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Silk Browser

• Developer: Amazon
• Development Status: Active
• Released: 2011
• Platforms: Fire OS
• Type: Browser
• Rendering Engine: WebKit (early releases), Blink (current releases)

Overview

Amazon Silk is a web browser developed for Amazon Fire devices.

Related Browsers

These browsers are developed for Amazon devices:

Browser	Description
Kindle Browser	The browser included with Kindle e-readers.
Silk Browser	The browser developed for Amazon Fire devices.

User-Agent Examples

macOS

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_3; en-us; Silk/1.1.0-84)

Code Example

import { UAParser } from 'ua-parser-js';
import { BrowserName } from 'ua-parser-js/enums';

const parser = new UAParser();
const ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_3; en-us; Silk/1.1.0-84)';

const browser = parser.setUA(ua).getBrowser();

console.log(browser);
// {name: "Silk", version: "1.1.0-84", major: "1"}

console.log(browser.is(BrowserName.SILK));
// true