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0 pointswvenable4y ago0 comments

When was the last time you tried a Samsung device? They've continued to improve on everything. Most Samsung users tend to agree that Samsung's first party apps are now better than the stock Android ones: Samsung browser, notes, health app, etc. The One UI interface is clean and much more consistent from version to version than whatever "flavor of the month" Google is doing with stock Android.

I will agree that in the era you last saw it, it was awful.

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na854y ago· 5 in thread

>Samsung browser

At least as far as browsers go, I think it's best to stick to the big 3 platforms which are Safari, Firefox, and Chrome.

Who knows what security vulnerabilities have been introduced by Samsung on top of whatever engine they use?

I would never trust the Samsung browser.

perryizgr84y ago

Internet is heavily optimized, compared to Chrome or Firefox. It feels much faster in usage, and consumes much lesser battery. It has a lot of features too, so that is a plus. Oh, and they understand the advantage of a consistent, stable UI. Things don't move around for no reason from update to update. I love the reliability that provides.

I have exclusively used it for years, can't say that I've heard of any vulnerabilities that affect only Internet.

PS: funny that people are bashing Samsung on a thread with a silly Google bug. This is exactly the sort of thing that never breaks on Samsung devices. QR codes have been a solved problem for years. If Google cannot avoid breakage here, wonder what critical infra they keep breaking without us knowing.

salamandersauce4y ago

I don't even think it's installed by default anymore either. It's not on my Galaxy Tab S6 Lite, Chrome was installed by default although it was pre-installed on my slightly older A51. It's basically just Chromium with a few tweaks.

They do have some very nice tweaks to Android. You can put apps in floating windows if you want or by hands, quarters whatever. You can even change the opacity of windows which is nice for using a photo as reference image while drawing for example. Dex has been handy a few times too.

easrng4y ago

Floating windows works fine on stock, I don't remember what command you need but iirc the Taskbar app has instructions for enabling them with adb.

wvenableOP4y ago

Samsung browser is, of course, based on Chromium and it's full of additional privacy protections, support for ad blockers, a private browsing mode that's better than most other browsers (desktop or mobile) that I've tried. And you can have actual browser tabs if you want.

Firefox is my desktop browser and it was also my mobile browser until Mozilla dumbed it down to the point of being useless.

na854y ago

>Firefox is my desktop browser and it was also my mobile browser until Mozilla dumbed it down to the point of being useless.

I use Firefox on mobile every day. Works great for me. All I really need is ublock origin.

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