Samsung Internet is finally jumping to PC, and it’s been a long time coming

Samsung has officially announced the first beta build of its in-house Internet Browser for the Windows 11 platform. Marketed as Samsung Internet for PC, the pre-release browser application will be available to download starting October 30, 2025, but only within the United States and in Samsung’s domestic market of South Korea. Curiously, despite Windows 10 no longer receiving mainstream support from Microsoft, Samsung says its browser is also available for Windows 10 users running version 1809 and above.

Under the hood, Samsung Internet uses the same open-source Chromium technology that powers Google Chrome and a great majority of other web browsers out there. It also relies on the same Blink rendering engine as most of its contemporaries. Until now, the browser has been exclusively available for mobile devices running Android, Wear OS, and Tizen, and so the leap to a full-fledged PC release is a notable one.

The company highlights seamless syncing of user data — including Samsung Pass credentials — between devices, anti-tracking features, a real-time Privacy Dashboard, and an AI Browsing Assist for web page summarization and translation. It’s worth noting that the browser’s big-screen interface isn’t entirely new: Samsung DeX users have been able to use the browser in a PC-esque manner for several years now.

Samsung Internet is finally exploring new frontiers

The web browser is ready to expand beyond the Galaxy

Across both desktop and mobile, the web browser market is a hard nut to crack. By this point, just about everyone has settled into a comfortable rhythm with their browsing app of choice, whether it be Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, or one of the several smaller-scale competitors on the market.

Samsung has an advantage up its sleeve in the form of mobile hardware market penetration. Every single Galaxy smartphone and tablet (and there’s a lot of them out there) ships with Samsung Internet as the default web browsing client. While many Android users go out of their way to use Chrome, a non-insignificant number of users simply stick with the preconfigured setup available out of the box.

…a web browser is only as useful as it is ubiquitous — most of us like to have our bookmarks, history, passwords, and payment details synced across our devices automatically.

The problem is that a web browser is only as useful as it is ubiquitous — most of us like to have our bookmarks, history, passwords, and payment details synced across our devices automatically, which requires cross-platform software. Until now, Samsung Internet has been available on Android via the Google Play Store and the Samsung Galaxy Store, but not on the Apple App Store or on the Microsoft Store.

With Samsung Internet now available for Windows 11 PCs in beta form, it’s only a matter of time before the browser hits stability and is made available across the broader consumer base. This development, along with the growing popularity of Samsung DeX and the upcoming merger of ChromeOS and Android, might just result in Samsung Internet finding its way onto a lot more users’ desktop setups in the not-too-distant future.