Midori is Rockin’ Fast
So I love firefox… with great extensions like Noscript and Download Them All… BUT….
there has always been competition. Opera used to be the speed champ, and then came Google’s Chrome with it’s adventurous architecture and boastable benchmarks. Problem: Opera is closed source, and Chrome is published by Skynet.
Then came Midori, which shares a rendering engine with speedy Chrome. Just months ago, in my tests, it was rendering pages faster than anything else but Dillo or links (Which do not support CSS/JS), with the added bonus of crashing every third page or so.
…But no more! I just revisted midori, and pointed it to pages explicitly designed to choke your browser, and it survived. I browsed a little, then I made this post, and it’s still kicking. This champ is made of bricks and fast, and there’s even a windows binary available. Try it or die trying. (Edit: It still has some terrible bugs that make it unfit for general use. Try epiphany or chrome instead)
Some benchmarks:
p.s. Midori has almost no screen clutter and a generally minimalistic GUI – it’s got less buttons than firefox, yet more of the buttons that I would use a button for.
p.p.s. For another inspired UI, try ‘epiphany’, which shares a rendering engine with firefox also uses the webkit engine, as of 09/2009.
p.p.p.s. Did I mention chrome’s sensible stability or liberal licensing?
related: Wikipedia: Chromium (the gpl chrome)
not related: Youtube: Did You Know?
December 24th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Nice post, just a small note. Epiphany is using the webkit engine, the same engine as midori and chrome, since gnome’s 2.28 release. Besides sharing the same cool engine, midori and epiphany share also the problems of the new kids on block (e.g. not being able to download attachments from gmail) so it’s still firefox for me. I can’t wait for a fully functional midori
btw thanks for the trackback
December 24th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
=) I’m using Ubuntu as well, which packed epiphany with gecko by default the last time I did browser tryouts (back when midori’s logo was a leaf). I just tried it, and it’s been moved to webkit, awesome. Thanks for bumping the subject. =)
. Thanks for being my first non-spam comment, ever.
It’s worth mentioning that Epiphany + Webkit beat out midori and even chrome in the ‘peacekeeper’ benchmark, see the davidhayes.org link above.
Hah trackback was wordpress automagic, I just make the links
double also: I love a disturbingly full fullscreen, but Epiphany always has the ‘leave fullscreen’ button…