Windows 8 Metro Firefox

Summary

• This proposal depends on Microsoft providing the same capabilities for Firefox as it does for IE -- running at the Medium level integrity process that allows us the full use of the Win32 API and what we need from Metro, or a set of APIs that allow Mozilla to port Gecko to the WinRT. For the purposes of this feature proposal, I'm assuming we'll get the first and we won't have to port the bulk of Gecko and instead will use the win32 dlls from within Metro.

• Windows 8 is not complete and may change some or a lot between now and when it's released. We anticipate Beta in February and RTM sometime between June and the end of 2012.
• Phase 1 will be to build a proof-of-concept for Firefox in Win8 Metro targeting Fx14.

References

• Feature Wiki page
• Links with info
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Windows_8_Integration
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Windows_8_Integration

Use Cases

• TBD

Test Cases

• The test cases for this feature can be viewed [here].

Important Bugs

• Implementation bugs

Other Bugs

Not Tested

• TBD

Sign off Criteria

• All the test cases were executed.
• All the major bugs have been fixed.