Mozilla Planning Firefox Metro For Windows 8 On December 10 179
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla is finally getting close to releasing a Metro version of its Firefox browser that will run on Windows RT as well as the tablet-side of Windows 8. The touch flavor of the app will arrive on December 10 along with Firefox 26. That's assuming, of course, that there won't be more delays. Given what we've seen so far, we wouldn't be surprised to see a final Metro version arrive in 2014."
This is NOT for Windows RT (Score:5, Informative)
Summary is incorrect.
Re:what?! (Score:1, Informative)
Lol so fucking up the OS and making it malware is the solution to looking stale? There's at least 10 different solutions to that starting with VECTOR graphics for window rendering.
Windows 8 is a piece of crap it has no excuses. Its ok to be a piece of crap but its nice when those pieces of shits admit it instead of mocking you and pretending to be the most elite leadership material known to mankind.
Windows 8 deserves whatever flack it gets. We have the right to bitch about it and flame it into oblivion.
Though I doubt it will do any good.
Though I don't blame windows 8 for being generally featureless piece of crap missing a command line and any useful IT utilities out of the box. Thats a windows problem in general.
Re:what?! (Score:4, Informative)
For many, if not most people it is. While seven fixed most of vista's epic failures to tolerable levels, it still contains quite a few.
Now you can in fact nullify most of the failures that are retained, largely using same software that helps nullify much of win8's fails, namely classicshell. But it's still worse, and personally I'd still be happily running XP if not for lack of proper 64-bit support (specifically lack of hardware drivers for 64-bit version of XP) and lack of DX11 ('m a gamer).
Other than those two features, XP is clearly better in my experience. I don't even mind EOL. I had a workstation in personal use that ran vanilla unpatched XP until well past XP SP2 age because windows update borked itself so hard on the system, it couldn't be updated. I just kept the infection vectors secure and it was fine. I.e. solid firewall, solid anti-virus software, up to date 3rd party software that could be used as infection vectors, no suspicious flash drives and so on.
Not a single virus. Hilariously, when I got myself an XP2 slipstreamed disk I forgot to unplug internet connection before installing. That machine got owned before I could install firewall software. I had to format and reinstall. But vanilla version with up to date firewall etc? No problems whatsoever.