After 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.