Announcement: Midori 11.1.3 more privacy.
In recent weeks, updates have been released in order to achieve quality and stability in Midori. But today we are launching the first update that focuses on privacy to reinforce this section, these adjustments impacting all operating systems, GNU/Linux, Windows and in the not too distant future MacOS.
Global Privacy Control
One of the most important and significant tools for privacy is Global Privacy Control, this is a tool that helps users communicate their intention not to be tracked online. The GPC is designed to offer users another option to control their data from their browsers in this case in Midori. Although Midori is based on Gecko, this option was not active until version 11.1.3.
Secure connections
In this version of Midori 11.1.3 we have implemented by default the HTTPS configuration for all sites, the path is also prepared for the update that will come with MidoriDNS
Private mode navigation
To make private browsing more private, we have implemented an improvement that prevents information from being saved in forms using this browsing mode.
References to Mozilla
Gecko is the engine that allows Midori to navigate the web. This engine is developed and used by Firefox. However, we have no relationship with this great organization. Therefore, in order to acquire technological independence, we have eliminated certain references among them:
- Connections to Cloudflare DNS through Mozilla.
- Reference to Mozilla Firefox support links.
- Connection references to Mozilla servers and services.
- Mozilla VPN promotion has been removed
- Mozilla DoH connections have been disabled.
Memory Management
We know that the lightness of Midori is one of the most important and essential points for many users, so for those users who have more than 8GB in RAM we have added an improvement that makes better use of memory in multimedia viewing, making May Midori be much more fluid.
Minor improvements
- New images for private browsing mode.
- Improvement in the browser’s language selection list in the settings menu.
- New parameters for importing data from other browsers.
Thanks to the entire Midori community in Spanish and English for their help and contributions, to our packagers josejp24, Loc-OS, nilsonmorales, Cuates.net, El Mau, testers and special thanks to our first donors Jorge Lius and Rogelio Jose Trujillo, Nico Informatica, thanks to them, we managed to correct these incidents.