14 DAY TRIAL // Samsung Internet Browser is one of the best browsers currently available on mobile devices, and the South Korean company is constantly looking into ways to further refine the experience with the app.
As a result, the beta build of Samsung Internet is regularly updated with new features, though the latest release comes with a surprising change that many may not be a big fan of.
The address bar has been moved from the top of the screen to the bottom, as part of a change that’s supposed to make the browser easier to use with just one hand.
At the first glance, this makes perfect sense, especially because the screen size of Samsung’s devices is continuously increasing.
Not Apple’s idea though
But on the other hand, moving the address bar from the top to the bottom is happening literally just a few months after Apple did the same thing. And in Apple’s world, this idea hasn’t necessarily been well received by the iPhone fanbase, so the company eventually decided to add a toggle that would allow users to restore the address bar to the top of the screen.
The idea to display an address bar at the bottom, however, isn’t new, and other mobile browsers have previously experimented with this approach as well.
For example, Microsoft was one of the first companies to think of an address bar at the bottom of the screen as part of Windows phones, but everybody knows how the whole thing came to end. Google Chrome also experimented with a similar change.
At this point, Samsung is making this update available only for beta users, but it’s probably just a matter of time until everybody gets it. And in pure Apple style, expect Samsung to also include a toggle that would allow users to move it back to the top if needed.