Did you miss more options when it comes to web browsers? well take Ulaa, Zoho’s browser for PC (Linux, Mac, Windows) and mobile (Android, iOS) and a new Chromium derivative with its own peculiarities to add to the list.
But first, let’s make a brief introduction to Zoho, an Indian company in the purest style of the old Google for whose aesthetics and offer it was compared in its day with the Internet giant. Even today they are somewhat similar, and that is that with a Zoho account you have access to a large ecosystem of productivity applications in the cloud such as email, documents, calendar, notes, etc.
Well, Zoho already has its own web browser based on Chromium (113), Ulaa, which is still in beta for mobile phones, but which has a stable version on PC. And it is, to say the least, a curious project due to the mix of well-known, but also exclusive features that it offers. Its developers describe Ulaa as “a browser that respects your privacy, protects your personal data, and is designed to update the way you work.”
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According to the information contained in the official site of Ulaa, the browser has numerous security and privacy features such as anonymous statistics, a 24-hour security update policy, automatic updating on all platforms, automatic browser ID reset, geolocation isolation, blocking of cookies and other data with third parties, no use of compromised APIs…
In the absence of testing it, the truth is that the privacy and security section of Ulaa is full of options, including blocking advertising and trackers, tracking fingerprints, social media filters, mining…
Secondly, Ulaa stands out for focusing on the productivity with tools such as its own tab manager, smart tab grouping, a new tab page designed to provide a quick glance at data, integration with Zoho Notes, and a selection of use-case preset modes to separate the different activities you one can perform with the browser.
Those modes are personal, work, children, development and one more that basically leaves the browser in a kind of zero kilometer for the user to use it however they want. But what exactly does this mode consist of? In the type and arrangement of features that Ulaa brings to the fore, or by limiting some things, as happens with child mode.
To quickly switch from one to the other, the dynamic switch mode, another exclusive feature of Ulaa.
Of course, Ulaa also offers data synchronization between devicesfor which all you need is a Zoho account, which in turn gives you access to a bunch of other services.
For the rest, and in the absence of trying it properly, Ulaa is what you would expect from any modern derivative of Chromium: a fast, stable browser -at least with a short and easy use- and compatible with Chrome extensions, with which it shares many of the characteristics directly inherited from Chromium… And which it seems to want, in a very shabby way, to copy up to the hideous logo and app icon. Another thing you need is to complete the translation to other languages.
