Amazon Echo Show 5: Web Browser Apps
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2019
- Amazon Echo Show 5: Web Browser Apps
Do you know you can surf the internet on the Amazon Echo Show 5. Although it's not in reach like other things on the Echo Show 5, you have access to two browser apps. Your choice of current browsers is Silk or Firefox, guess which one has more to offer?
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Why can't other creators post a video like this that is just clear and concise and to the point?
Thank you Tom, I try to do just that now.
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Very informative. Clear and concise . Have just bought my echo show 5 . So glad I found your video to help me set things up .
Hello Patricia, I'm glad you found my video helpful, please check the other videos I created about the Echo Show, you might find those useful also. Thank you.
So glad I searched for this and found your video! I’ve been looking for a way to display a recipe on something other than my phone. Never even heard of Silk, either, and we’ve had Alexa devices since they first came out. What’s interesting is I couldn’t find the dash - character on any of the letter, number, or symbol keyboards and completely missed the big ‘ole microphone icon 🤦🏼♀️ until I watched more of the video so I wasn’t sure if I could even get to the recipe site I needed. Thank you!!
Glad to help and Thank you for your feedback, I don't mind helping.
I don't have Firefox as an option anymore Is there a way to change that
Thank you so much. A friend gave me the Echo show 5 and
I really needed help setting it up..Your videos have made it so much easier. You the Best..thanks again.!
Glad I could help! Thank you very much
THANKS!!!! Can finally use the web browser on Alexa Echo! Great video and so easy to follow. Again, thank you so much!
Thank you sooooo very much! I have just started a guitar course and as a 68 year old, I have been struggling to see the practice videos on my phone, so bought a show 8. After trying for a couple of days to find a convenient workaround, I came across your excellent video, which, has done just that! Once more sincerest thanks for your time and effort. Subscribed.....Bert UK
You are welcome Bert, glad to help and hope I can keep helping in future videos. Keep up the training on the guitar courses, by the way, is that acoustic or electric guitar? Thanks for subscribing & welcome to the channel.
Chard The Tech Guy nice to hear back from you Chard 😁👌 I’m currently using an old Classical guitar, that I found in my garage from years ago, but just ordered an Epiphone SG Special VE HCS, which will be more suitable for my needs! Many thanks once again and keep safe 👍
@@bertlane1539 Alright, enjoy and keep playing. Stay safe.
Thank you! For a video that discusses the device as something other than a toy. I actually called Amazon help about a browser on the device. I was told there was no browser…
You're welcome
Excellent - clear, well-structured and shows the plusses and minuses of the browsers available on the Echo Show 5.
Thank you Charles for your feedback - glad to hear that the info was helpful.
Clear, simple and to the point, easy to understand and follow. Very good video!
Just the Help I was looking for. Great job!!! Clear and to the point👍👍
Thank you and glad to help. Check out the other videos I did about the Echo Show 5.
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First time viewer. I also subscribed. Very good video!
Hello George, thank you very much & thank you for subscribing. Welcome to the channel.
Your Video has been a big help...Thanks Happy New Year!!!
You are welcome - Glad to help & have a Happy, Prosperous & Healthy New Year!!!
Thank you for thoroughly going threw this feature. Awesome!
You are welcome and thank you!
Good job Chard, I learn somthing new every day thanks to your vids, quick question, can I download Apps to my echos show 5?
Thank you Mr. Chard; your clear & concise explanations are great..!!
You are very welcome and thank you
Thanks for that video. I use it in the kitchen, and sometimes want to search the web. That voice search seems useful. I just subscribed to your channel.
Thank you Doug for watching and subscribing, glad you enjoy and find the video useful, here are some more videos I made about the Echo Show ua-cam.com/video/1SMPLHqHq3Q/v-deo.html
Thank you so much. I actually could follow your explanation so well.
Glad to help. Thank you for your feedback.
Great instruction and demo - you keep is framed, not a lot of cuts and the way to get there.
Viewing bookmarked web pages is really the only thing I want an Echo Show for. If it weren't for your thorough overview (which shows the Show 5 is no good for that), I might have wasted my money. So kudos and thanks!
You are welcome - glad to help
Perfect... You are a great help. Thank you very much. Very straight forward and very informative
Thank you very much & Glad to help.
Super helpful, thank you!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you
Thank you for all your tech help!
Glad to to help, anytime!
OMG!! THANK YOU!!!! I was ready to make mine a piece of art on my wall. :)
You are welcome, glad to help. Check out this one too ua-cam.com/video/M0xAiVeucVs/v-deo.html
Thank you for information very helpful
Glad it was helpful! You're welcome.
Chard you are very thorough - thanks from us newbies!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you very much, trying not to be too techie.
Hey, can we use Google Maps in the browser mode in this one ?
This was super great and easy to following. Continue sharing knowledge. Thank you.
Thank you very much & I sure will.
I dont seem to have a firefox browser in my browser settings on a echo show device any reasons why or how I can get it onto it? Thanks for your video!
Very clear information thank you.
You are welcome! Thanks for the feedback
Thank you. That was very helpful.
Glad it was helpful! You're welcome
You helped me out big time👍
You are welcome, glad to help.
Thanks - very helpful, and very well presented.
Thank you Henry
Thanks buddy, good job👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you - glad to help.
Heh, for a moment I was wondering why it muted him saying Alexa (and instead showing the text), then it suddenly clicked. Of course, you don't want to be setting off people's Echo devices. I remember an Xbox One commercial with Aaron Paul giving the console voice commands, and people were complaining because their own consoles were responding to it. :P
Yeah, that's why. Trying to reduce triggering all those Echo devices out there.
I said the same thing. That was smart of him
Really well presented. Thank you for making this video.
You are welcome and thank you for watching. Stay tuned for more.
Great thanks it really help
Glad it helped
Thank you bro useful information
You're welcome - Glad to help
thanks for the info..one question...if i go to a web site that has a video chat feature (not skype)...can I video chat if the camera and mic are enabled?
You are welcome, about the video chat, I don’t think so, but I’ll check into it.
Would you recommend the echo model for streaming Instagram videos (workouts) or workout videos from a website?
I would recommend Echo Show for what you want to do, A tablet would probably be a better route, the browsers are better on a tablet. Echo Show VS Fire HD Tablet & The DOCK - WHICH One To Choose? ua-cam.com/video/AD5MB0J0ox0/v-deo.html
Thank you so much you are a legend
I really appreciate that compliment! Glad I could help! Thank you
Brilliant help 😎
Thank you, glad to help
Nice video dude
Thank you Gary
Thank you so much...now I can use it properly.👍
You're welcome and I'm glad it helped you.👍🏻
Thanks for showing the features I did not know 5*
You are welcome
amazing ! thanks for this!! i finally made it work, very good video!!
Thank you very much & glad to help!
Hi, can we watch Facebook live videos on a browser in echo show 5?
Thanks buddy👍
You are welcome & thank you.
I just put one in my cart. Thanks. Have a great day.
Awesome - Have a marvelous day!!!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Thanks my man
You are welcome.
For you techies out there, do you recommend the silk browser or the Firefox browser? I've always used Firefox but after watching this it seems the Silk browser has more options. Thanks in advance!
Silk is Amazon default browser for the Echo Shows and Fire TV devices, for the Echo Show I've been using both and I'm leaning more towards Firefox. I have a video coming explaining.
Thanks .. didn’t know this was possible
You are welcome EC!
Hello, is there a way to view the browsing history on this device for silk or Firefox browser?
No there's not, I haven't found a way to do that
@@ChardTheTechGuy Thanks for the info 🤘🤘
Hi, I have an older phone which I love, but the Echo Show app won't pair with it. Is there any way I can circumvent that rather than get a new phone?
Hey Liz can you please let me know what kind of phone do you have?
Thanks a lot I hate fire Fox and I could never figure out how to change it. Your a ledgend!
You are very very welcome, thank you for the compliment
Thanks a lot for the review. Is it possible to disable the browser timeout? If you are looking to a video and you do not touch the Echo show, this times out after 3-5mins and exit to the main home page with the clock.
I wish have a solution for that, but it happens to me & other people. Don't think the Silk browser was design to play videos
@@ChardTheTechGuy do you get any solution now?😭
@@rony2op92 Try turning “Adaptive Brightness” in display settings off.
Very goooood
Good show :)
Thank you
Cheers mate, I wanted to activate the browser as an option rather than ask Alexa.....answered my query.
Glad to help - cheers!
Thanks.
Can someone tell me if I can use the desktop view in an echo show 8
No you can't
Does the google nest hub have any of that?
The Home Hub doesn’t have a browser app. However, searching for an image often leads to results that then link to third-party websites like Wikipedia. Follow that link, and you are able to browse pretty much the entire online encyclopedia - with one notable exception: Home Hub doesn’t offer any on-screen keyboard, and there’s no option to dictate text input. This means that you won’t be able to search for anything. (Variety’s Janko Rottgers). To pull up the browser, simply use “OK Google”
Poor options... how about the old good option to set home page ?
Thanks. This was just what I needed. Unfortunately browsing is clumsy - hope Amazon can fix it to make it easier to use because I enjoy the 5 and 8.
You are welcome, yes the browser on these devices are slow and sometimes crash on my devices, let's hope Amazon will improve them this year.
Thanks
You're welcome. Glad to help.
What is the pen you use ?? Thx
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I dont have the web options button available on mine why is that
Not sure why you are not seeing it on your device. Settings - Device Options - Web Options
Nice selection of Clock design for Echo show 5! Thanks!
Echo Show 5 minute timeout on web pages, how can i fix it?
I have that problem too on some websites, I wish I had the answer. It's something Amazon has to fix on their end.
Is it the same UI as Echo show gen 1?
Yes it is, all the same on Show 5, Show 8 & Show
They removed the web options removing the browsers 😡😡😡🤬
Are you saying stroll down the screen?
Sorry I meant to say swipe
@@ChardTheTechGuy It's scroll not stroll lol.. That's what Rob is saying 🤣😂 Good video though
@@joeywilbur9182 Sorry, I'm Jamaican and sometimes my accent jumble up the words. Thank very much
@@ChardTheTechGuy I'm just giving you a hard time bro.. No harm.... I subscribed to your channel
Hi m8 awesome
Thank you
You are so much welcome
I wish it had a desktop mode option
That's would be nice - still room for improvements.
Ummm so your saying that you can’t download app on there 😭😭 I don’t have a phone so on my birthday I only had $75 so I bought this so it could work as a device so I can’t even call people on there because I don’t have a phone so I can’t download the Amazon Alexa app
You can also setup it up if you have a tablet, the app works there too. You can actually make phone calls, check out this video where I show you how. Alexa Dialer - Now You Call Any Number Without Connection To Your Mobile Phone ua-cam.com/video/OJbkA51kYXM/v-deo.html
I also don’t have a tablet now that I think about with my birthday money I could of bought the fire tablet 7
Hi I wanted to buy echo 8 but will it allow me to add my own apps or only from Google play store?
No you can’t just add your own apps and you cannot go to the Google play store from this device either
See i cant use whatsapp web,google meet for my online classes just because it doesn't have desktop site..there are no settings to request desktop site.. anyone help?
You can forget that happening, this is a very basic browser, for light browsing
@@ChardTheTechGuy yep that's true..but u know what i manage to cast my mobile using airdroid,
Just recently bought an Echo Show 5 and I don't see anywhere in the settings for web options. Did they remove this option from the devices?
Me too ..cant find it anywhere
@@vicki17antonia I was able to figure it out. You have to go into the Alexa app and find your device and make sure Free Time is disabled.
It's on the Device Option - Web Options
I find it frustrating that you can’t access Netflix, even through the browser. I wonder if this is because they see it as direct competition to Prime Video? My Echo Show lives in the kitchen & the only thing I use the browser for is to either watch You Tube for recipes or watching BBC iplayer.
Tina, that is a good question but I don't think is a direct competition because they have the Netflix App on the Firestick, but it would be nice to have that app on the Echo Show. Let's hope it will show up on those devices in the future.
Echo show without tab bar
What is the pen you are using??
Can you watch NFL games on these?
I wouldn't recommend it - it would be better on the Fire HD Tablets
How hard is it to surf the net on such a small screen? Just curious.
It's not that great of user experience, because you can't constantly hold it in your hand like a phone. But it's there if you need it.
@@ChardTheTechGuy Thanks. Kind of what I was thinking.
I like cookies 🍪
They are Delicious
Stroll down?
🤔
When Google is your browser you just ask alexa to go to google
luckily she understands ebonics