Michael Bizzaco is a seasoned consumer tech writer with over five years of experience contributing to major publications like Digital Trends, How-To Geek, Android Police, and SPY. Specializing in product reviews, buying guides, and streaming device breakdowns, he's built a career simplifying complex specs and demystifying pesky acronyms.
can be a massive pain. While these internet-navigating apps have definitely improved over the last few years, using a TV remote to key in URLs and scroll through webpages is a job better fit for a phone, tablet, or laptop. Still, browser apps are available for all types of web-connected tech, including Amazon's Fire TV Stick lineup. As a matter of fact, Amazon's Silk Browser is built right into, as well as Amazon's Fire tablets, Echo Show smart displays, and several other devices.
The best part of Amazon's Silk Browser is that it's tailor-made to work reliably and efficiently on your Fire TV Stick. And while it's not the kind of browsing experience you'll get on your MacBook or Windows PC, Silk should be more than sufficient for most Amazon device users. Whether you've never heard of Silk before or you've already been using the browser, there are a few things you should know about this user-friendly Amazon software.
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.The name of the game with Amazon's Silk Browser is"lightweight performance." Unlike a computer, streaming devices and smart TVs don't have the kind of processors and technical horsepower to deliver the robust browsing experience of apps like Safari, Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox.
Not only does this take the strain off the processor, but it also helps to preserve your Fire TV device's storage space. This approach to share the load allows Silk to prioritize things like faster search results, load times, and quicker Alexa functionality. However, there's a caveat that warrants your attention: These AWS servers areRecommended
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