The Samsung Internet Story
Why Samsung Made a Web Browser
"A major handset manufacturer - based near London - are looking for a web developer / advocate to support developers building web applications on top of their browser...”
2012: Based on AOSP. 2013: Migrated to Chromium, launched with S4. Chromium M18 / M28 (v1.5)
2014: Launched with S5. Chromium M34
2015: Launched with S6. 1st version on Play Store. Chromium M38
2016: Launched with S7. PWA support. Chromium M44
“Yet another one to test!”
“Just give up on the Samsung stock browser and preload Chrome”
“I’m not going to buy a Samsung phone just to test on your browser!”
Mar 2017: First open beta available on Play Store. First version to support Pixel & Nexus phones.
May 2017: Launched with S8 (initially as v5.2) and soon after to all supported devices incl. Pixel & Nexus.
Generally:
“Awesome browser.”
“FAST with content blockers enabled.”
“Seriously the best browser. It's really fast and smooth.”
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