The last non-standard browser I’m going to write about is Midori, it showed up on N900 quite a while ago, but I’ve never had enough inspiration to take a closer look.

Midori goes to your application menu as green (‘midori’ means ‘green’ in japanese) icon and welcomes with speed dial page after launching. Page opening seems to be a little slow but looks pretty good and standard-compliant. Kinetic scrolling that most people use on Maemo 5 (because it’s default part of UI) needs some more effort to be perfect, but is already usable, even if it sometimes marks part of webpage. If you play a bit more time you may notice it has it’s own portrait mode, where you can still use keyboard. This is especially nice, because Midori allows you to modify keyboard shortcuts, so you it’s easy to make it very useful one-handed.

Midori apart from small glitches, mostly related to touchscreen UI in my opinion, has nice features, pretty good standards compatibility and may pretend to be equal among 5 browsers I’ve used on N900. Next time I’ll try to gather all of the browsers information with one comparison, including some benchmark results and then you can choose which is the best for you.

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