The milliseconds I waste having to tap tap tap on Whale drive me crazy. I love dragging down from the URL bar and tossing aside tabs, or else sliding within the URL bar to switch between them. This is a key reason I refuse to use Firefox or almost any other mobile browser. I hate that tab control is done via buttons. Tap an icon or else tab the little tab switcher icon to get a display of all your open tabs. Whale starts with a beautiful customizable New Tab page. Nice to see it built right into your mobile browsing. Plus Papago is a great translation service. I want a manual way to trigger that translation. I've always hated that Chrome decides when/if it will ask me if I want a page translated. Tap it to log into your Naver account.įor me, the Papago button to translate manually is a great feature. The circle icon at top is your profile.It brings up a box-style menu from the bottom (see above). Whereas you access a right-side vertical menu in mobile Chrome, here in Whale you tap the center of the bottom-screen (shown below) menu bar. Otherwise you can continue without signing-in by tapping the bottom link. If you want to sync your history/bookmarks/Belly/etc. Since I already have the Naver app on my phone and was signed-in, it presented my credentials right away. Then it will ask you if you want to sign-in to your Naver account. Just keep clicking the right link to go 'Next' or the left to skip this intro. Next it will outline a few of the new features. The second, about agreeing to send diagnostic data, is optional. When you first run Whale, it will ask to to agree to their policies. Whale's draw is that it's as smooth/secure as Chrome, but defaults into all the Naver ecosystem services that most Koreans use.Īnyway, I played around with it yesterday, and took extensive screenshots.

I'm sure they'll release an English version soon, as some settings are already showing up in English. Now the Android version is out, though note that the app is currently only in Korean. They released a desktop version awhile back for Windows, MacOS, and Linux, and even an English version. Whale is a browser made by Naver, based on Chrome. The post below highlights the Android version. Here is a screenshot tour highlighting the look and new features of Whale, plus my commentary and thoughts.

Naver has released the mobile version of their Whale browser for Android.

Whale Browser 3.21.192.18 downloading