if prefix equals /usr
handle urls as argument when starting midori
Make tabby compile with Webkit2
Drop waf build system and provide cmake-based “configure” script
midori_panel_action_activate_cb forgot to update the action group
Fixes bug where certificate Security overlay failed to close
handle tab movement
add tab sorting
Untangle implicit GTK+3 for Granite and WebKit2
Allow running test under debug tools with cmake
Install config files to /etc when install prefix is /usr
Add missing PO_FILES argument to GETTEXT_PROCESS_PO_FILES
Add USE_APIDOCS to build API docs with CMake
Rasterize SVG to PNG with rsvg-convert
fix bookmarks test regression after fix-1179200-4
Add CMakeLists.txt for config directory
Install mo files in locale dir
don’t change uri/title if the tab isn’t loaded
use a separate signal to store the tab title
Check if execinfo.h header exists on BSD
fix endless loop in Midori.Database.init
Use destructive-action style class in ClearPrivateData
Initialize priv->element to avoid crash when freeing
Introduces KatzeArray::update-item to handle metadata changes
Refactor excuting schema from file into a function
Use stock as string in liststore
Drop needless (and wrong) HAVE_LIBNOTIFY in preferences
Flip horizontal position of the overlay when hit by the mouse
Add Midori.URI.get_base_domain and use it in NoJS
Introduce Midori.Database and use for history and tabby
ctrl+shift+w should trigger a delete-event
Implement dialog windows opened via javascript
Make get_res_filename work with different hierarchies
fix check for new database
Speed up session import
Import tab title from old sessions
Separate CFLAGS for C and add missing HAVE_
Install top-level text files and FAQ html/ css to doc dir
Provide and install .appdata.xml file for app stores
Move bookmarks db handling to midori-bookmarks-db
Add XSS to OPTS_LIBRARIES
Update condition for UBUNTU_MENUPROXY to work on Saucy
Introduce tabby, the new session manager
Fix typo in katze_item_set_meta_integer call
Allow bookmark bar update on additions resulting from imports
Re-work midori_array_query_recursive to not include folder items twice
Fix syntax of icon sizes passed to foreach
Add bzr revision number to version if available
Unify nojs and cookie policy dialogs, make policy changeable within the list
Drop all G_ENABLE_DEBUG guards
Add -g to CFLAGS to enable debugging symbols
Adjust cmake build for Win32
Implement CMake build setup
Port MidoriApp from Unique/ sockets to GApplication
New signal about-content to provide content for about uris
Check if browser is NULL in midori_view_get_tab_menu to prevent a crash. Fixes bug #1215652.
Ensure proxy setting widgets callbacks don’t outlive the widgets themselves
Fix webkit2 build error
Show the bookmarks import location combobox.
Rename internal completion URLs to avoid confusion
Install Midori 0.5.6
The new release has been made into Midori PPA for Ubuntu and its derivatives (failed to build in Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit).
To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:midori/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install midori
midori web browser in ubuntu 13.10
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