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I'm Steven Shanklin and I've reported on browser and web technology for a decade for the last four months I've been working on a story about Firefox and the future of the organization that makes it Mozilla Firefox was once the browser beloved to root for the underdog that helped unleash a torrent of online innovation like Google Maps and Facebook but now Firefox has slipped into the shadow of Google Chrome which has hundreds of millions more users I spoke to every top executive and engineer this year about Mozilla's plan to reclaim its glory there's lots going on but the big event they're pinning their hopes on is the launch of Firefox 57 in November it's the culmination of more than a year of work to make the browser faster more secure and more useful if Firefox 57 succeeds it'll help Mozilla's mission to make the web a better place and not just google's private playground I've been using test versions of Firefox watching it improved this year and I'm impressed there's no way Mozilla can dethrone chrome but I do think it can win back enough of us to make Firefox an important part of the web again check out my story Firefox fights back and to look at one really important Mozilla project the programming language called rust I also have an upcoming Q&A with a Mozilla CEO Chris you you