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Here's an issue: this doesn't blend in all that well with the Windows 8 environment. The tabs, for example, are rounded. It looks nice, but the whole idea of the Windows 8 interface is to do away with needless skeumorphism. Making browser tabs look like real-life folder tabs is just that. They're going the distance by making the buttons in Windows 8 style, Windows 8 style start page, touch features, etc. Why would they go with rounded tabs?

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It's certainly looking more "metro" than Chrome attempt so far. I kinda like that it's a bit of a fusion of both, still keeping some elements identifiable as Firefox.

Firefox tabs don't look native on any platform. For one reason or another it seems the developers aren't interested in doing so, or they'd have done something since it's more-or-less a regression since FF2 on linux and a longstanding issue elsewhere.

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