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Notices Two Things
*gasp* two new topics by mindlord in the same week? I must be really bored.
Since Midori is going to be the default browser on the P, I figured it would be a good idea to familiarize myself with it and see if it was going to really meet my needs. I used Ubuntu Tweak to add the Midori and Webkit PPA's and installed the lastest and greatest "stable" version. Stable is in quotes because it was anything but a stable experience.
This exercise was performed on two different machines, both running Ubuntu 9.10, the results were the same both times.
* It is freaky fast. REAL fast. Blink and you missed it fast. I can see why people are excited about it. The load time is almost instant on my craptastic work PC, and I swear it starts loading before I click the icon on my gaming rig at home.
* It is freaky small. I was hoping to replace Firefox with it for my daily browsing needs. My requirements are pretty low. I had few pages open and it was using a mere 70MB of RAM which is the least I've seen out of a graphical browser in years.
* It's pretty featureless. Which is bad. Some people will like that no-frills feel, but it lacks gui interfaces to some pretty basic browser stuff, like proxies. Which is very important to me. Things that don't have a gui yet can be edited in the config file, but that's anything but n00b friendly.
* What is doesn't lack is good though. It does support ad-blocking (off by default) and it's easy to set that up. So thumbs up there. It also supports greasemonkey-like user scripts. It's not 100% compatible, but works more or less as expected. It also has a built in user-agent switcher that supports the iPhone profile to save bandwidth and will help render pages better on the P's small screen.
* Speed-dial - a useful feature that deserves it's own bullet. When you open a new tab, instead of a blank page you get nine preview windows with user definable bookmarks in them. So you are just one click away from up to nine of your most visited websites and you don't have to eat up screen real-estate with a bookmark bar. Very smart to include this Firefox plugin-alike, I think.
* !Unstable as hell! - I sincerely hope that it's not this unstable on the Pandora, because DAMN! It crashes early and it crashes often. It's almost completely random, but certain things seem to trigger a crash more often than others. Flash on a website spells certain doom on Ubuntu for some reason. Sometimes just by clicking back on a page Midori will just vanish. Sometimes the vertical scroll bar would just vanish as well, but mostly on IPB based forums (like gp32x.de).
Anyone else tried/current using Midori? If you're happy with it, any tips on stabilizing it? I really like the speed and size, but can't tolerate the instability. I can live with the hard to configure proxies, since I only very rarely need them.
Since Midori is going to be the default browser on the P, I figured it would be a good idea to familiarize myself with it and see if it was going to really meet my needs. I used Ubuntu Tweak to add the Midori and Webkit PPA's and installed the lastest and greatest "stable" version. Stable is in quotes because it was anything but a stable experience.
This exercise was performed on two different machines, both running Ubuntu 9.10, the results were the same both times.
* It is freaky fast. REAL fast. Blink and you missed it fast. I can see why people are excited about it. The load time is almost instant on my craptastic work PC, and I swear it starts loading before I click the icon on my gaming rig at home.
* It is freaky small. I was hoping to replace Firefox with it for my daily browsing needs. My requirements are pretty low. I had few pages open and it was using a mere 70MB of RAM which is the least I've seen out of a graphical browser in years.
* It's pretty featureless. Which is bad. Some people will like that no-frills feel, but it lacks gui interfaces to some pretty basic browser stuff, like proxies. Which is very important to me. Things that don't have a gui yet can be edited in the config file, but that's anything but n00b friendly.
* What is doesn't lack is good though. It does support ad-blocking (off by default) and it's easy to set that up. So thumbs up there. It also supports greasemonkey-like user scripts. It's not 100% compatible, but works more or less as expected. It also has a built in user-agent switcher that supports the iPhone profile to save bandwidth and will help render pages better on the P's small screen.
* Speed-dial - a useful feature that deserves it's own bullet. When you open a new tab, instead of a blank page you get nine preview windows with user definable bookmarks in them. So you are just one click away from up to nine of your most visited websites and you don't have to eat up screen real-estate with a bookmark bar. Very smart to include this Firefox plugin-alike, I think.
* !Unstable as hell! - I sincerely hope that it's not this unstable on the Pandora, because DAMN! It crashes early and it crashes often. It's almost completely random, but certain things seem to trigger a crash more often than others. Flash on a website spells certain doom on Ubuntu for some reason. Sometimes just by clicking back on a page Midori will just vanish. Sometimes the vertical scroll bar would just vanish as well, but mostly on IPB based forums (like gp32x.de).
Anyone else tried/current using Midori? If you're happy with it, any tips on stabilizing it? I really like the speed and size, but can't tolerate the instability. I can live with the hard to configure proxies, since I only very rarely need them.
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