The Kindle Fire’s Browser: Mostly Smooth as Silk
September 30, 2011 No CommentsOne of the more intriguing features of the Kindle Fire, Amazon’s new tablet, is Silk, the Web browser that makes its debut on the device. Silk, like the Opera browser, uses a split architecture to put some of the work on Amazon’s own back-end servers. That’s raised some questions about user privacy, though Amazon insists browsing activity is aggregated and not linked to a user identity.