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The design work hasn't even started; this prototype is built with the same front-end code and theme as Firefox for Android. (Actually it's using a mish-mash of two different Android themes, because of a quirk in the way the prototype is built.)

The icons in the prototype were all designed for Android, and all will be replaced by real Windows/Metro icons in the final product.

[Usual discosure: I am a mobile Firefox developer.]

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That's good to know.

Is the front end code that is coming from Firefox for Android just for the windowing gui or is the rendering engine the same as well?

The rendering engine code is shared across all platforms (Android, Linux, Mac, Windows, etc.).

The "mobile" front-end code is currently used by Firefox for Android/Maemo/MeeGo. It's separate from the "desktop" front-end code used by Firefox on Windows/Mac/Linux.

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