Not only will Silk receive faster page load speeds, better HTML5 support, and an improved start-up page, but the browser will also gain a new, potentially revolutionary feature.

Discover the Amazon Silk browser, designed for super-fast page loading on the Kindle Fire tablet while raising mobile browsing privacy concerns.

Home > Computing Amazon Silk revisited: Is the "split" cloud browser any faster? After a month of use, it's time to check in on the Kindle Fire's Silk browser. Has it sped up as Amazon claimed?

Amazon has packaged a set of technologies in its new Silk browser to speed up the web experience on the Kindle Fire. But they come at a cost in reduced privacy. Are they worth the price?

Silk is essentially a "split browser" architecture, which means that the load of browsing the web will be split between the tablet itself and Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) service.

But according to the review from Anandtech and a few others I’ve seen, the Silk browser is actually slower than most other mobile browsers.

Opera’s mobile browser does the same thing to reduce bandwidth usage, sending just the final rendered Web page to the browser.

While the Kindle Fire tablet consumed much of the focus at Amazon's launch event Wednesday in New York, the company also showed off its new browser for the tablet, which it calls Silk.

Amazon has developed a new mobile Web browser called Silk that offloads some of the work of loading Web pages to the company's cloud computing infrastructure. It can even compile JavaScript into ...

In all the hype about Amazon's new Fire tablet, dubbed by many a real iPad competitor, the details of the new Silk browser have been overlooked. Some believe it revolutionary, some believe it ...

To launch Amazon Silk, go to Apps on your Fire TV Stick home screen, and hit the Internet app. You can use your remote's directional pad as your cursor and the center button to select icons or ...