By 2016, Samsung estimated that the browser had approximately 400 million active monthly users, making it one of the most widely used browsers in the world. Additionally, Samsung brought the browser to Tizen smartwatches via the Samsung Galaxy Store. The first iteration of the new browser shipped with a version of the Galaxy S4 later that year.Īs Samsung Internet gained popularity, the company made the browser available for download on the Google Play Store in 2015, making it accessible to a wider audience. The company considered other options like WebKit, Gecko, and Blink but ultimately chose Chromium because of its open source nature, speed, and compatibility with web standards.
However, around a year later, in 2013, the OEM decided to base the browser on the Chromium project, which was first launched by Google in 2008. In its early days, Samsung Internet was not based on Chrome. While the browser was not created solely for mobiles or just for the sake of having a browser, it quickly became a vital component of the Samsung ecosystem. It was introduced as the default option on Samsung Galaxy devices, with the company's main goal to bring the web to its products, including tablets, Gear Watch, smart TVs, Gear VR, and home appliances. Samsung Internet has an intriguing history that begins with its creation in 2012. I have both on 1.83-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 from focal-updates.SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT A brief history of Samsung Internet On this Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) installation, I also happened to have this transitional chromium-browser package, which is probably not needed at all, but it also provides a (useless?) wrapper and made me try a matching chromium-chromedriver package version first. The executable is on the the PATH already: /snap/bin/chromium.chromedriver.Īnd if you also happen to use a vanilla selenium which searches for chromedriver in the PATH, the supposedly transitional do-nothing-package chromium-chromedriver (dpkg) is actually providing that: an “executable” (shell-script) /usr/bin/chromedriver exec-ing the above mentioned snap version.
If you happen to run Ubuntu, which switched to that questionable Chromium snap, a fitting chromedriver is already included. On Ubuntu, I managed to run Chromium by launching it from Selenium like a standard Chrome without any modifications by installing the chromium-chromedriver package.
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