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."
FF Rant 4726 (Score:0, Insightful)
Fuck FireFox, they jack around with it every version, adding or removing features based on crack logic, and breaking shit for the hell of it. They even made it block Youtube just to fuck with us with their "mixed mode" https paranoia lies. Jerkasses!
Re:FF Rant 4726 (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:FF Rant 4726 (Score:0, Insightful)
Fuck FireFox, they jack around with it every version, adding or removing features based on crack logic, and breaking shit for the hell of it. They even made it block Youtube just to fuck with us with their "mixed mode" https paranoia lies. Jerkasses!
STOP USING FIREFOX
Seriously it has been years since Firefox went down the gutter. IE 9/10 is better than Firefox at this point and this is saying quite a lot.
Re:what?! (Score:1, Insightful)
You are full of crap. It's like those people who complain about anything just for the sake of complaining. Face it, Windows 7 was looking stale in a world of osx, Android and iOS. Sure it has a very productive interface, but so does OSX while looking way better. Those interfaces might not be perfect, but you can bet your ass that if there was any desktop environment even remotely similar to osx for linux (and I mean in terms of everything just works TM and really good graphics), Linux users would be flocking to it. And in a way Ubuntu is like a well done hybrid and Cinammon is what Windows Vista/7 should have been.
So really, just step down from that pedestal and just enjoy whatever platform, because each has its own strenghts and weaknesses
Re:what?! (Score:5, Insightful)
You lost us as soon as you said XP is better than 7.
It isn't.
The trouble with Windows 8 is it's Vista - enough small things are annoying that it adds up to a great big annoyance. If they'd just finish it off (clue: listen to customers), it could be great.
Re:what?! (Score:5, Insightful)
Don't miss the forest hidden behind all those trees - The start button simply serves as a convenient proxy for a hard-to-articulate sense of generalized annoyance.
Yes, Win8's interface has some serious shortcomings, particularly for power users. Yes, it still works more-or-less okay as a GUI, and if forced to use it for a few weeks, most of us would just get used to it. But the entire Metro interface slaps us with Microsoft's sheer arrogance in randomly deciding to make change for its own sake rather than because people asked for it.
As another example that makes the point in a less "wow so much I don't know where to start" way, the "ribbons" in MS office. I liked menus and toolbars, and aesthetically dislike ribbons. But I will admit that they don't take any longer (or shorter!) to use once you get used to them - Once you get used to them. But why the hell should anyone need to get used to them? Okay, they do offer a few enhancements (in-place font and chart previews as obvious examples) over toolbars...Not out of any inherent quality of ribbons themselves, however, but simple because MS added new features that they didn't backport to toolbars. Change for change's sake.