When comparing Midori vs FOSS Browser, the Slant community recommends Midori for most people. In the question“What are the best Android web browsers?” Midori is ranked 7th while FOSS Browser is ranked 20th. The most important reason people chose Midori is:
Midori is considerably fast. It starts up in no time and renders pages as fast as many other more well-known browsers.
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 FOSS
The name itself suggest FOSS (Free Open Source Software).
Pro Respects your privacy better than all other Chromium based browsers
Requires more flexibility if possible.
Pro No trackers
Recent version of app.
Pro Excellent flexible app user data management
Complete user's custom browser settings, database (site settings such as whitelisting, etc.) and bookmarks can be exported (as a backup) and then imported (to be restored for later use).
Important Note:
Before uninstalling and reinstalling the browser app, create an archive or a copy of the already backed-up data of it to another location of data storage.
Pro UI/Handling
Optimized for one hand handling (toolbar at bottom).
Pro Multi tab browsing
Tab control (switch, open, close unlimited tabs) mentioned by developer, supported (limit to device available memory).
Pro Websearch (from marked text context menu)
Pro Search on site
Pro Advanced gesture control for toolbar and navigation button
Pro Fast toggle for most important settings
Pro Navigation button in fullscreen mode
Pro Do not track me
Mentioned by developer.
Pro Delete data on exit (optional)
Mentioned by developer.
Pro Toggle image/third party content loading
Mentioned by developer.
Pro Whitelist from setting
Whitelist for javascript, cookies and adblocker.
Pro Third party cookies disabled by default
Mentioned by developer.
Pro Custom user agent switcher
Supported & adaptive (most flexible).
Pro Save web page as PDF (URL to PDF)
Supported (but check complexity of web page).
Pro App optimization
Installation size under 10 to 20 MB (depends upon OEM manufacturer & data usage by user).
Pro Adblock filters
Supported.
Pro Excellent Bookmarks Management
Import & Export Bookmarks, very few browsers have this rare functionality.
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 Android permission location
Today, most browser developers put 2 location permissions: 1) Precise & 2) Approximate, most people search goods & services "by typing name of specific region or place".
i.e: books library in "name of city"
So, is there any need to such permissions which is a privacy concern ?
Con Github users may track you
Con Backed by Github.com
Github is known for making it open source, and hosting tech pros, open source user, and others. This was made to be better then Chrome.
