Mozilla Gives Up on Metro Firefox

This has been a really big story across the web and can be taken one of two ways. 
1) Users of Windows 8 hate beta software and/or dislike Firefox,
2) Users of Firefox hate Windows 8 and find the desktop environment more productive.

Either way Mozilla has decided to stop production of the Modern UI version of Firefox so their money can be better spent on something the Internet public may actually use.

Mozilla, maker of the Firefox Web browser, announced on Friday that it was pulling the plug on its development of Firefox for Metro—a version of the popular browser built specifically for Windows 8’s touch-screen user interface. The reason? Nobody was using the beta version of the software, which Mozilla had been working on since 2012.

Instead, developers and public users are sticking with the classic Windows desktop version of Firefox.

The article goes on to cite that millions of people have been testing pre-release versions of the Firefox browser but less than 1,000 daily users are doing so in the Metro environment.  Those are some startling numbers.  

If you check out the WSJ article be sure to read the part about "other" browsers for Modern UI.

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