In a lengthy blog post today, released on a Friday evening in an effort to bury the story, Mozilla announced it was cancelling the Metro Firefox Project._ The company cited “low usage” and “limited resources.”_ Having tried out the Metro browser a couple times it was a terrible & buggy piece of software._ Also not mentioned in the blog post was that the project was wildly off schedule, like clockwork every few months I would write about how the project had been delayed again.__I used the first beta of Windows 8 in_2011 we’re now_almost quarter way through 2014._ Mozilla is clearly struggling to find its identity._ With their “limited resources” they seemed to manage to write an entire mobile operating system which has gained little traction as well._ Firefox is being overtaken by the popularity of Google Chrome, the very company the are dependent on their funding for._ In the mobile space third-party browsers are not hugely popular among mainstream consumers._ Which begs the question will Mozilla be relevant 10...

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