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What does Firefox Nightly mean? What does Firefox Metro Style mean?

rjharpt
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I do not know what Nightly refers to or what Metro Style refers to. I am using Windows 8 but at this time do not have a touch screen with my home computer. thanks

I do not know what Nightly refers to or what Metro Style refers to. I am using Windows 8 but at this time do not have a touch screen with my home computer. thanks

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Nightly is a future version of Firefox that is getting new code updates on a daily basis. Not stable for normal use.

Metro refers to the tile interface of the Windows 8 home screen, and related user interface changes to applications. I'm not sure on the status of Metro integration support in Firefox.

James
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Nightly is the name of one of four main development channels of Firefox.

The four are Release, Beta, Aurora and Nightly. Release has 26.0, Beta has 27.0b (beta 6 currently), Aurora has 28.0a2 and Nightly has 29.0a1.

Nightly and even Aurora gets checkins pretty much everyday so they get updates each of those days.

Matt Brubeck
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For more information about "Metro-style" Firefox for Windows 8, see How do I launch Firefox for Windows 8 Touch?

This is a new feature that is currently only in pre-release test versions of Firefox. If you are using the latest stable release, it does not have this feature included.