Midori is a lightweight web browser with the following features: Full integration with GTK+2; Fast rendering with WebKit; Tabs, windows and session management; Bookmarks are stored with XBEL; Searchbox based on OpenSearch; Custom context menu actions; User scripts and user styles support; Extensible via Lua scripts....
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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braydon
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I tried this out, but it crashed
I tried this out, but it crashed on me a few times. Granted it is still very early. I also didn't seem much that was particularly unique about it, unless I am missing something.
braydon
4 years 26 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago
I am really in need of a more robust
I am really in need of a more robust web browser. Firefox crashes on me all the time, so I use Swiftfox which seems to help out a lot. With heavy use the interface doesn't hang though. Tabs just don't cut it. Bookmarks, are fairly useless nowadays, as well. If you're gonna do a new browser, at least make the interface radically different. For example try getting rid of the menubar in replacement of pie menus. Or try and move beyond tabs, with something that is more extensible. Or maybe even create a browser with OpenGL support for arranging "tabs" or windows, like COMPIZ. There is a lot of options, that I haven't seen explored, it's depressing when it's just a clone of every other interface we've seen from a web browser. Perhaps their explorations are more transparent to the user...