CM Browser vs Midori
When comparing CM Browser vs Midori, the Slant community recommends Midori for most people. In the question“What are the best Android web browsers?” Midori is ranked 7th while CM Browser is ranked 35th. 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.
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Pros
Pro Fast
The browser attempts to preload pages you're about to visit, so when you click on the link to switch to a different page, it's already loaded and ready for you to use.
Pro Built-in popup blocker
The browser prevents sites from distracting you with pop-ups.
Pro Good looking UI
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.
Cons
Con Fullscreen will auto landscape
Will be troublesome if you want to view it portrait
Con Night mode has issues
as example it cause instagram image and story content gone
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.
