Amazon Silk

The Amazon Silk Browser in version 1.0 under Fire OS in full screen mode, accessed on the Kindle Fire tablet computer , with the view of a Wikipedia Commons page.

Amazon Silk is a browser that Amazon uses in Fire OS for Fire tablets .

architecture

The browser was introduced on September 28, 2011 by the Amazon Silk team. The outstanding feature is the so-called "split browsing". Before each website is called up on the tablet, a decision is made about the division of labor: It is therefore asked whether, for example, the networking , HTML analysis or page rendering should be done either locally on the tablet computer or remotely on the Amazon server .

Silk, under Fire OS running, uses the protocol SPDY on TCP basis. The browser with the HTML renderer Blink Intus is a smaller relative of the Google Chrome browser . Silks Software is based on Chromium .

Surname

According to Amazon, this browser of thin but incredibly strong silk threads (silk, Eng. For the fine silk nfaser) which connects the tablet computer in the hand of the user with the remote Amazon server.

Usage instructions

• Amazon Silk. Cloud accelerated "split browser"
• The 5 min video tutorial in Surfing the Internet with Silk provides a quick start
• Basics of controlling with Silk

swell

• The article Amazon Silk in English.
• Publications of the company Amazon documented in this article.

Individual evidence

in English

1. ↑ Amazon Silk ( Memento from July 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) was presented.
2. ↑ Amazon Silk - Amazon's Revolutionary Cloud-Accelerated Web Browser YouTube -Video (6 minutes)