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Midori Tips & Tweaks

I am writing this guide since Midori is the default browser in Slitaz 3. Your first thought may be to install Firefox and not giving Midori a try because it lacks features. I thought it lacked features or Addon's also until I dug around some. If you want to know the history of Midori visit it's Wiki page: Midori Wiki

Things that I will cover:

Ad Blocking
Custom Search Engines
Flash Blocking
UserSripts

Enabling Extensions

Upon opening Midori click on Tools, Go down to Extensions and click on it. This should open up a panel that display boxes that you can check to enable different Extensions or Options. Check only the boxes you wish to enable. I would enable Statusbar Features and Toolbar Editor right now. Everything involving those two should be self explantory. So no need for a “HowTo”. I would tell you what other things to enable right now, but if someone adds to this wiki then this paragraph would need to be edited. So if anything needs to be enabled I will mention it as I go along.

Ad Blocking

In extensions enable: Advertisement blocker

Most people like ad blocking that FireFox has through an extension called Adblock Plus(ABP). Well Midori has an adblocker that uses the well known “easylist” from ABP. Now that you have it enabled we need to edit it. Click on Tools, clicking on Configure Adertisement filters. This should now open a box looking like this:

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From the picture you can see that adding a ruleset is pretty self explanatory. As an example click on Add, then insert the following URL: http://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt

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Ok now to block a single image just right click on the image on the page you want to block. Go down to Block Image and click Add. Now that image is blocked.

Managing Search Engines

No extension needs to be enabled for this feature.

This is one of my favorite things in any browser. I use this for other things then just search engines. I will share that later. Click on Tools, then click on Manage Search Engines Just like Ad blocking you should get a box to pop up that looks like this:

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Since I don't really use anything else but google I am just going to add Yahoo! as an example of how to add it and use it. Click add and fill it in to look like this:

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Once that is done go up to the URL bar in midori and type: “y slitaz” without the quotes. You should now see the yahoo search results for slitaz. Typing “g slitaz” again without the quotes would give you the google results for slitaz.

Here is what I use it for besides search engines. In Opera when you bookmark something you can make a nickname for the site. I have the letters: fs for http://forum.slitaz.org. So I just type “fs” without the quotes in the urlbar to go SliTaz's forum. Now I don't see this feature in Midori so I just make a custom search engine like I did for Yahoo!. I am not really adding a search just using it as a shortcut. I think for the pictures I added that it is self explanatory how to add any site you want to make a shortcut for.

For all you twitter users or people that like shortened urls. Add this to custom searches:

http://is.gd/create.php?longurl=

I give mine the Token letter “u”. When I have a big url I want to shorten I go to the URL bar and go to the left of the http: in the url then I type “u”. Then press space and enter and it takes me to that site and shortens the url. For those who hate using the mouse like me and want to shorten url's you can do the same thing above like this. Ctrl-L, Left Arrow key, type u, spacebar, then enter. If you have javascript enabled then the shortened url should already be highlighted. So a quick Ctrl-c should copy it for you.

 
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