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the Amazon fire silk browser has a lot more power than any other normal stock Android browser so here are a few ways to take advantage of silks best features first start by customizing the omni bar by default the browser uses Bing for searches but if you prefer a different search engine like Google or Yahoo you can change that just head to the Left sidebar then settings and then search engine to make a choice one of the more useful built-in features here is saved pages if you don't have time to read an article you can save it by hitting the Menu button and choosing save page not only will this bookmark it for later but it'll even be available offline which is great for those internet free commutes when you're ready to read a saved article just had to saved pages in the sidebar and there it is like most mobile browsers so let's say you use tabs so you can launch and browse a bunch of pages at once except in silk they're really more like Windows to view all your windows tap this icon here in this overview you can of course navigate to a different window plus you can manage whatever you have open to quickly close all windows long press any page and tap close all tabs and you have a few other options like close other tabs and finally there are a lot of settings to play with but pay attention to a couple options that can minimize your data usage like instant page load it uses a little extra data to preload web pages based on where Silk thinks you're going next so if you want to cut down on data disable that option and if you're really concerned about data go to the Advanced Settings and turn load images off you'll use fewer megabytes plus your pages will load a lot faster so those are just a few tips to help you get started with silk but if you have any questions or tips of your own hit me up on Twitter and check out cnet.com / - for more tips like this for CNET I'm Sharon Profis