Kindle Fire – Browser Accelerator Slows Down Browsing

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When we reviewed the Amazon Kindle Fire we admired the clever Silk browser, which uses Amazon Cloud Cluster to accelerate downloads by offloading some of the rendering burden from your phone to their remote servers. Yet two weeks after launch, test results indicate Amazon Silk browser runs up to 50% faster with the accelerator feature disabled. businessweek.com needed 16.5 seconds to load, or 10 without the ‘help’ of Amazon Cloud servers, and engadget needed 20 seconds in ‘fast’ mode as opposed to 15 with the accelerator off.

Silk Accelerator mode is enabled by default, so most users are having to endure slower web browsing than is necessary on Amazon’s best-selling device. Luckily, it’s easy to switch acceleration off, at least until Amazon optimizes its servers… Latest test results suggest Silk runs 25% faster without cloud acceleration…so what are you waiting for?

Laptopmag

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