Mozilla Scraps Firefox For Windows 8, Citing Low Adoption of Metro

Posted by timothy on Friday March 14, 2014 @11:03AM from the when-the-burglars-bring-your-couch-back dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla today announced it is abandoning the Metro version of its Firefox browser, before the first release for Windows 8 even sees the light of day. Firefox Vice President Johnathan Nightingale ordered the company's engineering leads and release managers to halt development earlier this week, saying that shipping a 1.0 version "would be a mistake." Mozilla says it simply does not have the resources nor the scale of its competitors, and it has to pick its battles. The Metro platform (which has since been renamed to Modern UI, but many prefer the older name) simply doesn't help the organization achieve its mission as well as other platforms Firefox is available for: Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android."

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Re:I don't get it by spire3661 · 2014-03-14 12:15 · Score: 2, Funny

The only thing the VLC Metro app does is crash.

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Good-bye
Re:Good by FuzzNugget · 2014-03-14 17:42 · Score: 4, Funny

Since you can only run one thing at a time, I'd be OK if they called it "Window"
Re:Good by Anonymous Coward · 2014-03-14 20:34 · Score: 2, Funny

Or just "Pane"...
Re:Good by Anonymous Coward · 2014-03-14 22:32 · Score: 2, Funny

So I can't do what I want to do, for longer?