{"id":738086,"date":"2013-02-14T12:26:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T17:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=216842"},"modified":"2013-02-14T12:26:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T17:26:53","slug":"touch-friendly-firefox-for-windows-8-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/738086","title":{"rendered":"Touch Friendly Firefox For Windows 8 Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla was one of the first browser vendors to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/firefox-for-windows-8-metro-now-in-development-2012-03\">announce support for Windows 8<\/a> in March of last year. At that time, the company said it would be take advantage of the Metro UI to create a touch-enabled version of the popular Web browser that conformed to Microsoft&#8217;s Metro design principles. It&#8217;s been almost a year since then, and Metro Firefox is finally out in Firefox Nightly. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FirefoxNightly\/status\/302046995172954112\">Mozilla announced via Twitter<\/a> today that a Windows 8 Metro UI version of Firefox is <a href=\"http:\/\/nightly.mozilla.org\/\">now available in the Nightly distribution. <\/a>Firefox Nightly is the highly experimental version of Firefox so expect a few bugs. <\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t want to take on Firefox Nightly, you can check out some screenshots of Mozilla&#8217;s preliminary work in <a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/d5feb#0\">Metro-fying Firefox<\/a> here: <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.ientry.com\/sites\/webpronews\/article_pics\/ffwin8nightly1.png?w=780\" alt=\"Firefox Windows 8 Touch Friendly\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.ientry.com\/sites\/webpronews\/article_pics\/ffwin8nightly2.png?w=780\" alt=\"Touch Friendly Firefox For Windows 8 Now Available\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The design being used here is the similar to the UI currently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/mozilla-shows-off-new-firefox-for-android-design-2012-05\"> used by Firefox for Android.<\/a> There are a few Metro-ifications on display here, however, that I hope make their way into Firefox for Android at some point. Most noticeably, the bookmarks display in the Windows 8 version of Firefox is far superior to the simplistic drop down list on Android. Good thing somebody at Mozilla is already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/mozilla-mozaic-might-be-the-future-of-bookmarks-2012-10\">working on something like that. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>[h\/t: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-57569401-93\/firefox-adapts-to-windows-8-touch-first-interface\/\">CNET<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=uwZ7oI_6FtU:GmyUYQANuXU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=uwZ7oI_6FtU:GmyUYQANuXU:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=uwZ7oI_6FtU:GmyUYQANuXU:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=uwZ7oI_6FtU:GmyUYQANuXU:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=uwZ7oI_6FtU:GmyUYQANuXU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=uwZ7oI_6FtU:GmyUYQANuXU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=uwZ7oI_6FtU:GmyUYQANuXU:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=uwZ7oI_6FtU:GmyUYQANuXU:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=uwZ7oI_6FtU:GmyUYQANuXU:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/uwZ7oI_6FtU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla was one of the first browser vendors to announce support for Windows 8 in March of last year. At that time, the company said it would be take advantage of the Metro UI to create a touch-enabled version of the popular Web browser that conformed to Microsoft&#8217;s Metro design principles. 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