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It took nearly a year after the first appearance of a Metro style Firefox prototype in April 2012 before the Metro code made it into the Nightly channel The project had nine dedicated engineers and two product managers listed in its 29-person team roster. The decision means that Firefox will continue to be developed for the Windows desktop platform without the significant burden of building an additional version that would use the same rendering engine but run in the touch-friendly but significantly more constrained Windows Store (née Metro) environment, alongside other Windows 8 native apps. The team is solid and did good work, but shipping a 1.0 version, given the broader context we see for the Metro platform, would be a mistake.

After two years of struggling to build a hybrid Firefox for Windows 8, Mozilla has finally thrown in the towel.įirefox Vice President Johnathan Nightingale made the announcement today in a post titled “Metro,” on Mozilla’s Future releases blog.Įarlier this week, I asked our engineering leads and release managers to take the Windows Metro version of Firefox off the trains.