Metro Firefox for Windows 8 Postponed to Late January 2014

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Mozilla is blaming slow progress as the reason for the delay.

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  • stevejnb
    Unfortunate, and could well be a sign of a potential indefinite hold depending on whether RT actually catches on a bit in the future. I like Explorer fine for Metro, but having another browser option would be quite nice.
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  • srap
    "Mozilla is blaming slow progress as the reason for the delay."
    And here I was thinking polar bears riding dragons were the reason of delay.
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  • qlum
    Well considering windows rt is not much of a success and its pretty stupid to use a metro browser on a laptop or desktop I think it should not have priority.
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  • Pherule
    Don't see the point in this. I'm using Firefox on Windows 8 just fine, nobody needs Firefox Metro . Firefox devs need to focus full effort into making Firefox multiprocess. They've made some progress, but there's still a long way to go.
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  • stevejnb
    11559231 said:
    Well considering windows rt is not much of a success and its pretty stupid to use a metro browser on a laptop or desktop I think it should not have priority.

    Well, simply put, for touch the Metro interface tends to be far better, and there are millions of touch enabled Windows 8/RT devices out there. On the go, Metro OS's make a lot of sense. Though it's only a small fraction of the market, and obviously it shouldn't take top priority, having SOME non-IE browser in Metro would be a good thing for a not insignificant number of users.
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  • back_by_demand
    Qlum, RT may not be a success, but 5 times as many have sold as Chromebooks in less than half the time, but I don't see people dissing Google or it's stable of software - Windows 8 is not going to go away and not having a product is commercial suicide, they need to hurry the hell up before they become more irrelevant than they already are
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  • math1337
    11560855 said:
    Qlum, RT may not be a success, but 5 times as many have sold as Chromebooks in less than half the time, but I don't see people dissing Google or it's stable of software - Windows 8 is not going to go away and not having a product is commercial suicide, they need to hurry the hell up before they become more irrelevant than they already are

    Chrome OS is pretty terribad. Google really needs to step it up and make a real flavor of linux. The thing is, Chome OS matters so little that no one even bothers dissing it.

    FF devs should worry about fixing outstanding bugs before trying to add new features. There's a problem when your bug reports can sit untouched for years until some dev decides to bother fixing the issue.
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  • g-unit1111
    11560855 said:
    Qlum, RT may not be a success, but 5 times as many have sold as Chromebooks in less than half the time, but I don't see people dissing Google or it's stable of software - Windows 8 is not going to go away and not having a product is commercial suicide, they need to hurry the hell up before they become more irrelevant than they already are

    I just got a Surface RT and it's a great device. But it would be absolutely spectacular and outsell iPad and Android devices 2:1 had Microsoft not made the cardinal mistake of locking the operating system and limiting it exclusively to ARM development. If the Surface could run x86 apps, you'd see people in Times Square camping out to get their hands on the latest RT devices.
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  • stevejnb
    11562444 said:
    11560855 said:
    Qlum, RT may not be a success, but 5 times as many have sold as Chromebooks in less than half the time, but I don't see people dissing Google or it's stable of software - Windows 8 is not going to go away and not having a product is commercial suicide, they need to hurry the hell up before they become more irrelevant than they already are

    I just got a Surface RT and it's a great device. But it would be absolutely spectacular and outsell iPad and Android devices 2:1 had Microsoft not made the cardinal mistake of locking the operating system and limiting it exclusively to ARM development. If the Surface could run x86 apps, you'd see people in Times Square camping out to get their hands on the latest RT devices.

    A Surface tablet that runs x86 applications? You mean like the Surface Pro?
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  • agnickolov
    I'd love to get this on my Surface Pro. I have the desktop Firefox browser running there and to be honest, the experience with IE is far better...
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