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Windows on ARM Users Need Browser Choice Too
- cpeterso 14y agoSo Windows 8 on ARM only allows IE to run in the Classic environment and Windows 8 on x86/64 only allows one browser (not necessarily IE) to run in the Metro environment? This sounds like a return of the 1990s Microsoft everyone loved to hate.
- wmf 14y agoWindows 8 on x86/64 only allows one browser (not necessarily IE) to run in the Metro environment I haven't seen anything about that; you should be able to run IE and Firefox.
- cpeterso 14y agoMicrosoft will allow Metro browsers other than IE, but that browser must be set as the user's default browser for both Metro and Desktop environments. So you can't run Metro IE and Metro Firefox simultaneously or default to Desktop IE and Metro Firefox. http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/id/129/firefox-metro-development-begins-status-update http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/id/129/firefox-metro-developm... A browser can only participate in Metro mode if it is the default browser. So if Firefox is not the default browser on a system, you can't use it in Metro mode. This is a decision made by Microsoft.
- dragonbonheur 14y agoMaybe Mozilla should code for the new version of the extremely efficient RiscOS on Raspberry PI that's due soon and get on with life. Windows 8 will be a failure anyway.