Midori Update Brings Revamped Speed Dial, Bug Fixes

A new release of lightweight webkit web-browser Midori is now available with improvements made to the applications’ stability, looks and performance.

Midori 0.4.2 denotes you’re visiting a ‘secure’ website by giving the URL bar a green background: –

Midori’s “Speed dial” is also improved. Website thumbnails will automatically resize based on the width of the application window, and ‘close’ buttons appear when you hover over a thumbnail so that you can remove websites from appearing: –

A menu entry for creating a ‘desktop launcher’ from a website has been added to the menu: –

Also featuring are fixes for Midori’s ‘bookmark dialog’ crash, and more comprehensive CSS/Userstyle support.

A full change-log of what’s new and improved in Midori 0.4.2 can be found here.

Install Midori 0.4.2

Midori 0.4.2 can be downloaded as source from the Midori website.

Alternatively, Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10 users can install it by adding the Midori Dev PPA to their list of software sources, updating, and then installing or upgrading the midoripackage.