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Firefox for Windows 8 Modern UI delayed

Jonathan Riggall

Jonathan Riggall

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As we predicted last month, Firefox for Windows 8 Modern UI has been delayed until late January 2014. Mozilla had estimated a December 10th release this year, but as it had already been pushed back, this delay is not a surprise.

Firefox is well behind Internet Explorer and Chrome – IE for Modern UI obviously came out with Windows 8, but even Chrome has been out since January 2012. Firefox has been struggling in recent months against the competition, and as more and more PCs are sold with Windows 8, the longer there is no Modern UI version, the worse off it will get.

Firefox for Windows 8 Modern UI delayed

Mozilla is hoping to get more user feedback with its latest Aurora release. Out today, Firefox 26 Aurora features Mozilla’s Metro Preview, but ‘whether or not the Metro Preview Release will graduate from Aurora to Beta and Release channels is still to be determined.’

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