Samsung_Internet_for_Android

Samsung Internet

Samsung Internet

Android web browser developed by Samsung

Samsung Internet Browser (or simply Samsung Internet or S Browser[1]) is a desktop and mobile web browser developed by Samsung Electronics, based on the open-source Chromium project. It comes pre-installed on Samsung Galaxy devices and, since 2015, has been available for download from Google Play[2][3] for all Android devices. It is also available for their Tizen-based smartwatch via the Galaxy Store.

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Samsung estimated that it had around 400 million monthly active users in 2016. According to StatCounter, it had a market share of around 5.06% (among 69.37% for all Chrome variants) in January 2023.[4]

In November 2023, Samsung Internet was released on Microsoft Windows via the Microsoft Store. Its Windows release is currently unavailable, having been inexplicably removed from the Microsoft Store in January 2024.[5]

Engine

Around early 2013, it was decided to base the browser on Chromium, and the first Chromium-based version was shipped with the Samsung Galaxy S4 model later that year.[6]

Most of the code differences to the standard Chromium code base were introduced in order to support Samsung-specific hardware, such as Gear VR and biometric sensors.[7][8]

Features

  • Content blocking extensions[9]
  • Gear VR and DeX integration[10]
  • KNOX Support
  • Tabbed browsing with up to 99 tabs, where opening the 100th tab closes the earliest tab.[11]
  • Bookmark Synchronization
  • Ad Blocking
  • Reading Mode
  • Saved Pages
  • "Secret mode" and biometric authentication[12] (unavailable in Knox-tripped devices, which is disabled by eFuse hardware upon unlocking the bootloader[13])
  • Secure Web Auto Login
  • S Pen features
  • Find on pages
  • Support for service workers and Push API
  • Dark Mode
  • Customize Menu
  • Video Assistant
  • QR code scanner
  • Smart anti tracking

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The Saved Pages feature has been criticized for lack of data portability, due to the pages being stored in a locked directory from which they can not be exported and backed up by the user.[15][16]

Support

The later version (v6.2) of Samsung Internet for Android supports all Android 5.0 and above phones.[17]

Previously, (v5.0) Samsung Internet for Android was only supported on Samsung Galaxy and Google Nexus phones with Android 5.0 and above.[18]

Version history

Samsung Internet replaced the stock Android browser as the default on Samsung Galaxy devices in 2012.[19]

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