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Firefox for Windows 8 is dead, states low user adoption

We've covered the journey of Firefox for Windows 8 since the project was appear in late 2022. Our first real wait at the app came in February 2022 when we took the app for a spin and did a easily-on of Firefox for Windows 8. This by August the squad at Mozilla announced that Firefox for Windows viii would come out in December.

Nosotros later on learned that the release was pushed back to 2022. A agglomeration of updates later and the app finally went into open beta last month. Turns out that was all for nothing. Mozilla is killing Firefox for Windows 8.

In a blog mail today, Firefox states that development for a mod Windows 8 app has stopped and won't exist resumed anytime soon. The company cites depression user adoption. Hither's what Johnathan Nightingale, vice president of Firefox, said in the blog post:

"In the months since, as the squad built and tested and refined the production, we've been watching Metro's adoption. From what we tin run across, it'southward pretty flat. On any given day we have, for instance, millions of people testing pre-release versions of Firefox desktop, but we've never seen more than thousand active daily users in the Metro environment."

The team at Firefox was optimistic with the massive ecosystem that would be nowadays in Windows 8. At least that'southward what the team at Firefox saw when they started working on the Windows 8 app in belatedly 2022. Sadly though, they never saw the adoption they were looking for. Some more words from the Firefox vice president:

"Instead, we pull information technology. This opens up the risk that Metro might take off tomorrow and we'd have to scramble to take hold of dorsum upward, but that's a ameliorate risk for u.s. to take than the real costs of investment in a platform our users take shown little sign of adopting."

Pitiful to see Firefox for Windows 8 become? Sound off below.

Source: Firefox Via: TechCrunch

Thanks for the tip Laura!

Source: https://www.windowscentral.com/firefox-windows-8-dead-company-cites-low-user-adoption

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