

You can customize the theme’s background, text, and tab colors. UCB provides an option to hide the status bar. The browser provides a typing assistant feature that records the words/phrases you use often and recommends them when you enter characters in the text box. UC enables you to change the tab view to the “card” or “list” view. You can configure the browser to scroll down/up a page by tapping on the screen. They can also use the phone’s volume up and down keys as a page scroller. Users of the UC browser app can open the previous or next page by swiping. They support the “Force-to-zoom” function.

UCB and Chrome allow users to change the text font size on web pages. When the user taps the URL, the browser will open the preloaded page. When you enable preloading, the browser loads the URLs embedded in a page in the phone’s memory. You can turn on preloading for non-wap pages. When users turn on the data saver mode, the server of Google or Alibaba will compress the pages before sending them to the user’s browsers.Īlso see: Best news apps for Android and iPhone Preloading ScreenshotsĬhrome and UCB ship with a data saver function. Chrome ships with a safe browsing feature that prevents users from opening malicious URLs. UC browser won’t open a new tab when users select the “Incognito” option, but Chrome does. Both browsers support private aka Incognito browsing. There hasn’t been a major Chrome security issue reported to date. Last month, Google had banned UCB from the Play Store for employing unhealthy tactics for installing Alibaba’s other apps. In 2015, a news story went viral on the internet claiming that UCB leaks sensitive information of the user. Google Chrome is compatible with the following 3 OS:Īlthough both browsers are based on the same project, UCB has been in the news for the wrong reasons. UC Browser supports the following operating systems: You can change it from the setting’s interface. Google is the default search engine in both browsers. To do so, open the following URL in the browser’s address bar chrome://flags. To disable the Chrome news feed, you must change the Chrome Flag Settings. Unfortunately, neither of the browsers provides an option to turn off the news module. It also flaunts a search box and bookmarks to eCommerce, video streaming, and social networking websites. It displays news from some of the top news websites. The main interface of the UC and Google Chrome browsers is ugly.
