Midori v11.9.2.3 update brings performance improvements and better optimization

The Midori browser recently got an update, and this time, it’s focused on refinements, performance enhancements, and stability. There’s no headline feature, and user-facing changes are quite limited.

The latest version is v11.9.2.3, and it arrived a week after the previous version of the browser. You can view a screenshot of the changelog below.

I’ve updated the browser to the latest version, and it was a 19.39MB update on my end.

On the Google Play Store, the changelog mentions the same startup improvements and overall enhancements to RAM management.

Here are the major changes:

1. 22% faster startup time for Midori: When you tap on the Midori icon, it should open slightly faster than before and load up.
2. More efficient use of battery and better optimization of memory/RAM usage.
3. Performance improvements.
4. The engine powering Midori — the Gecko engine gets an update to v155.
5. Improvement in how a bookmark’s age is calculated.
6. Dynamic improvements when adding new tabs.

After closing the browser out of RAM, I also checked for the startup time improvement. It loads up immediately after tapping on the icon, but I didn’t feel the previous version was inherently “slower.”

The previous update, which we detailed before, brought built-in VPN, tab groups, and offline translations. It was a major feature drop with several user-facing changes. Expectedly, this one’s a noticeably softer release that’s mostly internal patchwork. Either way, we’d recommend updating to ensure it gets the latest security patches and has fewer bugs.

If you want to read the entire blog from Astian, which includes the official Release Notes, it’s linked here.

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