Mozilla has announced that it intends to develop a special browser for the Metro interface on Windows 8. Not sure how this will work. Will Microsoft actually make it available so development can be done, or will they try to insure that only IE will be usable on the new OS?
Remember, Metro is going to be designed to be a touch screen interface. So one can see where Microsoft will try to do what Apple did with the iPad, & only allow their own browser. Of course, this could possibly cause the European Union to get involved like they did with Windows 7. But why then didn't they go after Apple? Yes, the iMac supports Firefox & Chrome, but the iPad has a much larger inprint as far as sales, & the EU did nothing to them.
Mozilla needs to do something. Their market share has stagnated at around 20-25%. Chrome will pass Firefox within a year if it hasn't already. This despite the fox still being superior as far as extensions & memory usage.
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