Firefox For Windows 8 Scraped, Mozilla Stops Development

reason cited is one that is all too familiar — poor adoption of Microsoft’s Modern UI. The company says that people are not really all that much interested in a Metro version of the popular web browser, because not many people use it in the modern environment. So much so that even though Firefox for Windows 8 was already available for beta testing, Mozilla did not record more than a thousand users a day:

“In the months since, as the team built and tested and refined the product, we’ve been watching Metro’s adoption. From what we can see, it’s pretty flat. On any given day we have, for instance, millions of people testing pre-release versions of Firefox desktop, but we’ve never seen more than 1000 active daily users in the Metro environment.”
One can imagine the fact that it was the beta test version had nothing to do with it, right? Mozilla further claims that while it could have shipped it like this, but doing so would mean very limited real-world testing. This would result in bugs, follow-up engineering, quality assurance, and more importantly diversion of resources to maintain the application. Instead, the company has decided to focus more on projects that are more important for the company, like the desktop build of Firefox. Which, between me and you, is now also stuck, stalled, and going nowhere really. But with Firefox for Windows 8 now out of business (at least for the foreseeable future), Internet Explorer pretty much remains the sole choice for users that live and breathe the Modern UI in operating systems like Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.]]>

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