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Now that Firefox 14 is out, and Microsoft have announced the official general public release date
for Windows 8, there ought to at least be a public beta of Firefox for Metro available by now.
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DJGM wrote:Now that Firefox 14 is out, and Microsoft have announced the official general public release date
for Windows 8, there ought to at least be a public beta of Firefox for Metro available by now.

Or you could wait for it to be actually usable. And the official release date means they still have three months before it's needed.
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Work has slowly begun now , you can see all the bug numbers here
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It's been almost two months since the last post ... any usuable builds available?
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DJGM wrote:It's been almost two months since the last post ... any usuable builds available?

I think they're almost ready for a preview release. I think they've got the installers almost working.
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KWierso wrote:
DJGM wrote:It's been almost two months since the last post ... any usuable builds available?


I think they're almost ready for a preview release. I think they've got the installers almost working.


Sound promising. Are there any usable Metro/ModernUI builds available among the Nightlies though?
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No, it's all still in a separate branch at the moment.
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For some reason, that doesn't work for me. Does one need the final Windows 8 version instead of the release preview to get metro style browsers to work? I'm having the same issue with the dev version of Google Chrome as well.

Or is it something about upgrading? Do I need to start with a clean install?
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You have to set one to default and launch it from Metro in order to see the Metro version.
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I set all the defaults in the default programs control panel applet, but clicking the tile in metro just shoves me back to the desktop. Are you saying there is some way to override that?
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The steps to get the Metro Firefox running are:
1) Install the elm branch Nightly.
2) Set Nightly as the default for all of it's options in Control Panel
3) The tile in the start screen should change to a new icon, which launches Metro Firefox when clicked.

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That's the issue I'm having. The tile does not change despite giving Nightly all its defaults. This is the link, right?
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... taller.exe
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Yeah, that's right. Maybe it does depend on having the RTM Win8 installed...
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Okay, I asked around on IRC, and while no one has definitively said it requires RTM Win8, there's a few people there that say that they also can't get it to work on the release preview.
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