Evidence is mounting that Amazon has larger ambitions for the web browser launching on its new Fire tablet

Christopher Mims

The powered-by-the-cloud Silk browser Amazon surprised users with yesterday, which will initially only be available on its Fire 7-inch tablet, will probably be coming to other platforms, though the evidence is still circumstantial.

The Silk browser is notable because it offloads much of the processing of web pages to Amazon's vast cloud infrastructure, to speed up the browsing experience. (The Opera browser has been doing this for years, but unfortunately for Opera, no one seems have noticed.)

Spotted here