Since YouTube is leaving many Amazon devices in January, I wonder if people
will be able to surf to YouTube on their fire devices? That would be
interesting.
Now that Apple TV finally has Prime videos I’m waiting for a good browser to
come my way.
Merv
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Amazon Brings Web Browsing to Fire TV
Mozilla Firefox and Amazon Silk browsers launch on all Amazon Fire TV devices
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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 2017-- (NASDAQ:AMZN) – Starting today, all
Amazon Fire TV customers will be able to browse the web on their TV. With Fire
TV, customers already have access to more than 500,000 movies and TV episodes,
and tens of thousands of apps, channels and Alexa skills. Now with the Firefox
and Silk browsers, customers can access the World Wide Web including popular
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“With full web browsers on Fire TV, our customers’ entertainment and
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“Bringing Firefox to Fire TV is an exciting new way to reach our users and
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the already great Fire TV experience by enabling viewers to surface a multitude
of web content -- including videos -- through Firefox.”
Amazon Silk has been optimized for Fire TV by designing for a true television
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Fire TV devices are the number one selling streaming media players in the US,
UK, Germany, and Japan and have tens of millions of monthly active users.
Firefox and Silk are available starting today on every Fire TV device available
in more than 100 countries and territories. Customers can easily download the
browsers from their Fire TV to immediately begin browsing the web.
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