According to its 2012 Strategy & Roadmap, the company has plans for a proof-of-concept Win8 Firefox release in Q2 of this year. In that document, Mozilla reveals that a "simple evolution" of its existing browser will work with the "Classic" environment, but brand new new front-end and integration code is needed for Firefox to play nice with Metro.
The plan is to build a Gecko-basedbrowser that brings full Firefox capabilities and can handle Windows 8's unique requirements like being suspended by the OS when it's not being viewed and supporting multiple "snap" states to ensure a good browsing experience when multiple apps are open. Looks like Mozilla's crew of coders has their work cut out for them, and you can peep for more here.
5 comments:
This Windows 8 thing is actually looking better and better :).
could be interesting.
Great news for Firefox and Windows, this Windows 8 thing is going to be so cool.
Windows 8 was fun to test drive, but I hope they can still appeal to the old schoolers, or they may be stuck.
Can't say I'm a fan of that style yet.
Post a Comment