Chrome vs Samsung Browser

[zakaweb]

I use Edge, it works well with the desktop browser. It was buggy as hell initially but now works perfectly for my needs.

 

[maher shtat]

I am using mainly Samsung stock browse as i feel more secured and better privacy.
Then firefox come next and chrome as a third on the list.

 

[Lucas_Skyline]

I would like to use Samsung, but I'm stuck with Chrome because of my multi platform setup. I use my personal computer, my company's computer and my phone all day. Does anyone know a way to sync for/from the Samsung browser?

 

[Onkel Per]

Pixel 2 XL, 3 XL and now on my S10+.
Maybe you just aren't as observant as others.

Sorry, your observation are incorrect

 

[davebwi]

For me Samsung browser on Android is the nicest one for me.

I didn't like it two days ago after my Pie update (Note 8) because they embedded the favorites button in the options area making it 3 steps to choose a fav. But they updated the browser last night and all is well.

I believe it uses the Chromium project so it's pretty much a Chrome browser so performance I find identical as far as loading pages and most features like drag down to reload a page and swipe left and right on address bar to swipe tabs.

But for me the UI in Samsung is just more friendly and faster... just having the back, forward, (especially the) favorites, tab buttons on the bottom makes all the difference in the world.

If anyone can tell me if it's possible to put those options on the bottom in Chrome please let me know and I might change because the one feature in Chrome that I have been wishing for since leaving iOS has just been added... swiping left and right to go back and forward webpages!!

You have to enable it in flags (chrome://flags/#enable-gesture-navigation) but it works so nice. Unfortunately, the flag doesn't show in Samsung flags.

So for now. Samsung Internet Browser FTW.

 

[davebwi]

I like samsung browser, but use edge cause it syncs with edge on desktop

 

[Haley Chris]

Samsung Browser....Also Via Browser is Pretty Good Or Brave Browser Only 3 I Will Use

 

[Sai Krishna13]

I have always been a fan of the S series lineup and religiously have been upgrading since the S2.

Well until the S8 I never looked beyond the Samsung browser, but then Firefox somehow got the better out of the pre installed browsers on my phone.

Keeping the trend, I have been using the Firefox Nightly, and it does not get any better than this.

 

[Nyvideo]

I've started using the Samsung browser and really like it so far. I use Swiftkey for my keyboard and it doesn't recognize I'm using that browser so everytime I type a period in a url it spaces and does a cap for the word. With chrome and firefox it recognizes it's a browser and I'm typing a url

 

[bellasara25]

I use Samsung browser as well, it's smooth, fast and pairs with all my devices.
On my mobile it is the best at blocking ads and such.

 

[dlalonde]

I would use the Samsung Browser because it's great BUT there are two things that annoy me.

1- Syncing bookmarks from Chrome is a pain in the butt. When you save a bookmark it appears automatically in Chrome on Android. If you use the Samsung extension, you have to replace all your bookmarks by the one in Chrome manually everytime.

2- This is the biggest annoyance (I could live with the first one honestly). Every time I get on a page it's slightly zoomed in so there's a horizontal scrolling bar which makes the page move from left to right when scrolling. When you're reading it's kind of annoying. No other browser do that (I tried Chrome, Edge, Firefox).

 

[donm527]

For number two, I am guessing that there was a time you were web browsing and you accidentally used pinch to zoom and zoomed the page (this also workd like this in Chrome)...

Go to any website and just pinch the page back to 100%. That will eliminate the horizontal scrolling on future pages.

I would use the Samsung Browser because it's great BUT there are two things that annoy me.

1- Syncing bookmarks from Chrome is a pain in the butt. When you save a bookmark it appears automatically in Chrome on Android. If you use the Samsung extension, you have to replace all your bookmarks by the one in Chrome manually everytime.

2- This is the biggest annoyance (I could live with the first one honestly). Every time I get on a page it's slightly zoomed in so there's a horizontal scrolling bar which makes the page move from left to right when scrolling. When you're reading it's kind of annoying. No other browser do that (I tried Chrome, Edge, Firefox).

 

[dlalonde]

For number two, I am guessing that there was a time you were web browsing and you accidentally used pinch to zoom and zoomed the page (this also workd like this in Chrome)...

Go to any website and just pinch the page back to 100%. That will eliminate the horizontal scrolling on future pages.

Thanks. But I've thought about that but that wasn't it. It's kind of systematic too. Plus like I said it never happens with any other browser whereas it's been happening for a while on Samsung Browser. It's a shame though because otherwise it is great. It's just a small annoyance.

 

[donm527]

hmm, interesting. Well it's definitely not a stock setting and doubt it came that way out of box. A setting change or an app has probably affected it.

Thanks. But I've thought about that but that wasn't it. It's kind of systematic too. Plus like I said it never happens with any other browser whereas it's been happening for a while on Samsung Browser. It's a shame though because otherwise it is great. It's just a small annoyance.

 

[ruiinplano]

Only use it with secret mode in my Samsung browser!

 

[fightcrazy]

Use to only use Chrome. As of my old S8, use only the stock Samsung Browser. I like the Samsung Pass, works great. Save downloads to SD Card. Just many great features.
Vinny

 

[PsychDoc]

Try Opera. Better than any other browser. Does text reflow so everything formats perfectly to the screen no matter how much you zoom in or out.

 

[konvajw]

Try Opera. Better than any other browser. Does text reflow so everything formats perfectly to the screen no matter how much you zoom in or out.

Agree. Which version of opera do you use (standard, mini, touch)? I've been using opera mini, but get confused on differences between versions so not sure which is best overall.

 

[PsychDoc]

Agree. Which version of opera do you use (standard, mini, touch)? I've been using opera mini, but get confused on differences between versions so not sure which is best overall.

Standard. It's wonderful!

 

[Golurk]

Chrome is absolutely trash on mobile, Pop-up ads like crazy. Samsung's browser is the best mobile browser by far with Ad blocking at it finest.

I agree. Although I didn’t experience pop-up ads, I feel that what Google has done is simply make Chrome icons smaller for phones which doesn’t work very well. Samsung Internet is surprisingly good. I love all the cool features that come with it such as Dark Mode, text size and ad-blockers.

Chrome is great on a computer or tablet...but on a phone Samsung Internet is unrivalled in my opinion