6. Accessing the Web on Your Amazon Fire
We’ve already mentioned that the Amazon Fire is part-eBook reader, part-media player, and
part-tablet, and nowhere is this more obvious than in the device’s internet connectivity.
While previous Kindle models omitted browsing (at least by default) the Amazon Fire positively
embraces it, providing a native browser so users can enjoy the basic portable computing
experience that has become synonymous with tablets.
6.1 The Silk Browser
The native means of accessing the World Wide Web on your Amazon Fire is designed to be as
fast as possible, something achieved by using the Amazon cloud servers to process some of the
requested web page information .
Accessible via the
Silk Browser
link in the Home screen the browser (which, like Google
Chrome, is based on the
open source
Chromium project) presents you with a new tab at launch,
an address bar and some regularly-visited shortcuts including Facebook and Google.
The address bar at the top can be used to enter a full URL or simply a search term; you’ll also
see a Refresh button in the right-most side of the address/ search bar. Look for
the
Home
button to get to the home page quickly, while the bookmark button will open a full
sub-menu. Above this, the + symbol allows you to open new tabs.
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