E-commerce Giant Amazon today announced the launch of “Mozilla Firefox” and its in-house browser “Silk” globally for all Fire TV devices. While Amazon in its press release promoted mainly Silk browser and how it has been optimized for use on the Fire TV and with the Fire TV remote, the company doesn’t quite give Mozilla’s browser the same kind of attention in today’s announcement. As far as I can tell from my time with Mozilla, it has done quite a bit of work to integrate its browser with the Fire TV remote and app.
Amazon’s move will open a whole new horizon for the Fire TV users in over 100 countries. Fire TV user’s across the globe has welcomed this move as “Youtube” might disappear from Fire TV devices at the beginning of January 2018 thanks to the ongoing “Google Amazon Battle”. Though The Verge spotted Silk browsing capabilities last month. Amazon said it optimized Silk, the browser built for Kindle devices, to function well on big-screen TVs.
Mozilla on its site has already mentioned that users on Fire TV & Fire TV Stick will be able to watch videos on YouTube. You can read more details here.
You can head over to the app store on your Fire Stick TV to download “Silk” and “Mozilla Firefox” browsers.
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