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With 18.0, we’re towers on the release of 17.0 which brought a consolidation and enhancement of privacy features as well as support for web authentication. We’ve moreover widow a few new features and UI tweaks. Let’s have a look!

Our new “text capture” full-length misogynist from the context menu will indulge you to select and reprinting text from images on websites. This full-length requires the latest OneUI (4.1.1) so is misogynist on newer Samsung devices.

Screen shots demonstrating the “text capture” feature — pressing the image brings up a contextual menu which includes the option to “extract text” which can then be selected.
Long-pressing an image will bring up the contextual menu with the new “Extract text” function. Selecting this will indulge you to select text from the image, then copy, share, or perform other actions.

We’ve tweaked the way our URL bar and tool bar can towards to make them increasingly user-friendly for foldable devices. And we’ve moreover enhanced the tab user wits by subtracting a “close tab” button.

Smart Anti-Tracking now moreover protects versus trackers that use CNAME cloaking — a relatively new way that third party tracking networks are trying to skirt tracking protection technologies by posing as the first party. We’ve moreover improved the way the Smart Anti-Tracking deals with vellicate tracking and window.name tracking — making your browsing increasingly secure and private.

With 18.0 we will moreover be rewriting http links to https by default — making your browsing increasingly secure and private. This full-length has moreover moved from our Labs to the Privacy Dashboard menu.

We’ve widow a new option to be enable apps to indulge links to be opened directly in Samsung Internet secret (private browsing) mode. This option is enabled by default, but you can turn it off from Settings > Personal browsing data > Secret mode settings > Open links from other apps in Secret mode.

If you’re using Samsung Internet in Samsung’s secure environment (“Secure Folder”) on your phone, you can now moreover use extensions in that environment.

18.0 moreover updates the underlying Chromium engine to verion 99. You can download 18.0 Beta (to any Android device) via the Galaxy Store or Play Store: https://galaxy.store/internetbeta.

18.0 Beta: Enhanced Privacy, Enhanced UI was originally published in Samsung Internet Developers on Medium, where people are standing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.