Just days before it was due to be included in Firefox’s stable version, Mozilla has announced that its Metro-mode shell for Firefox has been cancelled.
Vice President of Firefox Jonathan Nightingale attributed the decision to a lack of user interest in a touch friendly version of the browser for Windows 8’s Metro environment. Although millions of people use prerelease versions of the desktop browser, he wrote that fewer than 1,000 used the Metro shell each day.
This in turn meant that the Metro front-end was insufficiently tested, and the work to fix it would benefit few users. This was felt to be a poor use of resources, and so the project has been cancelled.
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