read the rest here:Mozilla scraps Metro version of Firefox, citing low interest | Internet & Media - CNET NewsAfter more than two years of work, Mozilla has scrapped its effort to build a Metro-specific version of Firefox for Windows 8, saying that users have shown almost no interest.
Microsoft designed what it previously called the Metro interface for touch-screen devices like tablets and introduced it with Windows 8 along with a version of Internet Explorer designed to run on it. Two years ago, after winning a debate with Microsoft over whether it even could be possible to bring a modern third-party browser to Metro, Mozilla embarked on its Firefox for Metro journey.
Now it's over for now, though Firefox will mothball the code in case it needs to change its mind.
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I find the former more useful (and more annoying) than the latter.
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Well yes Firefox can do what it darn well pleases because it is your choice if you want to use Firefox or not. And not to mention the tiny fact that it is free? Now IE...much different story, even though I have paid for it and do not use it, I can not get rid of it. So if I bought it, should I not be given a bit of a right to tweak it?
Well yes Firefox can do what it darn well pleases because it is your choice if you want to use Firefox or not. And not to mention the tiny fact that it is free? Now IE...much different story, even though I have paid for it and do not use it, I can not get rid of it. So if I bought it, should I not be given a bit of a right to tweak it?
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