If you’re like most Kindle Fire owners, you probably use the Silk browser to surf the web. But did you know that the Silk browser can be a bit slow? If you’re looking to make your Kindle Fire Silk browser faster, here are some tips:

  1. Clear your cache and cookies: The first thing you can do to speed up your Kindle Fire Silk browser is clear your cache and cookies. This will free up space on your device and make it faster to load pages.
  2. Use a VPN: Another way to make your Kindle Fire Silk browser faster is to use a VPN. A VPN encrypts all of your traffic so that it’s protected from prying eyes. This will help speed up the loading of pages and reduce the number of data requests made by the Silk browser.
  3. Optimize your device: Finally, if all else fails, you can try optimizing your device for better performance in the Silk browser. This includes making sure that your device is running latest software updates, installing apps that are optimized for Android devices, and clearing out any unnecessary files from your device. ..

Not that long ago, we reviewed the Kindle Fire, and one of our biggest complaints was how lousy the browser is—but we’ve discovered the trick to making it actually fast. Here’s how to fix it.

What’s the problem?

The browser, in the default settings, is essentially attempting to be a desktop browser on a little 7” screen that doesn’t exactly use your screen space very well. As part of this silliness, the browser is set to “Desktop” mode, and Flash is enabled by default. Because of this, the browser stutters, dies, chokes, skips, and is generally a pain to deal with. Oh yeah, and there’s that “Silk” optimization that hasn’t lived up to the hype.

That’s all a thing of the past.

How to Make the Kindle Browser Actually Fast

Here’s what we’re going to do, and as usual, it’s a matter of disabling Flash. While we’re at it, we’re going to disable the page “accelerate” feature, and change the browser to mobile mode. There’s no reason to access sites in the desktop interface when it’s a little 7” screen—you just end up trying to zoom on every single page load, so what’s the point? Finally, the optimization is hardly necessary when you’re on a fast home Wi-Fi connection, so we’re going to turn that off too. I’m sure it’s useful for some people on some networks, but in our testing it was slow.

To do this, just open up the browser, hit the menu button at the bottom of the screen, hit the Settings button, and then find the following options:

Enable plug-ins: off Accelerate page loading: Unchecked Desktop or mobile view: Mobile

You don’t have to change the browser into Mobile view, though we do recommend it. Just disabling Flash and the “accelerate page loading” made a big difference while browsing. You can also change the plug-ins to allow them on demand, but that usually ends up with a lot of annoying prompts, so it’s not usually worth it—it’s worth noting that YouTube still works just fine without the Flash plugin enabled.

Once you make these changes, your browser will suddenly be very fast. You’ll start seeing the mobile versions of most sites, which is not a bad thing, since everything will be speedy.