It's been several months since Mozilla launched
the first test version of its Metro UI version of its Firefox web browser made to run especially on Windows 8. This version was offered for people who used the Nightly test version but on a different development branch, called Elm.
Now it appears that the standard Nightly Firefox testers will finally get a chance to check out the Windows 8 Metro version of the browser.
In an update on his blog, Mozilla's Asa Dotzler stated:
Mozilla's Asa Dotzler said:
On Tuesday, our preliminary Metro Firefox development work arrived at mozilla-central, the source code repository that feeds the Firefox Nightly channel. This means that if you are on the Firefox Nightly channel and you have a Windows 8 device, your Wednesday Firefox update should deliver a Metro Firefox tile to the far right end of your Windows Start screen.