Microsoft to let Windows 8 web browsers play nice with Metro, Firefox version in the works
Author: William Miller
We previously heard that Mozilla was planning a Metro version of Firefox, and now developer Brian R. Bondy has announced that the company has begun work on it. While that’s good for Firefox fans, the real news is that the program is going to belong to a new, third type of Windows 8 apps: “Metro style enabled desktop browsers.” We’re still trying to figure it all out (and we think Microsoft is too), but from what we understand, this new, third type is an exception to Microsoft’s rules and lets traditional Windows web browsers participate in the Metro experience. The third category would co-exist alongside Windows 8′s two current categories — one for apps in the traditional, Windows 7-like environment, and another for those that belong…
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