When comparing Midori vs Firefox Nightly, the Slant community recommends Firefox Nightly for most people. In the question“What are the best desktop web browsers?” Firefox Nightly is ranked 22nd while Midori is ranked 26th. The most important reason people chose Firefox Nightly is:
Nightly comes after beta which means you get access to more features.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Very fast
Midori is considerably fast. It starts up in no time and renders pages as fast as many other more well-known browsers.
Pro Lightweight
Incredibly lightweight with very little memory consumption.
Pro Allows using webapps as if they were desktop apps
Midori has a built-in functionality with which you can create web apps that can be launched from the desktop. For example, you can create a web app for the desktop to launch Gmail or YouTube or any other web app that you use.
Pro Available on several distributions
Midori is used as a default choice for a web browser for some distributions (like Elementary OS) and it's available for easy downloading for many other distros through their official repositories.
Pro Useful plugins are built-in
Some very popular and useful plugins are built-in and available out of the box. For example, there's an RSS feed reader plugin and an Adblocker built-in.
Pro Access to new features
Nightly comes after beta which means you get access to more features.
Pro Blazing fast
Short load times. Quick tab switching. Fast rendering.
Pro Private and secure
Made with privacy and security in mind, even Tor based their browser on it.
Cons
Con Development stalled
There have been no recent updates. Lags other browsers in supporting modern web standards. Many distributions have replaced it with other browsers.
Con Abandonned
Con Misbehaves with Google Web Apps
On some distributions Midori may not work very well for Google Web Apps. On openSUSE for example, Midori starts misbehaving when you are going through Google Drive's folder hierarchy.
Con Supports insecure cipher suites
This browser supports RC4 encryption which is known to be insecure compared to other encryptions such as AES.
Con Another bloatware as Firefox
It is described as a lightweight browser but it is just a bloatware. It crashes sometimes. It is a clone of Firefox which is said to be a RAM-eater.
Con Unfamiliar UI
The UI can take a little to getting used to because it's not very conventional or similar to other browsers. For example, it uses a trashcan icon to view recently visited links.
Con Buggy; performance issues and crashes
Because you're accessing new Firefox features, bugs and crashing comes. Firefox Nightly is meant for developers and it's for PCs that have low chance of getting attacked. If Firefox is for you, go for the normal one or beta at least. If you use Nightly, checking updates regularly is recommended.
Con The icon is ugly
Con Not intended for general use
This browser was made for testing purposes for future versions of Firefox, and it can easily crash. Most people should use the stable release of Firefox.