Mozilla stops development of Firefox for Windows 8

Windows 8 has too few users and Mozilla do not want to spend resources for this OS.

 

 

Mozilla has just released the beta version of Firefox for Windows 8 (optimized for Modern UI interface) last month, but if you're expecting complete version of this browser, you will be disappointed. Recently, Mozilla has officially announced that it would not continue to develop Firefox for OS anymore. Earlier this week, Vice President of Firefox Johnathan Nightingale has ordered technical team and the management department stopped issuing Firefox development for Windows 8.

 

 Explain to move on , Mozilla says that the company does not have the resources and scale to develop Firefox for too many platforms . Therefore, the company must conduct selective and decided to stop development of Firefox for Modern UI interface . According to Mozilla , Firefox for Windows 8 not help the company achieve its objectives , such as the way that Firefox for Android , Mac , Linux , and Windows ( the older version of Windows 8 ) do .
Mozilla said that Firefox Beta for the desktop , the company recorded a day to several million users use and testing , to give them feedback before the official release version . Also in the beta version of Firefox for Windows 8 , the number of users does not exceed the 1000 . Having too little means that users will have little feedback from actual testing process , leading to the risk of having Firefox bug continues as the official version . This makes it increasingly more companies take more resources to fix . Although Windows 8 users may regret , the decision is already made, and those who need one browser -friendly touch screen will have to switch to Chrome or use the default browser of Microsoft Internet Explorer .