this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Midori has been around for a while.

I remember trying it out years ago on older hardware that lagged with Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Same. Many years ago, I tried a bunch of low spec browsers, and Midori was the best one at the time.

All the others were really light and stripped down, which also made them pretty much completely incompatible with the modern web. So what exactly can you browse with them, if not the web, I was left wondering. Well, Midori was the best compromise. It’s very light, but still capable of doing things.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

That still exists???

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Nice to see some competitors to Firefox, Chrome, and all their forks

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is definitely a Firefox fork, the images of the UI are near identical to Firefox, and the one with addons shows the option to search addons.mozilla.org

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's based on webkit, so it's a Safari relative.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

it used to be, before it got purchased by its current owner. now it's a Firefox fork.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_%28web_browser%29

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It used to be webkit, but it was rebased on Firefox and uses Gecko now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Ah, I missed the rewrite. I mau jabe to check it out again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

They even tried Chromium base at some point.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Its a derivative of Firefox.