Mozilla Shows off a Metro Style Firefox Prototype for Windows 8
Mozilla reached another milestone
Mozilla has moved one step closer to its goal of delivering a “Metro style enabled browser.” In a status update earlier yesterday, Mozilla’s Brian R. Bondy announced that his team had produced a “working Firefox Windows 8 Metro prototype”: As of last week, we have a working browser in Metro. It currently looks and feels the same as the Android browser. You can navigate the web, create tabs, bookmark pages, build history, retain cache, adjust preferences, and more.
It’s a preliminary step, says Bondy. “We still have some open design questions, and a ton of platform integration work to do.” He also notes that the “UI will be changing,” and that feedback on the user experience (UX) design has not yet begun. Considering that development began only a few weeks ago, the progress to date is reasonable. Part of the reason for the accelerated progress is the team’s ability to use the existing Firefox mobile browser, Fennec. Surprisingly, Fennec “just worked” on Windows 8, in sharp comparison to the performance problems they experienced using the same code base on Android.
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