© Provided by Mashable Amazon Fire TV, Echo Show won't have Firefox app by end of April
Mozilla's Firefox web browser will no longer be an option for users on Amazon's Fire TV or Echo Show devices.
Firefox for Fire TV is an app available in the Amazon AppStore in the United States. Once installed, you can launch popular video websites, like YouTube, load any website address, and search the web for videos to play full screen on the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. Send websites from your phone, tablet or computer to your Fire TV! All you’ll need are Firefox on both devices and a free Firefox Account. Sign in to Firefox Accounts on Fire TV A free Firefox Account lets you send tabs from another device to your Fire TV. Firefox for Fire TV is made by Mozilla, the non-profit champions of a healthy internet. Unlock the potential of online video on your TV with Firefox. With Firefox for Fire TV, you have access to the best content the web has to offer, intelligently organized by topic on your homescreen. Mozilla Firefox ends support for Amazon Fire TV, Echo Show. Mozilla Firefox browser has announced to end support for Amazon Fire TV and Echo Show devices from April 30. IANS; April 12, 2021, 08:37 IST.
Starting April 30, all Firefox support will stop on the Amazon devices (h/t Engadget). That means no updates and no new users or downloads. If you're one of the affected users you can keep watching on Firefox unsupported, but if you delete the app you won't be able to get it back.
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For those who have Firefox set as the default browser on their Echo Show devices (that's an Alexa-powered AI assistant speaker with a screen) you'll be automatically redirected to Amazon Silk, Amazon's own web browser. In the U.S., Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari dominate browser options across all types of devices. On Fire TV, the only browser options have always been either Firefox or Silk.
The Firefox app has long been used as a workaround to access YouTube on devices where it's not supported, as Engadget explained, especially after Fire TV removed the YouTube app in 2017. The Google-owned video streamer is back on Fire TV now, but not on the Echo Show. That's where the Silk browser comes in. But Amazon did add the video conferencing app Zoom to the Show on Monday, so there's that.
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Still, by the end of April if you want to surf the web on your Amazon devices, Mozilla suggests asking Alexa to 'open Silk.'