Midori browser 0.5.6 fixed 35 bugs, Install in Ubuntu via PPA

Last updated: November 22, 2013

midori 0.5.6 ubuntu

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+
  • 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
  • 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

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