likely to strike the release channel in late January
Over the weekend, Mozilla pressed
a new build of Firefox to the Aurora channel. Built from the ground up for
Microsoft’s Windows 8 Modern UI, this pre-beta build brings with it, among
other things, a tile-based Firefox Start experience.
This touch-friendly Firefox build also supports Windows 8 touch
and swipe gestures, Snapped and Fill views, and Windows Share integration, the
open-source outfit said in a blog post Saturday.
While the new interface is said to be more “streamlined, modern and beautiful”,
not a lot has changed under the hood.
“Because this new version
of Firefox uses the same powerful Gecko rendering engine as in Firefox desktop,
there’s also support for WebGL for compelling 3D graphics and asm.js which
supercharges JavaScript in the browser, allowing developers to port high
performance C++ games to the Web,” Mozilla wrote in the blog post. “ Hardware
accelerated full HTML5 video is also supported, including open video formats
like WebM and proprietary formats such as H.264.”
“To test it out, first
make sure that Firefox Aurora is your Windows 8 default browser. Then visit the
Windows Start screen (if you’re on Windows 8) to locate the Firefox Aurora
tile. Visit the All Apps screen if you’re on Windows 8.1 where you can locate
the Firefox Aurora tile and pin it to the Windows Start screen.”
Despite having been under development for well over a year now, Firefox Metro is still a fair way from general
availability, which Mozilla recently pushed back to late January, 2014 on account of
slower-than-expected development.
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