Microsoft, the undeniable King of software, has been a world leader in software products for many years now. In that time, they have seen success like no other company. Among the successful products, the Windows Operating System series is what catapulted them to unparalleled popularity in the software universe. Windows 8 is one of the latest operating system software recently introduced by the Software Giant.
Mozilla, the free software community which produces the Firefox web browser, has long delayed releasing Firefox for Windows 8 tablets. However, the happy news is that the Mozilla foundation has finally made its first public appearance outside of the relatively obscure and quite unstable Nightly development channel. As the foundation or community announced today, the chrome-less tablet version of Firefox that actually runs on Windows 8’s Metro/Modern User Interface mode, is present in the Aurora release channel. After that it will arrive in the stable release version which will be here sometime late January 2014. A lot of the Microsoft support channels are being bogged with enquiries into this.
Firefox no more includes interface elements that typically line our browser windows, just as the Metro version of Internet Explorer. However, instead of that, it uses certain swipe gestures and two large buttons on both sides of the screen. You might observe the + button on the right is for opening new tabs, and the one on the left is the back button.
The free browser uses the same Gecko rendering engine as you see being used in the desktop version, and also includes support for Mozilla’s asm.js and WebGL, for high-performance JavaScript apps.
Just as Chrome for Modern UI or Internet Explorer for Modern UI, Firefox for Modern UI does not share bookmarks, passwords, or history with the desktop version. Instead of that, the users have to use Firefox Sync or other tools, used for Synchronizing or sharing information between the two browsers. However, if you are wondering, the Modern UI version is mostly similar to any other third-party browser, as it would not run on Windows RT.
The Mozilla community has stressed that this is obviously a pre-release version. It seems that the Mozilla support team feels the user interface is available; however, as per today’s announcement, the team plans to focus decidedly on enhancing performance and responsiveness. Obviously you could try it for yourself; you just need to download the latest Aurora version of Firefox. After that, you require to make sure to make it your default browser.
If you have problems setting this up, try and avail yourself of Mozilla support for this version of the browser. And if the problem lies with Windows, then get in touch with Microsoft support to fix the issue on that end.
Mozilla, the free software community which produces the Firefox web browser, has long delayed releasing Firefox for Windows 8 tablets. However, the happy news is that the Mozilla foundation has finally made its first public appearance outside of the relatively obscure and quite unstable Nightly development channel. As the foundation or community announced today, the chrome-less tablet version of Firefox that actually runs on Windows 8’s Metro/Modern User Interface mode, is present in the Aurora release channel. After that it will arrive in the stable release version which will be here sometime late January 2014. A lot of the Microsoft support channels are being bogged with enquiries into this.
Firefox no more includes interface elements that typically line our browser windows, just as the Metro version of Internet Explorer. However, instead of that, it uses certain swipe gestures and two large buttons on both sides of the screen. You might observe the + button on the right is for opening new tabs, and the one on the left is the back button.
The free browser uses the same Gecko rendering engine as you see being used in the desktop version, and also includes support for Mozilla’s asm.js and WebGL, for high-performance JavaScript apps.
Just as Chrome for Modern UI or Internet Explorer for Modern UI, Firefox for Modern UI does not share bookmarks, passwords, or history with the desktop version. Instead of that, the users have to use Firefox Sync or other tools, used for Synchronizing or sharing information between the two browsers. However, if you are wondering, the Modern UI version is mostly similar to any other third-party browser, as it would not run on Windows RT.
The Mozilla community has stressed that this is obviously a pre-release version. It seems that the Mozilla support team feels the user interface is available; however, as per today’s announcement, the team plans to focus decidedly on enhancing performance and responsiveness. Obviously you could try it for yourself; you just need to download the latest Aurora version of Firefox. After that, you require to make sure to make it your default browser.
If you have problems setting this up, try and avail yourself of Mozilla support for this version of the browser. And if the problem lies with Windows, then get in touch with Microsoft support to fix the issue on that end.
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