Can I have Firefox open in Metro form from the Metro screen, and desktop form from the desktop?
I am running Windows 8.1 on a touchscreen device (Surface Pro 2), so I use both the Metro & desktop screens. I've been waiting for the Firefox Metro version while subsisting with IE for the last few months, and now Firefox Metro has been cancelled.
Currently, whenever I open Firefox, it sends the computer to the desktop which is jarring if you're Metro-ing. Now, I've discovered the way to switch between the desktop & the Metro version of Firefox when you are already IN Firefox, but that seems very much the wrong way round. I don't want to change interfaces through a programme/app, I want the programme/app to open in whatever interface I'm using at the time. So, is there a way that if I double click on the desktop icon, Firefox in desktop mode opens, but if I'm on the Metro interface & tap the Firefox app it will open in Metro mode?
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Hey,
Unfortunately, as you said in your post, Firefox Metro has been cancelled.
Sorry!
Curtis
Thanks for your reply. Understood, but why then can I still switch to 'Windows 8 Touch' mode which takes me to the Metro interface and changes Firefox to a Metro-like look? Is this not Firefox Metro by any other name, just a version that only allows you to switch between formats through a dropdown? Seems a bit weird...
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Hey,
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Thanks!
Curtis
Thanks for your rapid and helpful reply. Makes me want to stay with Firefox all the more. However, I don't think a screenshot would help, so let me try to explain it in another way.
Firefox can appear in two 'skins' - desktop & windows 8 touchscreen. You can change from one two the other by the menu option top-right of the window in desktop version and bottom-right in the Metro version. Similarly, Windows 8.1 has two 'skins' - desktop & Metro. When Firefox is set to desktop skin, it will open in the Windows desktop whatever app/icon I press, moving from the Metro interface if I touched that icon. When it is in Metro mode, it does the same i.e. if I'm on the desktop and double-click the icon it takes me to the Metro interface and opens in its Metro skin. If I could open it while on the Metro interface to the Metro skin, and from the desktop to the desktop skin, I would be so happy. Hope this makes it clearer. Also, I will include a pic of Firefox in Windows 8 touchscreen mode, with the option to go back to the desktop version, and vice versa. Maybe it'll help...
pic 1 - Metro, pic 2 - Desktop with the option to change to 'Windows 8 touchscreen' mode
