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But a Metro version of Firefox is being worked on[1]: in light of that, how does the removal of desktop style apps impact Mozilla? It does not appear to. [1]:
by DHowett 14y ago
But a Metro version of Firefox is being worked on[1]: in light of that, how does the removal of desktop style apps impact Mozilla? It does not appear to.
[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Windows8 https://wiki.mozilla.org/Windows8
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- fpgeek 14y agoDid you read the "Open issues/risks" section? That makes it clear that any Metro for Firefox on Windows 8 depends on special accommodations from Microsoft that (so far as we know) won't be available on ARM.
- DHowett 14y agoI did, but none of that is mentioned in either the original Mozilla blog post or this article. We have no reason to believe that disabling desktop mode precludes an application acting as a Gecko rendering bridge for a Metro UI. They seem completely unrelated: in fact, the only way they could be is if one expects a Desktop Firefox to run in the background and serve pages to Metro. That's not listed in their design plans and, furthermore, is not how IE works on the same platform. I will admit to not having read the Application development guidelines for Windows RT. It could potentially be a sandbox violation, depending on the aforementioned guidelines - however, that's a completely different issue, and it's not "Microsoft locking Mozilla out of the market by removing desktop mode."
- fpgeek 14y agoAs someone else notes, Firefox needs to break out of Metro to JIT JavaScript, at the very least. For third parties, there's nothing other than Metro on ARM, so how would that be possible (absent special accommodation from Microsoft)?