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Add to SafariWhen comparing Samsung Internet vs FOSS Browser, the Slant community recommends Samsung Internet for most people. In the question“What are the best Android web browsers?” Samsung Internet is ranked 19th while FOSS Browser is ranked 20th. The most important reason people chose Samsung Internet is:
Samsung allows this application to be installed to non-Samsung Android devices starting with Android 5.0 Lollipop.
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Pros
Pro Can be installed on any Android devices
Samsung allows this application to be installed to non-Samsung Android devices starting with Android 5.0 Lollipop.
Pro Ad-blocking features
Samsung Internet supports Ad-Blocking features such as AdBlock Plus, AdBlock, AdGuard, Disconnect etc., but must be installed separately through Google Play, which these apps can also used in other browser which supports Ad-Blocking.
Pro Sync with Google Chrome desktop app
Samsung Internet can sync the bookmarks and history to Google Chrome desktop app, where the Samsung Internet extension for Google Chrome is available.
Pro Picture-in-picture (PIP) video
Samsung Internet supports picture-in-picture (PIP) video, which means the video that played in this web browser can be pop-out and visible in the Android screen even if the browser is minimized.
Pro Light and smooth + has chrome extensions
Pro Notifications
Samsung Internet supports web notification from various websites such as Facebook, Telegram etc. which it will also works even if the browser is closed.
Pro Clean GUI
Pro Do Not Track features
Samsung recently collaborated with Disconnect to include do not tracking features to prevent any websites to track with each other.
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 Has the filter bubble
Like chrome, samsumg internet tracks you and filters your searches.
Con Not supported by Password Managers
BitWarden and LastPass do not work with the browser.
Con No data saving mode
Unlike Google Chrome or Opera, Samsung Internet does not comes with data saving mode which is a disadvantages for users who relies on limited data usage.
Con Android only
Android dropped older iOS support after about SI 3.
Con It's Google
Data collector!
Con Only for Samsung Devices
While the competitors are vendor-agnostic, this browser is only limited on Samsung devices and can't be found anywhere else unless you pull the APK for the browser itself from the device.
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.
