If you’re using the desktop version, and want to get to the modern touch based interface, click the Firefox button and then Relaunch in Firefox for Windows 8 Touch. One of the interesting features searching from the “Awesome bar.” While typing in your query, it provides four different search engines to pick from. You’ll get onscreen tips where things are as well as touch gestures. The touch version of Firefox looks and acts like you’d expect from a Windows 8.1 modern app.
Otherwise you’ll see the message below.Īfter Firefox is installed, you’ll see you still have the typical desktop version as well as a Firefox tile on the Windows 8.1 Start screen. And yes, that means you can’t get it on touch devices running Windows RT.īefore installing it, make sure you have any other instance of Firefox that’s running closed. What’s interesting is you don’t install it from the Windows store, but instead download and install an executable file. “When I talk about the need to pick our battles, this feels like a bad one to pick: significant investment and low impact,” he said.First download Firefox for Windows 8 Touch Beta. That leaves Mozilla with a choice between pulling the browser or shipping it without enough “real-world” testing, which means bugs will be found only once it’s live, leading to follow-up work for developers. On any given day we have, for instance, millions of people testing pre-release versions of Firefox desktop, but we’ve never seen more than 1,000 active daily users in the Metro environment.” “In the months since, as the team built and tested and refined the product, we’ve been watching Metro’s adoption,” he said. He said Mozilla initially thought that Metro would be “the next battleground for the web” because Microsoft “pushes its new platforms hard” and Windows has a large existing user base. He acknowledged that the interface is now called Modern UI, but explained that Metro “remains how we talk about it in Mozilla”.
The reason it would be a mistake, Nightingale went on, is that very few people are testing the software on Metro.
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