Today’s Aurora update for Firefox offers our broad community of Mozillians, especially our global localization and testing communities, an exciting early look at the newest member of the Firefox family, designed and coded from the ground up for Microsoft’s Windows 8 Modern UI. Try it out now and share your feedback.
This touch-friendly version of Firefox has been designed to ensure people get the best browsing experience on their Windows 8 tablet. It has a tile-based Firefox Start experience and supports Firefox Sync, Windows 8 touch and swipe gestures, Snapped and Fill views, and Windows Share integration all delivered with a streamlined, modern and beautiful interface.
Because this new version of Firefox uses the same powerful Gecko rendering engine as in Firefox desktop, there’s also support for WebGL for compelling 3D graphics and asm.js which supercharges JavaScript in the browser, allowing developers to port high performance C++ games to the Web. Hardware accelerated full HTML5 video is also supported, including open video formats like WebM and proprietary formats such as H.264.
To test it out, first make sure that Firefox Aurora is your Windows 8 default browser. Then visit the Windows Start screen (if you’re on Windows 8) to locate the Firefox Aurora tile. Visit the All Apps screen if you’re on Windows 8.1 where you can locate the Firefox Aurora tile and pin it to the Windows Start screen. Find more details here.
Over the coming weeks, we’ll be almost exclusively focused on improving performance and responsiveness.
Source: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurerele...w-of-firefox-optimized-for-windows-8-tablets/