Mozilla has lifted the lid on its Firefox Metro browser for Windows 8. The new browser has been created completely from scratch for Microsoft’s upcoming operating system.
And if you’re running a developer-optimised RTM version of Windows 8 on your PC, you can get your hands on an early build of Firefox right now.
If you work in the kind of office that gives you about as much freedom on your computer as the average sex offender, you’ll know the pains involved in having to run on an outdated web browser. Struggle no more: you can now run any browser without having to install it first. Read more
Mozilla’s Firefox, amid reports of a tumbling web browser chart position, may be about to add a new string to its bow by focusing on online gaming. The company has just added an API to allow gamepads to work in-browser, so is it about to change tact completely? Read more
Mozilla is hard at work on Firefox for Android Honeycomb and Ian Barlow, one of the design team working on the project, has revealed a sneak peek at what it’ll look like. Following on from Firefox for Android, the new version takes advantage of the extra screen real estate with tabs optimised for landscape and portrait. In landscape mode, the tabs stay put in a sidebar while in portrait they’re in a drop-down menu to save space.
While it’s still early days for the Firefox Android Honeycomb UI, it mimics the rest of the OS’s minimalist design while packing in familiar features. The Awesomebar makes the jump to tablets but with its tabs moved into a left hand column to leave more space for bookmarks and your history.
Click the headline to see the full gallery of Firefox for Android Honeycomb screens and check out Barlow’s Flickr page to see the stages of the design process. Mozilla hasn’t given any clues on when we can expect Firefox for Android Honeycomb to hit the Android Market.
Out TBC | £free | Mozilla/Ian Barlow
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Not a fan of Vatican Warlock Assassin/man-having-a-serious-mental-episode Charlie Sheen? If you want the web free of Charlie Sheen quotes, Charlie Sheen news and general Charlie Sheen stuff there is a solution. Greg Leuch and fffff.at have put together a Google Chrome/Firefox plugin called Tinted Sheen which will banish all mentions of Charlie Sheen from your browser.
If your were using it now the first sentence of this post would read like this: “Not a fan of Vatican Warlock Assassin/man-having-a-serious-mental-episode XXXXXXXX? If you want the web free of XXXXXXX quotes, XXXXXXX news and general XXXXXXX stuff there is a solution.” Isn’t that better? In fact, you could almost say it’s WINNING!
Out now | £free | Tinted Sheen (via Boing Boing)
Most people only think of Mozilla in the context of web browsers. Apparently the team is a little more ambitious than we previously suspected. Today, the first developer release of Mozilla’s new Web App Store was unveiled. As a direct competitor to Google’s Chrome Web App Store, the battle begins in 2011.
Mobile World Congress is drawing to a close. But in between the Android tablets, next-gen smartphones and bonkers concepts there’s a different level of lunacy. Read on, see our five favourite in-show moments from Mobile World Congress, and get a taste for the show beyond smartphones.
