Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Amazon refreshes Kindle Fire Silk browser interface, marking first major update in a year


Remember Silk, the "split browser" Amazon included with the original Kindle Fire that promised speedy performance by handing off some of the browsing load onto the company's powerful servers? The company made a lot of noise about the browser when it first launched two years ago, but today it's receiving the first major update in nearly a year. A melange of user interface changes make up the update, with redesigned navigation and a simplified new tab page headlining the additions. The latter only shows your most visited sites now, with pages that are trending across the Kindle Fire community being relegated to a new menu pane that pops out from the left side of the screen. The controls atop the browser are cleaned up a bit too, with a...


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/14/4622032/amazon-silk-browser-first-major-update-in-a-year

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