ANNOUNCE: midori 0.4.9 released

Christian Dywan christian at twotoasts.de
Thu Mar 7 19:09:26 CET 2013


midori 0.4.9 is now available for download from
  
  http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/midori/0.4/midori-0.4.9.tar.bz2
  http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/midori/0.4/midori-0.4.9.tar.bz2.md5
  http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/midori/0.4/midori-0.4.9.tar.bz2.sha1

  SHA1 checksum: c845ced87ee758472d8e5e2080a5b2b1d4f2d041
   MD5 checksum: d2b3c436c08022f47a0db6bca3772790


What is midori?
===============

Native GTK+2/ GTK+3 and WebKit.
High focus on Private browsing, user scripts and customizable keyboard
interface.
Adblock, form history, cookie management, RSS feed panel, external
download managers (wget, SteadyFlow, FlashGet).

Website: 
  http://www.twotoasts.de/index.php?/pages/midori_summary.html


Release notes for 0.4.9
=======================
It's this time of the month again. Midori 0.4.9 is there, 3 weeks of
features and 1 week of bug fixes is the new mantra, giving everyone
higher quality as a result.

Anyone experiencing crashes on closing Adlock preferences, using
Backspace in the urlbar under the wrong circumstances or attaching the
inspector will rejoice, those buglets were resolved. Along with a
resizing issue in the news feed extension and possible loss of the saved
tab session if the disk is full.

A new extension is being developed to manage cookie accept behavior per
domain. Too late for feature freeze it's excempt from stable installs,
but interested folks can try it in a build from source, likely to be
available in the next cycle.

Midori relies on GTK+ 3.4 touchscreen support now, including kinetic
scrolling. This lets us drop extra support code and rely on the same
code used by other applications.

As a small bonus, 'Google Translate (gt)' was added to the default
search engines. Use "gt WORD" or "gt URL" to translate using Google's
translation service. You can also right-click a selected word and use
'Search with' to the same effect.

Evidently the coolest thing to announce is WebKit2 preparation - again,
preparation not full support. Indeed --enable-webkit2 will build Midori
with the multi-process API. Most non-trivial features are silently
missing but it's the first step into a shiny new world.


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