

Kindle Fire viewing the mobile GetJar app store.Amazon’s Kindle Fire app store is a far cry from the Google Play app store when it comes to selection.

Select the Desktop: Optimize for desktop view option. To configure the browser to serve up the full desktop versions of websites, open the Kindle Fire Browser app, go to the bottom of the screen and enter the browser settings, and choose Desktop or mobile view. For me, the Kindle Fire has more than enough screen real estate to support full websites. Other badly stripped-down sites include CNN, ESPN, and Gmail. The mobile version of Facebook is fine when you’re on your iPhone or Android handset, but the stripped-down version seems inadequate on the Kindle Fire. View Full Websites, Not the Cruddy Mobile Versions Here are five tips to rev up your Kindle Fire and put a bit of that tablet swagger back into your investment. And you can add several gigabytes’ worth of music to your device without hogging valuable storage.
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You can also view full desktop versions of websites, instead of the default–and minimalist–mobile versions that the Kindle Fire normally delivers. Now you can tweak the user interface, no rooting required. Since PCWorld’s first roundup of recommended Kindle Fire apps, a cavalcade of new apps, tips, and hacks that breathe new life into the tablet have surfaced. Five months after Amazon debuted its $200 “game-changing” tablet, the Kindle Fire is feeling more like a McDonald’s hamburger next to Apple’s prime-rib, third-generation iPad.īut it doesn’t have to be that way.
