Metro version of Firefox has begun to support screen keyboards

Since the release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, major browser vendors have begun to develop a special version of the browser for the Windows 8 dedicated Metro UI, and Firefox is one of the more active ones. . As early as this month, Firefox announced its first prototype of Firefox for Win8, and Brian Bondy, project manager for Firefox for Windows 8 Metro, announced the progress of the prototype version on his blog.

As of last week of March, they have made a version of Firefox can run, you can browse the web, the new tab page collection, and preservation of historical cache, adjust preferences and other operations.
And the latest news from Firefox officially shows that the development team has progressed quite smoothly in the past three weeks. Windows 8 version of Firefox has started to support the operating system's soft keyboard, which means that the browser can support only the touch screen. device.
The new version of Firefox also supports the site like IE10 & ldquo; paste & rdquo; In the startup screen, you can open the target page with a simple click. The development team is currently focusing on Windows 8 touch events and gesture support and making it compatible with W3C DOM touch events.
Firefox Metro Edition is being developed at the speed of the weekly milestone, and improvements to the user interface are continuing. It is expected that the next step will be to change the tab bar and address bar to make it more suitable for Metro style.
Why do major browser vendors pay so much attention to the browser of the Metro interface? For the browser, if it can perform well under the Windows 8 Metro interface, the user will continue to use it as the preferred browser under the Metro interface; if the Metro interface is not supported, the user will turn to other products for a long time. It is possible that even the traditional desktop version will be discarded, which will eventually lead to a decline in market share, which is the last thing developers want to see.