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Does anyone know the state of a Modern UI (what used to be called Metro) version of Firefox. I've recently switched to Windows 8 and love it apart from the lack

Does anyone know the state of a Modern UI (what used to be called Metro) version of Firefox. I've recently switched to Windows 8 and love it apart from the lack of a native Firefox, obviously I can run the desktop version but I'd rather use the new UI where possible. The last release/mention I found was a preview [1] in October last year and then nothing but tumbleweed ... [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2012/10/04/firefox-metro-preview/ https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2012/10/04/firefox-m...

padenot 14y ago
(Mozilla dev here) I can guarantee you that people are working on it. I don't know the specifics, but it's coming along. You can follow the commits here [1]. Of course because it is free software, if you are not afraid to test a early prototype, you can get a build for every push to the repo. It is a bit complicated (lots of clicks in our custom CI interface), tell me if you are interested. [1]: http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/elm/ http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/elm/, the elm branch being the repo where people work on Win8 support.
- sequence7 14y ago
  Thanks padenot, it would be great if you could point me in the direction of where to find the builds.
  - padenot 14y ago
    - Go to [1] (our CI) - Find a green "B" on a Win opt line (meaning that a build has succeeded for a Windows Optimized build), click on it, a panel appears at the bottom - On the bottom left of the page, you can see a link named "go to build directory". Click on it, that sends you to the location where the CI stores the build - In the list, there is an installer executable, that you can use to install this particular Firefox build (for examples: "firefox-20.0a1.en-US.win32.installer.exe"). Please keep in mind this is very much a work in progress, and it is likely to break horribly, maybe destroying your computer in the process (you never know :D). No warranties, blah blah blah. If you find bugs, it would be much appreciated to have them filed on bugzila.mozilla.org. [1]: https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Elm https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Elm
  - mbrubeck 14y ago
    Hi, I'm an engineer on the Metro Firefox team. Here's the best place to get a nightly build with Metro enabled. Needless to say, these are unsupported development snapshots and are not ready yet for everyday browsing: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-elm/firefox-20.0a1.en-US.win32.installer.exe http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates... We hope to enable Metro in the main (mozilla-central) nightly builds within the next few weeks.
- arcatek 14y ago
  Please don't make the same mistake than Chrome (ie. make a Metro app which almost prevent using the desktop version). http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140347 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140347

padenot 14y ago

(Mozilla dev here) I can guarantee you that people are working on it. I don't know the specifics, but it's coming along. You can follow the commits here [1]. Of course because it is free software, if you are not afraid to test a early prototype, you can get a build for every push to the repo. It is a bit complicated (lots of clicks in our custom CI interface), tell me if you are interested. [1]: http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/elm/ http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/elm/, the elm branch being the repo where people work on Win8 support.

sequence7 14y ago
Thanks padenot, it would be great if you could point me in the direction of where to find the builds.
- padenot 14y ago
  - Go to [1] (our CI) - Find a green "B" on a Win opt line (meaning that a build has succeeded for a Windows Optimized build), click on it, a panel appears at the bottom - On the bottom left of the page, you can see a link named "go to build directory". Click on it, that sends you to the location where the CI stores the build - In the list, there is an installer executable, that you can use to install this particular Firefox build (for examples: "firefox-20.0a1.en-US.win32.installer.exe"). Please keep in mind this is very much a work in progress, and it is likely to break horribly, maybe destroying your computer in the process (you never know :D). No warranties, blah blah blah. If you find bugs, it would be much appreciated to have them filed on bugzila.mozilla.org. [1]: https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Elm https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Elm
- mbrubeck 14y ago
  Hi, I'm an engineer on the Metro Firefox team. Here's the best place to get a nightly build with Metro enabled. Needless to say, these are unsupported development snapshots and are not ready yet for everyday browsing: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-elm/firefox-20.0a1.en-US.win32.installer.exe http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates... We hope to enable Metro in the main (mozilla-central) nightly builds within the next few weeks.
arcatek 14y ago
Please don't make the same mistake than Chrome (ie. make a Metro app which almost prevent using the desktop version). http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140347 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140347