Mozilla kills Firefox browser for Windows 8 Metro

March 15, 2014

Shipping a final version of the Mozilla Firefox browser for the Windows 8 "Metro" environment "would be a mistake," according to a Mozilla vice president, because of the relatively minuscule number of users on the platform.In fact, Mozilla has never seen more than 1,000 users pre-testing the beta version of Mozilla, said Johnathan Nightingale, the vice president of Firefox, in a blog post on Friday. But on any given day, millions of of people test pre-release versions of Firefox on other platforms, he added."Mozilla builds software to make the world better, but we have to pick our battles," Nightingale wrote. "We’re not as tiny as we were when we shipped Firefox 1.0, but we still need to focus on the projects with the most impact for our mission; the massive scale of our competitors and of the work to be done requires us to marshal our forces appropriately."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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