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		throwaway64 on May 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when... exactly zero windows applications that exist currently will run under metro/winRT, so by extension, windows ARM.

rbanffy on May 12, 2012 [–]

Oddly enough it seems Firefox is able to JIT on Metro/x86

makomk on May 13, 2012 | [–]

That's because they're not running under WinRT on x86. Apparently there's a special exemption in the x86 version of Windows 8 which allows the default web browser to provide a Metro interface even though it's still a Win32 application.

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