Nick Veitch from TechRadar included Midori 0.2.2 in his 2010 list of the eight best web browsers for Linux. The major points for criticism are the absence of the process isolation, the low number of available extensions and occasional crashes.

The former Midori was recommended by Lifehacker due to its simplicity. In July 2015, Midori 0.5 on Windows 8 scored 325/555 on the updated HTML5 test. In March 2014, Midori scored 405/555 on the HTML5 test. Midori passed standard compliance Acid3 test. Midori is being packaged with Manjaro Linux and Trisquel Mini as their default web browser as well and it even was the default web browser in elementary OS and Bodhi Linux at one time.

Tab backup for the next session by default Midori was part of the standard Raspbian distribution for the Raspberry Pi ARMv6-based computer, while Dillo and NetSurf are also in the menu.

DuckDuckGo as a default search engine.

Extension modules can be written in C and Vala.

Support for integration with GTK2 and GTK3.It was the default browser in elementary OS 'Freya' and 'Luna', and Bodhi Linux. It was the default browser in the SliTaz Linux distribution, Trisquel Mini, Artix Linux, old versions of Raspbian, and wattOS in its 'R5 release'. This past Midori was part of the Xfce desktop environment's Goodies component and was once developed to follow the Xfce principle of 'making the most out of available resources'. It was a lightweight web browser, used the WebKitGTK rendering engine and the GTK widget toolkits.

Before the merge, Midori was a different browser.

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