On the surface, Silk looks and performs similarly to other popular web browsers, and doesn’t feature much in the way of a learning curve either. While you’ll be able to manually key in web addresses, Amazon puts a big emphasis on Alexa-powered voice searches when browsing the web. Bookmarking your favorite sites, streaming videos, and checking up on social media are all things you can do with Silk, and you’ll even be able to customize certain settings and UI elements (like the color of the cursor) for a more personalized browsing experience.
Silk’s overall performance is relatively zippy, with most pages loading in just seconds. To accommodate the hardware limitations of devices like the Fire TV Stick, Silk will often load the mobile versions of certain pages. Silk will also load up sites with larger font sizes, in order to best serve the bigger TV screens your Silk content will likely be appearing on. In many cases, embedded videos can even be sized to take up the full real estate of your 65-inch LED, LCD, or OLED panel.
Silk will even preload webpages the browser believes you might search for next, another means of optimizing performance without putting a ton of strain on the hardware the browser is running on.
On the surface, Silk looks and performs similarly to other popular web browsers, and doesn’t feature much in the way of a learning curve either.
While you’ll be able to manually key in web addresses, Amazon puts a big emphasis on Alexa-powered voice searches when browsing the web.
To accommodate the hardware limitations of devices like the Fire TV Stick, Silk will often load the mobile versions of certain pages.
Silk will also load up sites with larger font sizes, in order to best serve the bigger TV screens your Silk content will likely be appearing on.
Silk will even preload webpages the browser believes you might search for next, another means of optimizing performance without putting a ton of strain on the hardware the browser is running on.
On the surface, Silk looks and performs similarly to other popular web browsers, and doesn’t feature much in the way of a learning curve either. While you’ll be able to manually key in web addresses, Amazon puts a big emphasis on Alexa-powered voice searches when browsing the web. Bookmarking your favorite sites, streaming videos, and checking up on social media are all things you can do with Silk, and you’ll even be able to customize certain settings and UI elements (like the color of the cursor) for a more personalized browsing experience.
Silk’s overall performance is relatively zippy, with most pages loading in just seconds. To accommodate the hardware limitations of devices like the Fire TV Stick, Silk will often load the mobile versions of certain pages. Silk will also load up sites with larger font sizes, in order to best serve the bigger TV screens your Silk content will likely be appearing on. In many cases, embedded videos can even be sized to take up the full real estate of your 65-inch LED, LCD, or OLED panel.
Silk will even preload webpages the browser believes you might search for next, another means of optimizing performance without putting a ton of strain on the hardware the browser is running on.
