© Provided by Mashable Amazon Fire TV, Echo Show won't have Firefox app by end of April
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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. Toshiba - 55' Class LED 4K UHD Smart Fire TV Edition TV. Model: 55LF621U21. User rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars with 725 reviews. (725) Price Match. Amazon Fire TV to drop Mozilla Firefox support. In an email sent to Amazon customers this week, as seen by BleepingComputer, the company states that effective April 30th, 2021, the Mozilla Firefox app on Fire TV will no longer be supported. Although the Firefox app will not be removed from customers’ Fire TV sticks or apps, it will cease to.
Mozilla's Firefox web browser will no longer be an option for users on Amazon's Fire TV or Echo Show devices.
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.'