I think the browser is okay--just okay. It is NOT stellar, and it is NOT rubbish. I think I would characterize it as average and adequate. I do NOT find it to have the greased lightning speed that was advertised, but it is comparable in speed to my iPad Safari browser.

However, I did encounter a several minutes session last night where the Silk browser refused to load any web pages or update the ones loaded. That included the MR pages! I thought my WiFi connection might be bad but then I noticed that the Fire had no issue with the apps that connect to the internet. I picked up my iPad and was able to connect via Safari. Finally the Fire got over it and started connecting again. Later on I encountered the same issue again. I am wondering if this was due to the server farm Amazon uses to supply the Silk browser with web pages? Perhaps their servers went gaga for a few minutes. I think I'll try Opera.