14 DAY TRIAL // Mozilla has released the first public beta of Firefox for Windows on ARM after the company previously rolled out an early look at the browser back in 2018.
While it might seem like the project advances slowly, investing in an ARM64 browser wasn’t necessarily a priority given the rather poor adoption of Windows on ARM.
However, Microsoft and Google have both suggested that their Chromium-based browsers would run on Windows devices with Snapdragon chips, so Mozilla decided to build its very own flavor of Firefox to expand in this direction.
Despite being a beta, Firefox for Windows 10 ARM seems to be running quite smoothly, and more refinements would be added as the browser heads towards the final development stages.
Browsers, browsers, browsers
There’s a lot happening in the browser world these days, and most of the projects come from the same three large developers here, namely Microsoft, Google, and Mozilla.
After announcing that its browser would move from EdgeHTML to Chromium, Microsoft rolled out a preview of its new Microsoft Edge earlier this month, allowing users to try out the app on Windows 10. The new Edge will be available cross-platform, so it’ll also support older Windows and macOS.
Meanwhile, Google is also developing its very own Chrome version for Windows on ARM, and a few days ago, a developer managed to get the browser running on the platform. In its turn, this successful attempt allowed others to install Google Chrome on Windows phones already updated to Windows 10 on ARM.
There’s no ETA right now as to when Mozilla would release a stable version of its new Firefox browser, but given the application is already in an advanced development stage and everything’s working so smoothly, it shouldn’t take too long before an announcement in this regard is released.