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How’s going with your Fire Tablet? How do you like it? We’ll help you navigate using the Silk browser on your Amazon Fire tablet. If you would like to follow along, you may do so here. And please let us know if you have any additional questions–we’re always here to help!
Using the Silk browser In and Out
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- Because of this, the browser stutters, dies, chokes, skips, and is generally a pain to deal with. Oh yeah, and there’s that “Silk” optimization that hasn’t lived up to the hype. That’s all a thing of the past. How to Make the Kindle Browser Actually Fast. Here’s what we’re going to do, and as usual, it’s a matter of disabling Flash.
- Silk was made by Yuri Vishnevsky, with music and sound crafted by Mat Jarvis. Art shared with Silk is licensed under Creative Commons. If you enjoyed Silk, please let me know! Note — Silk has sound. Press Space to start anew. Press Z to undo.
- Alternatively, you can keep enable it, but unblock Silk Browser by tapping the “Blocked” option next to Web Browser to open the access. Clear App Data By clearing application data, your personal information such as bookmarks will be erased so you may need to back it up first.
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Once your tablet is connected to WiFi, you can open the Silk browser by tapping the Silk icon on your home screen. The browser will open to the “most visited” page. From this page, you can access your most frequented websites immediately, or use the Search bar to open a new page.
When you type the address of the web page (url)you are looking for, Silk will make suggestions based on your default profile. You may either tap a website to open it, or tap “go” when you have finished typing the address.
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To access your most visited sites again, you can either swipe from the left side of the screen or tap the “navigation” icon. You will also be able to access your bookmarks, downloads and navigation history from the sidebar.
Silk Web Browser Kindle Fire
History
Your sidebar will show all of your recent searches from your device. You may delete them individually or tap “clear all” to erase your browsing history.
Trending Now
The “Trending now” page will show you a list of websites currently trending with other Amazon users.
Settings
Your “settings” menu will allow you to change your search engine, adjust your data and privacy options, and reset all settings to the default function.
Other basic features.
Other features of the Silk browser include the “+” icon in the top right-hand corner, which is used to open a new tab. You may open up to 10 tabs at a time. To close a tab, either press the “x” on the tab or press and hold the tab until it closes. The “search” icon is used to search the web using your preferred search engine.
The “forward” and “back” buttons will take you to the next or previous page, and the menu icon, which allows you to print a page, share a page via Goodreads, Facebook, Twitter or email (apps must be installed on your device for this feature to work), change your viewing options, add a bookmark or open your screen to full screen, hiding the options bar. To exit full screen, simply swipe down from the top of the device.
Saving images from a website.
If the website you are visiting enables saving, you can press and hold an image from the site and then tap “Save” to save the picture on your device. Any items downloaded from Silk will appear in “downloads”.
If you need more help information, please visit the Amazon help page at www.amazon.com/devicesupport. And as always, let us know in the comments below if you have a question that we didn’t cover!
The ugly duckling of Android web browsers got an update today which is going to make it slightly more useful. Amazon announced on the Silk developer’s blog that:
Silk Web Browser Apk
In response to customer feedback, we are excited to announce support for Private Browsing. With Private Browsing, you can surf the web without saving a record of your visits. For example, if you use Private Browsing while researching travel destinations for a surprise trip or shopping for presents, these sites will not show up in your browsing history when someone else uses your device.
Silk Web Browser Ios
The new privacy mode is available on all Fire tablets except the original, and it’s also available on the Fire Phone.
The new private browsing mode can be found by tapping the 3 dot icon on the navigation bar (the same bar where you’ll find the search, home, and back icons), and then selecting Enter Private Browsing:
You can exit the private browsing mode by closing the tabs you opened during your browsing session. Silk will prompt you to delete the files you downloaded during the session, which you should probably do.
And now finally we can use the Fire tablets for their intended purpose (porn) without anyone other than your ISP and Amazon being the wiser. (Silk offers the option of performance boosted by Amazon’s servers, and unless you turn that off you’re basically sharing everything with Amazon.)
Just so you know, this is called a private browsing mode for a reason. It’s not a secret browsing mode, by any means, and the sites you visit can still be tracked by your ISP, the websites you visit (cookies), and any sufficiently crafty individual who is using the same public wifi network.
Truly private browsing would require either a VPN or a TOR node, and even that may not be enough. Earlier today a researcher at Columbia University showed that it was possible to track TOR users through traffic analysis.
On the other hand, that requires a lot more work than the average hacker can bring to bear, so perhaps we shouldn’t get too alarmed over it.