{"id":57890,"date":"2014-01-02T23:37:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T21:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=57890"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:57:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:57:43","slug":"firefox-app-for-windows-8-delayed-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/firefox-app-for-windows-8-delayed-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox app for Windows 8 delayed again, aims for March release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Windows 8 Essential Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/essential-guide-to-windows-8\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows 8<\/a> users will have to wait just a bit longer to get their hands on <a title=\"Firefox news on Softonic\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/firefox\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mozilla Firefox<\/a> for the Windows Modern UI. Mozilla has <a title=\"Firefox for Windows 8 Modern UI delayed\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/firefox-for-windows-8-modern-ui-delayed\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">already pushed back<\/a> the release date once and is doing it again due to the myriad of bugs to be fixed before the app is stable enough. The company first announced its intention to create a Modern-UI app back in February 2012, almost two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Modern-UI version of Firefox will be launching with version 28 of the <a title=\"Firefox for desktop downloads\" href=\"http:\/\/en.softonic.com\/s\/firefox:windows-mac\/windows\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">desktop version<\/a> of Firefox. Previously, Mozilla expected to roll out the app with Firefox 27, the next version of Firefox for desktops.<\/p>\n<p>For those who can&#8217;t wait, Mozilla currently has a <a title=\"Mozilla releases Firefox Metro Preview for Windows 8\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/mozilla-releases-firefox-metro-preview-for-windows-8\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">beta version<\/a> of Firefox for Windows 8 Touch in the <a title=\"Firefox Aurora for Windows download\" href=\"http:\/\/firefox-aurora.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aurora<\/a> and <a title=\"Firefox Nightly for Windows download\" href=\"http:\/\/firefox-nightly.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nightly<\/a> channels of its desktop browser. Users will have to download and install the desktop version of an Aurora or Nightly build and set it as the default browser for the operating system. This will create a tile in the Modern UI interface.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"Mozilla Wiki\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox\/Metro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mozilla<\/a> | Via: <a title=\"Neowin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/modern-ui-firefox-for-windows-8-delayed-again-till-march\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neowin<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/dolphin-zero-android-release\">Dolphin Zero lets you privately browse the web<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/firefox-26-is-released-for-desktop-and-android\">Firefox 26 is released for desktop and Android<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/chrome-apps-could-be-coming-to-ios-and-android-early-next-year\">Chrome apps could be coming to iOS and Android early next year<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 8 users will have to wait just a bit longer to get their hands on Mozilla Firefox for the Windows Modern UI. Mozilla has already pushed back the release date once and is doing it again due to the myriad of bugs to be fixed before the app is stable enough. The company first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/firefox-app-for-windows-8-delayed-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Firefox app for Windows 8 delayed again, aims for March release&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":57898,"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-57890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwindows-8"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57890","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\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331593,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57890\/revisions\/331593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57890"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=57890"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=57890"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=57890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}