989540 - "Windows 8 Touch" (switch to Metro) not appearing in Australis menu panel

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Metro Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[kpoirot]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140328030203

Steps to reproduce:

In desktop mode, click to make the Australis panel appear.


Actual results:

The Australis panel appears. No "windows 8 touch" button available, even when I try to customize the panel.


Expected results:

"windows 8 touch" button should be available either directly in the panel or in the customization panel.

Comment 1

[kpoirot]

It looks like this bug : 950986 ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=950986 )

For info, with the 23rd March release, the button appears.
I noticed this bug since the 25th March release.
I currently run the 28th March release (31.0a1).

I didn't try on other devices. But mine is a Surface Pro, on windows 8.1.

Comment 2

[Kamil Jozwiak [:kjozwiak]]

Hi Kpoirot,

Unfortunately the Firefox Metro project was cancelled about a week and a half ago and has been removed from all the channels (Nightly, Aurora and BETA).. You can read more about it in this blog post:

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/03/14/metro/

Comment 4

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

By the way, although Mozilla is no longer shipping official Metro-enabled builds or funding the development of the Metro browser, we are working on setting up an unofficial development branch for any contributors who want to keep the project going (bug 982034).