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Mozilla is making progress in its effort to bring Firefox to Windows 8′s new Metro environment. Firefox for Windows 8 was announced earlier this year and will support both the traditional desktop Windows environment and the new Metro interface designed for tablets and other touchscreen devices.
Mozilla’s Brian Bondy, a member of the team tasked with bringing Firefox to Metro, reports that the browser is up and running. "You can navigate the web, create tabs, bookmark pages, build history, retain cache, adjust preferences, and more," writes Bondy in a blog post reporting Mozilla’s Metro progress.
Security vulnerabilities in the Java Development Kit and Java Runtime Environment that were patched in a February release pose such a security risk to browser users that the Mozilla Foundation has added older versions of the Java plugin to Firefox’s 
Mozilla has now officially introduced the Firefox 7.0 browser for desktops (Windows, Mac OS, Linux) and mobiles (Android). The desktop release comes with improved memory handling which enables lower memory usage, while the mobile build offers enhanced functionality.
New versions of Adobe Flash Player and AIR will be arriving by October, Adobe announced in a press release today. Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 are intended to provide “console-like quality” to game developers on PC platforms and improve performance on Android phones, and will be accompanied by support in the Flash Builder and Flex development tools by the end of the year.
Futuremark today let loose the 1.02 version for 3DMark 11 which brings updated to both the benchmark's Bullet physics library and SystemInfo component so as to ensure compatibility with future processors, graphics cards and other components.
