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Re:Samsung Extends Android and Security Updates to 7 Years by hulium on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @08:22PM (#39036250)
Why not, it supports ad blockers so at least it is better than Chrome. Also it can put the URL bar at the bottom which makes much more sense on a phone.
Re:Samsung Extends Android and Security Updates to 7 Years by sundvor on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @08:47PM (#39036463)
Yup. I use the Samsung browser as my primary - thanks to the adblockers.
Re:Samsung Extends Android and Security Updates to 7 Years by FirmwareBurner on Thursday January 18, 2024 @05:37AM (#39040197)
But how do you sync it with your desktop browser? As in history, bookmarks, etc.
Re:Samsung Extends Android and Security Updates to 7 Years by tagamma on Thursday January 18, 2024 @03:59PM (#39047632)
I don't think you can.

At least I was not able to find a way to do that. That was the main reason I switched back to Firefox on mobile despite actually liking Samsung Internet more.

Re:Samsung Extends Android and Security Updates to 7 Years by sundvor on Saturday January 20, 2024 @12:13AM (#39064907)
Confirmed.

I tend to use my phone for personal research stuff mainly and Firefox on my desktop/laptop for work. I use bookmark syncing in Firefox, and that works great! But I generally don't need to synch from phone to desktop.

Having said this, I also had Firefox installed on my phone and on checking, see that ublock origin is available there!

Will give it a shot now. :-)

Re:Samsung Extends Android and Security Updates to 7 Years by sexy_seedbox on Thursday January 18, 2024 @01:07AM (#39038503)
Have you tried Kiwi Browser? You can install any extensions and it includes Developer Tools.
Re:Samsung Extends Android and Security Updates to 7 Years by btreecat on Thursday January 18, 2024 @07:41AM (#39041005)
Because mobile Firefox exists?
Re:Samsung Extends Android and Security Updates to 7 Years by adonese on Thursday January 18, 2024 @08:03AM (#39041173)
I don't really like samsung internet, it totally sucks. The half-assed adblocker is okayish, and the picture in picture is somewhat better than edge (stopped chrome long ago and edge is my main desktop browser).

Tried Firefox mobile, while I love the ublock origin, it kept constantly crashing that I eventually had to let go off. But yeah I'd definitely love to have a minimal android

Re:Samsung Extends Android and Security Updates to 7 Years by tortoise_in on Thursday January 18, 2024 @12:16PM (#39044459)
Wait you on hacker news and don't use Firefox?
Re:Samsung Extends Android and Security Updates to 7 Years by hulium on Thursday January 18, 2024 @03:54PM (#39047558)
I do use Firefox. I defended Samsung against Chrome in the category of preinstalled browsers, Firefox plays in a different league of course.