Silk on Fire Tablet Silk on Fire TV Silk on Echo Show

What is Amazon Silk?

Amazon Silk is a web browser available for customers to use on Fire Tablets, Fire TVs, and Echo Show devices. Silk is built on the Chromium Project, and is consistently updated to create a faster, secure and more responsive web browsing experience.

Amazon Silk works like any other web browser and allows you to easily add bookmarks, search the web, watch videos, browse your favorite websites and much more. Silk is the preferred web browser for Amazon devices such as the Fire Tablet, Fire TV and Echo Show.

If you're an Amazon Silk user, and you want a more general introduction to Silk, see the Silk User Guide in the browser. Use the guide to learn about customizing the Silk view, using bookmarks, using browser tabs, clearing history, downloading content, and other topics. Off-device user documentation is also available on the Fire, Kindle & Echo Support site.

Silk on Fire Tablet

You can use Amazon Silk to browse the web on your Fire Tablet or app-based Kindle devices. For example, use Silk to

Search the web for new reading material.
Keep up with the latest trends and news.
Shop on the web easily using your device.

Amazon Silk is pre-installed on your Fire Tablet. Open the App and start browsing. To learn more about Silk on Fire tablet, visit Fire Tablet Help.

Silk on Fire TV

Amazon Silk is the web browser for the big screen. Silk brings limitless content from the internet to your TV, for an immersive experience that’s easy to navigate. Go to your favorite websites to watch videos, view live events, browse pictures and shop. Easily control videos and music with Alexa or your Fire TV remote.

With Amazon Silk on your Fire TV, you can

Access limitless web content from your TV.
Easily access your favourite websites through your bookmarks and trending videos.
Browse websites in private browsing mode.