In the end, this really just seems like a workaround to get users to access YouTube long after Google has pulled the plug on January 1, 2018. I couldn't test the Amazon Silk browser as it's not available in all regions. In fact you will often be seeing mobile versions of sites here, since this is essentially Firefox for Android in landscape. This opened the mobile version of YouTube and the experience here was really bad. Out of curiosity, I decided to open YouTube in Firefox the old fashioned way by typing in the URL. I had to wait for some time for the app to be cleared from memory, after which I could access Firefox again. The implementation is really weird because once you launch this you can't go back to the Firefox browser and even going back to the homescreen and clicking the Firefox icon only launches the YouTube app again. Hilariously enough, this does not even launch the website but instead opens a YouTube app identical to the one that is about to be discontinued right within Firefox itself. Of course, the very first icon you see when you install and launch the Firefox browser on Fire TV is YouTube. The move comes shortly after Google decided to drop YouTube playback functionality through the YouTube app on the Fire TV. While the Silk browser was made available for download at the end of last month, the addition of Firefox is new. Amazon has announced that all users of Fire TV devices will now be able to browser the web through Firefox and Amazon Silk browsers.
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