{"id":35845,"date":"2013-02-14T17:22:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T15:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=35845"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:37:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:37:28","slug":"mozilla-releases-nightly-build-of-firefox-for-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mozilla-releases-nightly-build-of-firefox-for-windows-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla releases Nightly build of Firefox for Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">The first <a title=\"firefox for windows 8\" href=\"http:\/\/firefox-windows-8.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Firefox for Windows 8<\/strong><\/a> Nightly Build is n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35846 alignright\" title=\"Firefox\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/02\/firefox-nightly-windows8-softonic_6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/>ow available for testing. Mozilla has released this unfinished version of their popular browser optimized for tablets. It looks surprisingly similar to Internet Explorer, but doesn&#8217;t have any unique touch gestures for navigation yet.<\/p>\n<p>The new Firefox for Windows 8 is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/nightly.mozilla.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Firefox Nightly builds<\/a> channel, and is downloaded automatically as part of the latest update. If you have Windows 8, once installed a Modern UI Firefox tile should appear on your desktop. To run it, you have to have Firefox Nightly set as your default browser.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still pretty basic, so really only suitable for testing or if you&#8217;re curious to see the future of the browser. Firefox Sync does work, so you&#8217;ll get your bookmarks and passwords.<\/p>\n<p>Now Firefox for Windows 8 is in the Nightly Builds cycle, we can expect it to\u00a0 migrate to the Aurora channel in about six weeks, and be possibly ready for general release in or June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Firefox for Windows 8 Nightly Build is now available for testing. Mozilla has released this unfinished version of their popular browser optimized for tablets. It looks surprisingly similar to Internet Explorer, but doesn&#8217;t have any unique touch gestures for navigation yet. The new Firefox for Windows 8 is part of the Firefox Nightly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mozilla-releases-nightly-build-of-firefox-for-windows-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mozilla releases Nightly build of Firefox for Windows 8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2564],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-35845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwindows-8"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333373,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35845\/revisions\/333373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35845"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=35845"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=35845"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=35845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}