Firefox for Windows 8 Touch Beta available for users

Firefox for Windows 8 Touch Beta available for users, boasting exquisite touch-friendly features

Mozilla, has recently unveiled the Firefox for Windows 8 Touch, which is currently available only in its beta version. The version is aimed at presenting users with a touch-friendly browser UI, that is now been made available for users to download and even test the same.

Firefox for Windows 8 Touch Beta has been designed for Windows 8 Modern UI devised by Microsoft. Features include a new-tile based start screen and a single tap access to most leading websites, history and bookmarks on the browser. Users can also continue to use the Firefox Awesome bar, which is a popular search and navigation bar, which gives autoresults categorized on bookmarks, history and search data.

Also, with the Firefox for Windows 8 Touch Beta other touch-based gesture features include one-touch swipe transition and a pinch to zoom functionality. One of the chief features that this beta version packs is the freedom to users to decide that whether they wish to view an app in a full screen mode or as a snapped version on the narrow region of the screen. Also, it gives freedom to make the app fill the screen space, which is remaining and has not been occupied by the app in the snapped mode.

In addition, there’s the Visual Navigation feature that helps users see big-sized tiles present on the start screen only, this can help users in experiencing ease that comes with an auto-complete capability that can assist in faster operations. The manufacturers recommend users to use Firefox for Windows 8 Touch Beta page as the default browser, before testing the same on their machine.

Another discussed feature is Windows Share integration that gives users the freedom to share content or web pages easily to all the social networks that have been installed. Downloading this version is pretty easy and can be done from the official Firefox website.

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