Mozilla is bringing Firefox to Microsoft’s Windows retailer as we speak. Firefox is likely one of the first third-party alternate options accessible within the Microsoft Store, and it’s utilizing its personal Gecko browser engine as a substitute of Chromium alternate options like Opera or the numerous different alternate options that leverage Microsoft’s Edge webview.

Microsoft’s new open retailer insurance policies have lastly made it doable for third-party browsers like Firefox to seem within the Microsoft Store. While we haven’t seen Chrome seem but, Opera was fast to make sure its personal browser can also be listed within the retailer.

“Previously, if you were on Windows and wanted to use Firefox, you had to download it from the internet and go through a clunky process from Microsoft,” explains Mozilla. “Now that Microsoft has changed its Store policies, choosing Firefox as your desktop browser is even more seamless – and it comes with all the latest Firefox features.”

Firefox launching into the Microsoft Store comes simply months after Mozilla defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows. Mozilla has quietly made it simpler to change to Firefox on Windows, with a one-click course of that isn’t formally accessible for anybody apart from Microsoft. Mozilla seems to have reverse engineered Microsoft’s capability to set Edge because the default in Windows with a single click on, as a substitute of the multi-prompt course of that exists in Windows 10 as we speak.

Interestingly, this one-click course of doesn’t seem to work within the Microsoft Store model of Firefox. That means Mozilla both averted submitting its workaround model of Firefox or Microsoft rejected it from the Microsoft Store and the corporate was pressured to take away the default browser workaround.

Microsoft has made the method of setting the default browser even more durable in Windows 11, and Mozilla has been making an attempt to persuade Microsoft to enhance its default browser settings in Windows since its open letter to Microsoft in 2015.

Firefox is now available in the Microsoft Store for each Windows 10 and Windows 11.