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Firefox Metro hits Windows 8 with a very early, very buggy beta

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Meet the new Firefox, more Metro-y than the old Firefox.

Microsoft may have told app developers “Don’t call it Metro,” but the latest version of Mozilla’s browser for Windows 8 is called the “Firefox Metro Preview.” The name is fitting in all senses.

It’s fitting because Mozilla has adopted the used-to-be-called-Metro design style with an attractive overhaul of the browser’s user interface. This is something Google did not do with Chrome. While there is a version of Chrome for Metro, it looks almost exactly like the desktop version, for better or worse.

The name “Firefox Metro Preview” is also fitting because “preview,” if anything, is a polite word for this early state of the application. While both Microsoft and Google have Metro-style browsers in functional shape, Mozilla’s current schedule will keep the Metro version of its browser in beta for some time after the Windows 8 release on Oct. 26.

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Metro (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Metro  —  I don’t think there’s any hyperbole in Microsoft’s claim that this is “Windows Reimagined”.  But it’s not so much that Windows 8 is Windows reimagined, but Metro that is Windows reimagined.  It’s truly a whole new concept in how a computer interface should look and work.

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Security and Technology Leaders Unite as Annual SecureWorld Expo Makes Its Way to Metro … – Associated Content

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decision makers and other professionals to discuss the most pressing security issues in the digital age of business and government. Information is a vital asset for just about every organization in today’s computer-driven world. It is the key to both …
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Metro Pulls Plug On Computers After Indecent Discovery – WTVF

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Hundreds of computers once open to the public are offline after what someone found hiding in a few. A Metro IT worker discovered inappropriate material on some Parks and Recreations computers

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