{"id":47937,"date":"2025-01-08T13:19:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T13:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=47937"},"modified":"2025-01-08T13:19:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T13:19:42","slug":"midori-browser-headless-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/01\/midori-browser-headless-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Midori Browser 11.5 Added Headless Mode &#038; New App Icon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/midora-newicon.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-47938\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/midora-newicon-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/midora-newicon-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/midora-newicon-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/midora-newicon-700x700.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/midora-newicon-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/midora-newicon.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Midori web browser announced new 11.5 release recently with some exciting new features.<\/p>\n<p>Midori was a popular lightweight web browser that was default in elementary OS and Bodhi Linux. It&#8217;s now a free open-source Firefox derived browser developed by Astian Foundation, and licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL).<\/p>\n<p>The browser released new 11.5 recently, changed its app icon from a green lizard to <b>new flat design logo<\/b> that IMO feels better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/midori-iconchange.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-47939\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/midori-iconchange-700x270.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/midori-iconchange-700x270.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/midori-iconchange-300x116.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/midori-iconchange-768x296.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/midori-iconchange.webp 803w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Besides that, Midori 11.5 features headless mode. Meaning, <b>it can now work without a graphical user interface<\/b>, allowing developers and advanced users to use it for automated applications and development environments.<\/p>\n<p>And, here&#8217;s an example usage for Python according to the screenshot in Astian website:<\/p>\n<pre>from selenium import webdriver\r\nfrom selenium.webdriver.common.options import Options\r\n\r\n# Configure options for Midori in headless mode.\r\noptions = Options()\r\noptions.add_argument('--headless')\r\noptions.add_argument('--disable-gpu')\r\n\r\n# Initialize the Midori driver.\r\ndriver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, executable_path='\/route\/a\/midori-driver')\r\n\r\n# Navigate to a web page\r\ndriver.get(\"https:\/\/www.example.com\")\r\n\r\n# Print the page title\r\nprint(driver.title)\r\n\r\n# Close the browser\r\ndriver.quit()<\/pre>\n<p>The release also changed the color scheme for the address bar and focused tab. They are now highlighted with distinct-different colors, letting you know where you&#8217;re working with without taking too much attention.<\/p>\n<p>The browser now <b>has a built-in ads blocker<\/b>, though disabled by default. User can enable it by going to <i>Privacy &amp; Security<\/i> settings under Enable DNS over HTTPS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/midori-adsblocking.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-47940\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/midori-adsblocking-700x431.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/midori-adsblocking-700x431.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/midori-adsblocking-300x185.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/midori-adsblocking-768x473.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/midori-adsblocking-1320x813.webp 1320w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/midori-adsblocking.webp 1332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other changes in the new browser release include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Update default AstianGO search engine with improved speed, accuracy of search results, as well as ability to search for maps.<\/li>\n<li>Integrated DNS browsing by default, maximizing privacy and security by blocking trackers.<\/li>\n<li>Performance boost between 20% and 30%.<\/li>\n<li>Hover opened tab to preview page with thumbnail.<\/li>\n<li>Improve colors in reading mode to help reading without straining the eyes<\/li>\n<li>Official <a href=\"https:\/\/software.opensuse.org\/\/download.html?project=home%3Aastian-inc&amp;package=midori-browser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenSUSE Build repository<\/a> so far offers <code>.rpm<\/code> packages for openSUSE.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How to Get Midori web browser:<\/h3>\n<p>The Github releases page offers universal AppImage package for Linux, <code>.deb<\/code> package for Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, <code>.rpm<\/code> package for Fedora, openSUSE, RHEL, <code>pkg.tar.zst<\/code> package for Arch, as well as <code>.exe<\/code> file for Windows.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/goastian\/midori-desktop\/releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download Midori (under &#8216;Assets&#8217;)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For choice, you may go to <a href=\"https:\/\/astian.org\/midori-browser\/linux\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its website<\/a> to download the installer packages, though they are still at last 11.4 at the moment of writing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midori web browser announced new 11.5 release recently with some exciting new features. 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