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It was always assumed that Mozilla's Firefox browser would one day overtake Microsoft's Internet Explorer in the global browser market, ending IE's reign that began when the Redmond software giant buried Netscape Navigator years ago.

But as it turns out, Google Chrome might have a better shot of overtaking IE, and at the rate things are going,...

Just a few years ago, Mozilla's Firefox browser was rising fast as the chief challenger to Microsoft's stubbornly dominant Internet Explorer.

Things change pretty fast in the world of Internet technology, however, and today Firefox's once bright future seems much less certain.

In 2008, Mozilla entered into a three-year partnership with Google. In exchange for remaining the default search engine on Firefox, Google hands over about 84% of Firefox's total revenue.

Well, it's 2011 now and, as ZDNet's Ed Bott points out, the status of that partnership is unclear....

OSTATIC: "If it seems like a far-fetched idea for Mozilla to consider expanding the Firefox browser's scope more in the direction of what an operating system does, just consider what Google has done with Chrome OS."

Mozilla ramps up schedule, targets June 21 to release the next update of its Firefox browser.

Netstat -vat: "There are a lot of bugs in Firefox 4. Mozilla this week updated the next gen Firefox browser to Beta 10, quashing no less than 506 bugs."

Linux Pro Magazine: "The Mozilla Project announced the alpha release of Fennec, the mobile version of their popular Firefox browser, for Android smartphones and the Nokia N900."

SkyNews: "Web users risk taking online freedom for granted, a senior boss from Mozilla warns on the fifth birthday of the Firefox browser."

Recent releases of the Firefox web browser have seen enormous download activity right out of the gate.

The pace at which Mozilla works can seem insane.

It was less than a month ago when the the company released Firefox 3.5.