Microsoft developed Windows 8 platform with a refreshing tile-based Metro style user interface. This innovative approach, however, was criticized for being confusing on traditional desktop computers. The absence of the legendary Start button in the Windows 8 platform further aggravated the decline of its sales. Yet with the release of Windows 8.1 update, which brings back the Start button, and provides an option to roll back to the traditional mode, users are readily migrating to the new platform.
Windows 8.1 offers support for a wide range of applications in the modern operating system, which was earlier tagged as low on apps support, and prominent app developers are on the run producing alluring programs for the platform. In the growing trend, Mozilla Corporation recently released a new touch-friendly version of Firefox web browser, Aurora 26, which is duly optimized for Windows 8. Mozilla Firefox help center has stated that the latest browser offers numerous extraordinary features intended to benefit users on the tiled interface.
“It has a tile-based Firefox Start experience and supports Firefox Sync, Windows 8 touch and swipe gestures, Snapped and Fill views, and Windows Share integration all delivered with a streamlined, modern, and beautiful interface,” Mozilla representatives said in a blog post. It is noted that the new Firefox Aurora 26 browser also comes with a shortcut tile that Windows 8 users can pin to the Start screen. Apart from that, advanced hardware accelerated video, superior 3D graphics with WebGL interface, and the innovative Asm.js technology designed to boost the speed of JavaScript programs, are some of the other striking features of the new web browser.
Mozilla Firefox help center also asserts that Firefox Aurora 26 supports running of video files encoded with H.264 codec, which they restricted until now. It is assumed that the move to support H.264 codec format in Aurora is due to its inclusion in the operating system. Speaking to the media on the release of Aurora 26, Mozilla delegates said, “Over the coming weeks, we will be almost exclusively focused on improving performance and responsiveness. This is still a preview and while most of the features are very nearly complete, we know there are bugs.”
Though Microsoft earlier stated that it would limit the features of third party web browsers on Windows 8, continuous pleads by the developers and growing user demands made the tech giant restructure its plans. Let us hope that the decision to allow third party web browsers in the modern platform helps Windows 8 gain some good revenue.
Windows 8.1 offers support for a wide range of applications in the modern operating system, which was earlier tagged as low on apps support, and prominent app developers are on the run producing alluring programs for the platform. In the growing trend, Mozilla Corporation recently released a new touch-friendly version of Firefox web browser, Aurora 26, which is duly optimized for Windows 8. Mozilla Firefox help center has stated that the latest browser offers numerous extraordinary features intended to benefit users on the tiled interface.
“It has a tile-based Firefox Start experience and supports Firefox Sync, Windows 8 touch and swipe gestures, Snapped and Fill views, and Windows Share integration all delivered with a streamlined, modern, and beautiful interface,” Mozilla representatives said in a blog post. It is noted that the new Firefox Aurora 26 browser also comes with a shortcut tile that Windows 8 users can pin to the Start screen. Apart from that, advanced hardware accelerated video, superior 3D graphics with WebGL interface, and the innovative Asm.js technology designed to boost the speed of JavaScript programs, are some of the other striking features of the new web browser.
Mozilla Firefox help center also asserts that Firefox Aurora 26 supports running of video files encoded with H.264 codec, which they restricted until now. It is assumed that the move to support H.264 codec format in Aurora is due to its inclusion in the operating system. Speaking to the media on the release of Aurora 26, Mozilla delegates said, “Over the coming weeks, we will be almost exclusively focused on improving performance and responsiveness. This is still a preview and while most of the features are very nearly complete, we know there are bugs.”
Though Microsoft earlier stated that it would limit the features of third party web browsers on Windows 8, continuous pleads by the developers and growing user demands made the tech giant restructure its plans. Let us hope that the decision to allow third party web browsers in the modern platform helps Windows 8 gain some good revenue.
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