firefox Mozilla planning Win8 metro-specific Firefox browser

[Dot Matrix]

Mozilla has announced plans to release a metro-fied version of Firefox, specifically for Windows 8. There?s not an awful lot of information, but what?s there makes interesting reading.

• The goal is a new Gecko based browser built for and integrated with the Metro environment. This will require a new Firefox front end and system integration points.
  
• Firefox on Metro will be full screen and focused on touch interactions.
  
• The browser will bring all of the Gecko capabilities to this new environment. Mozilla hope that the browser will run as a medium integrity app so that the win32 Firefox Gecko libraries can be accessed to avoiding a port to the new WinRT API for the bulk of the code.
  
• The browser will feature an Appbar that will house common navigation controls (back, reload, etc.,) the Awesomebar, and some form of tabs.
  
• It will support three ?snap? states - full screen, ~1/6th screen and ~5/6th screen depending on how the user ?docks? two full screen apps.
  

Mozilla hopes to have a proof of concept ready for the second quarter of 2012, and alpha and beta releases are expected to be made available in the second half of 2012.

Source: Hardware 2.0 (ZDNet) / Mozilla

[_neutrino Veteran]

I would not mind checking out what their design would look like for metro it might be nice. some of the application designs that i have seen for metro look rather nice. its the metro tiles themselves that are my only complaint.

[FMH]

These guys probably got an ARM developer's tablet from Microsoft.

Looking forward to Firefox Metro.

[alexalex]

They, and Chrome, Opera... have to develop a browser for WOA/Windos 8 as EU won't allow IE10 pre-installed with WOA/Windows 8 and will demand a browser ballot screen. As applications for WOA will be installed only via Microsoft's store, Microsoft will have to propose other browsers in its store.

[jakem1]

It's a shame they couldn't stept things up and have this ready for the Win8 launch.

They, and Chrome, Opera... have to develop a browser for WOA/Windos 8 as EU won't allow IE10 pre-installed with WOA/Windows 8 and will demand a browser ballot screen. As applications for WOA will be installed only via Microsoft's store, Microsoft will have to propose other browsers in its store.

Citation needed.