Amazon Silk
| Amazon Silk | |
|---|---|
Amazon Silk's secondary app icon | |
Amazon Silk browser running on an Amazon Fire | |
| Developer | Amazon.com |
| Initial release | November 15, 2011 |
| Engine | Blink, V8 |
| Operating system | Fire OS |
| Available in | English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Chinese |
| Type | Mobile browser |
| License | Freeware, proprietary |
| Website | docs |
Amazon Silk is a web browser developed by Amazon. It was launched in November 2011 for Amazon Fire and Fire Phone, and a Fire TV version was launched in November 2017. Amazon Silk was announced for the Echo Show in September 2018, and subsequently added the same month.
The browser utilizes a split architecture where some of the processing is performed on Amazon's servers to improve a website's loading performance. Based on Google's open-source Chromium project, Silk uses the Blink and V8 engines for displaying webpages and executing JavaScript.