Increasing Kindle Fire Browser Speed

Daithi · 01-03-2012, 09:59 AM

An article at Mobile Mag covers how to increase the browser speed on the Kindle Fire. In a nutshell, their advice is to turn off the "Silk Acceleration" and disable plug-ins, but I've included a link to the article.

jswinden · 01-03-2012, 10:44 AM

Funny avatar! Come to think of it I haven't seen the wolf sniffing around our backsides here in this KF thread in a while. I guess he finally got bored... I did read an article that said his beloved Sony rated at the bottom of the list as far as very poor customer service goes, and another article that said that Sony posted yet another yearly loss. Perhaps he rent his clothes, put on sack cloth, and smeared himself with ashes to lament his beloved's woes!

One of the first things many of us discovered very early on was that the Silk accelerator was actually more of a brake. If you look at the Tips thread you will see how we said to turn it off and speed up Silk substantially. There are other settings which make Silk better as well, also listed in the Tips thread.

RainingLemur · 01-03-2012, 10:47 AM

Ha. That's one of the first things I wound up doing anyways.

I did some comparative browsing, and there was a noticeable difference in load speed. Nothing that I'd go Hulk and smash over, but I'd prefer the faster speed.

jswinden · 01-03-2012, 11:03 AM

The first week or two after the Fire was released the Amazon Silk servers were constantly having problems. I guess they were overwhelmed. At any rate, it was common for Silk to stall out on many websites and not be able to load them at all. Turning off acceleration by-passed the Amazon Silk servers and substantially improved performance. Hopefully Amazon corrected the server issues by now (I haven't checked), but I suspect they still act more as a brake than an accelerator.

hn333 · 01-03-2012, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by jswinden

The first week or two after the Fire was released the Amazon Silk servers were constantly having problems. I guess they were overwhelmed. At any rate, it was common for Silk to stall out on many websites and not be able to load them at all. Turning off acceleration by-passed the Amazon Silk servers and substantially improved performance. Hopefully Amazon corrected the server issues by now (I haven't checked), but I suspect they still act more as a brake than an accelerator.

I havn't turned it off since I got it. Runs fast enough for me.

ssahnan · 01-04-2012, 12:42 AM

Still not a fan of browsing on the fire(I still haven't tried alternate browsers) but I too also out of curiosity turned off the setting and while it's not across the board on every website better, by in large it does give more then a noticeable level of performance increase by turning it off

tomsem · 01-04-2012, 11:38 PM

A few weeks ago I saw a couple of dozen new Amazon job listings to work on Silk browser. Maybe someday it will live up to the hype or at least work more consistently.

grvthang · 01-05-2012, 12:01 AM

Funny that turning off "acceleration" would speed it up. This "acceleration" is what Amazon describes as predicting what your next move would be, and processing it 'in the cloud' beforehand; many others describe as "Amazon's way of monitoring your every website visit".
I'll stick with Opera Mobile, thanks.

deannah · 01-05-2012, 04:17 PM

"Funny that turning off "acceleration" would speed it up."

I agree. Think I read that acceleration caused it to run through Amazon servers. Anyone else read this?

I use the Dolphin browser.

samefly · 01-12-2012, 09:36 AM

Do any of the other browsers perform better?

salsaguy · 01-13-2012, 11:40 PM

Try Dolphin or Opera mini

Merischino · 01-14-2012, 02:15 AM

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Originally Posted by samefly

Do any of the other browsers perform better?

I tried opera mini, opera full, dolphin mini and dolphin HD. All were noticeably faster than silk. I ended up sticking with Dolphin HD, which I like the best and was as fast as or faster than the others.

Alohamora · 02-11-2012, 12:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daithi

An article at Mobile Mag covers how to increase the browser speed on the Kindle Fire. In a nutshell, their advice is to turn off the "Silk Acceleration" and disable plug-ins, but I've included a link to the article.

Thank you! I was just about to conclude that the wifi on my new fire was broken, because web browsing was so slow, sometimes even timing out before fulling loading a page.

Turning OFF the browser acceleration made all the difference in the world! "Acceleration" indeed!

hn333 · 02-11-2012, 02:13 PM

Turning off acceleration does not speed it up. Turning off Java Script does. People and their internet myths.

Alohamora · 02-11-2012, 02:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hn333

Turning off acceleration does not speed it up. Turning off Java Script does. People and their internet myths.

I left Java script on.

Turning off acceleration (only change) made a night vs. day difference for me.

Clearly there is something broken in Silk Acceleration or the way it interfaces with my ISP or my kindle at this time.

My experience may not be your experience, but it's no myth.

01-03-2012, 09:59 AM	#1
Daithi Publishers are evil! Posts: 2,418 Karma: 36205264 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Rhode Island Device: Various Kindles	Increasing Kindle Fire Browser Speed An article at Mobile Mag covers how to increase the browser speed on the Kindle Fire. In a nutshell, their advice is to turn off the "Silk Acceleration" and disable plug-ins, but I've included a link to the article.

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01-03-2012, 10:44 AM	#2
jswinden Nameless Being	Funny avatar! Come to think of it I haven't seen the wolf sniffing around our backsides here in this KF thread in a while. I guess he finally got bored... I did read an article that said his beloved Sony rated at the bottom of the list as far as very poor customer service goes, and another article that said that Sony posted yet another yearly loss. Perhaps he rent his clothes, put on sack cloth, and smeared himself with ashes to lament his beloved's woes! One of the first things many of us discovered very early on was that the Silk accelerator was actually more of a brake. If you look at the Tips thread you will see how we said to turn it off and speed up Silk substantially. There are other settings which make Silk better as well, also listed in the Tips thread.

01-03-2012, 10:47 AM	#3
RainingLemur Spork Connoisseur Posts: 2,355 Karma: 16780603 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Nook Color	Ha. That's one of the first things I wound up doing anyways. I did some comparative browsing, and there was a noticeable difference in load speed. Nothing that I'd go Hulk and smash over, but I'd prefer the faster speed.

01-03-2012, 11:03 AM	#4
jswinden Nameless Being	The first week or two after the Fire was released the Amazon Silk servers were constantly having problems. I guess they were overwhelmed. At any rate, it was common for Silk to stall out on many websites and not be able to load them at all. Turning off acceleration by-passed the Amazon Silk servers and substantially improved performance. Hopefully Amazon corrected the server issues by now (I haven't checked), but I suspect they still act more as a brake than an accelerator.

01-04-2012, 12:42 AM	#6
ssahnan Enthusiast Posts: 47 Karma: 50 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: kindle3g, kindle touch, kindle fire, kindle ipad 1 and 2, kindle iphon	Still not a fan of browsing on the fire(I still haven't tried alternate browsers) but I too also out of curiosity turned off the setting and while it's not across the board on every website better, by in large it does give more then a noticeable level of performance increase by turning it off

01-04-2012, 11:38 PM	#7
tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,478 Karma: 26425959 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	A few weeks ago I saw a couple of dozen new Amazon job listings to work on Silk browser. Maybe someday it will live up to the hype or at least work more consistently.

01-05-2012, 12:01 AM	#8
grvthang Connoisseur Posts: 92 Karma: 53472 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Brooklyn NY Device: Kindle Fire, Droid Incredible2, Kindle Touch	Funny that turning off "acceleration" would speed it up. This "acceleration" is what Amazon describes as predicting what your next move would be, and processing it 'in the cloud' beforehand; many others describe as "Amazon's way of monitoring your every website visit". I'll stick with Opera Mobile, thanks.

01-05-2012, 04:17 PM	#9
deannah Connoisseur Posts: 77 Karma: 14 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Idaho USA Device: KK, KT, KFire, KFire HD, KPaperwhite	"Funny that turning off "acceleration" would speed it up." I agree. Think I read that acceleration caused it to run through Amazon servers. Anyone else read this? I use the Dolphin browser.

01-12-2012, 09:36 AM	#10
samefly ...different @#$% Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Texas Device: kindle fire	Do any of the other browsers perform better?

01-13-2012, 11:40 PM	#11
salsaguy Addict Posts: 381 Karma: 30500 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: Kindle Fire (1st Gen), Kindle Touch, KFHD 8.9 No Ads	Try Dolphin or Opera mini

02-11-2012, 02:13 PM	#14
hn333 Addict Posts: 255 Karma: 316188 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: Kindle, Kindle Fire	Turning off acceleration does not speed it up. Turning off Java Script does. People and their internet myths.

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