Firefox Browser, also known as Mozilla Firefox or simply Firefox, a free and open-source web browser has announced that they are dropping support for Amazon’s Fire TV and Echo Show devices. This big news comes just over three and a half years after the browser started supporting the Amazon devices. After dropping support for Firefox on these platforms, users will stop receiving updates by the end of April.
As reported in the blog post, Mozilla Firefox shared the information and revealed that users all across the world will be switched to Amazon’s Silk browser once Firefox drops support. Also, Firefox’s listing would be pulled down from the app store at the end of the month.
Mozilla made the announcement in a support document last week: “Starting on 30 April 2021, we will no longer support Firefox on Amazon Fire TV or Echo Show. You will no longer be able to install the app on FireTV, receive security updates, or be able to reinstall the app if you uninstall it starting on April 30, 2021. If you have Firefox set as your default browser on Echo Show, you will be redirected to Amazon Silk for web browsing starting 30 April 2021.”
Mozilla first introduced Firefox to Fire TV devices in December 2017, allowing users to watch YouTube on those devices, as per the Verge. The web browser was introduced on Echo Show devices alongside Amazon’s Silk browser with the Echo Show 10 in September 2018.
Users who currently have the Firefox browser installed will still be able to access it but will not be able to download it again in near future. Meanwhile, if they uninstall the browser, then the new users will not be able to find the browser on the Amazon app store.
Users, who have the app installed will not be able to use it after 30 April, because the application will be vulnerable to any future security flaws and it will not receive any security fixes.
