Midori 11 has already been released and these are its new features

Announced the launch of the new version of the Midori 11 web browser, a version in which redesign, performance, security and privacy improvements for the user, among other things, have been implemented.

It is worth mentioning that the project Midori in 2019 was absorbed by the Astian company and was the one who presented the branch of the Midori 11 web browser, which moved to the Mozilla Gecko engine used in Firefox. The Midori 11 code repository was created by borrowing the code base of the Floorp browser, developed by a group of Japanese students, and combining the Firefox engine with Chrome-style capabilities and interface.

Midori 11 version is similar to Floorp branch 11 and it is mentioned that it was formed together with the Floorp development team, whose cooperation will continue in the future. At the same time, the code bases of the projects will develop in their own way and the interface will vary significantly.

It should be noted that this is not Midori's first major redesign. Initially, this browser was developed by members of the Xfce project based on the WebKitGTK engine and the GTK3 library (the Vala language was used for development). After the project was taken over by the Astian company, a radically redesigned Midori 10 branch was released, created through a fork of the Wexond browser, based on the Chromium engine and the Electron platform.

Main news of Midori 11

In this new version of Midori 11, the redesign improvements in the browser interface stand out, and it is which has added a permanently visible sidebar for quick access to history, downloads, bookmarks and web applications like notes and translation. New themes have been added, including a theme designed for the GNOME environment.

Another novelty that stands out in this new version is that a 20% performance increase is presumed compared to the previous Midori branch, and a 15% performance increase compared to browsers based on the Chromium engine.

In addition to this, it was added the concept of workspaces, allowing pages to be grouped of certain topics and quickly switch between them. For example, you can separate sites used for work and personal purposes.

We can also find in this new version, a built-in VPN to hide the IP address and avoid censorship. The service used is Midori VPN, which supports free access and extended paid plans.

Moreover, Different components have been enabled to improve privacy protection. For example, blocking annoying ads, protection against motion tracking, and settings to prevent hidden user identification are enabled by default.

Of the other changes that stand out:

• The Midori browser successfully passed 401 tests from the BrowserAudit suite, received 27 warnings and not a single review.
• By default, the AstianGO search engine is used, aimed at maintaining privacy.
• Integration with cloud storage is provided to store files. Free 50GB storage is provided.
• Added tools for taking notes and translating from one language to another (based on Google Translate). It is possible to add other tools, such as the web version of Telegram.
• Flexible options to customize the interface and functionality to your liking.

If you are interested in knowing more about it, you can check the details in the following link.

How to install Midori browser 9 on Ubuntu and derivatives?

As was said in this article, the compilations of this new version of the web browser are prepared for Linux in the snap and Android package format (obtained from the Play Store).

In Android they just have to go to the following link to request installation to your device from the PlayStore. The link is this.

For those who are interested in being able to install this web browser on their systems, you can do so by following the steps that we share with you below. If they are Ubuntu users, You can get the deb package from the browser's official website. You can access it from the following link.

Once the package is downloaded, simply install it with your preferred package manager or from a terminal by typing the following command (they must be located in the folder where the package is):

sudo apt install ./midori_11.0.0_amd64.deb

And that's it, you can start using this browser on your system.