Jumat, 07 September 2012

The New Kindle Fires Are Getting a New Silk Hybrid Cloud Browser as Well


The Silk browser, which made quite a fuss when it was first revealed but not much so after, is getting an update to go along with the new Kindle Fires. If you remember, Silk's big feature was its reliance on the cloud.

It used Amazon's impressive cloud technology to render pages faster by having parts of them processed and cached in the cloud.

Amazon boasts that the new Silk browser is 30 percent faster than the one it's replacing – specifically, pages load 30 percent faster.

Although it doesn't say whether this is with the new hardware or not, the old Kindle Fire is getting a 40 percent faster processor.

The Kindle Fire HD is getting a dual-core TI OMAP 4470 processor, running at a minimum of 1.5 GHz, which Amazon says is faster than the Nvidia Tegra 3.

The new Silk browser is coming to all Kindle Fire devices, the updated original one, as well as the Fire HD.

The new Silk comes with better HTML5 support, understandable since it's been a year since the first one launched. Specifically, it now supports geolocation, IndexedDB, web workers and several other features.

The new Silk is also getting a UI revamp. It's going to be easier to distinguish between most visited sites, bookmarks and history, something users had a problem with the first time around.

"With today’s launch, we’ve introduced a new, more intuitive start page with better navigation elements," Amazon explained.

"Your most visited pages are now clearly distinguished from other navigation options, making the sites you go to most the easiest to get to. We’ve also added simple top navigation to both Bookmarks and History," it said.

"Besides addressing the obvious problem of intermingling bookmarks with most visited, this new design also addresses a customer experience problem we had not anticipated: how to find and manage browser history," it added.

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