But at least two other companies -- the Mozilla Foundation and Opera -- are enjoying success with their products.
And Dr Stamm is now a privacy advocate at the Mozilla Foundation, which oversees the development of the Firefox web browser.
The release includes faster start-up time, bookmarking and a smoother look to complex animations, the not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation says on its blog.
Chrome moved past Firefox, an offering by the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation that Google has helped support, according to the website analytics company StatCounter.
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's sole shareholder, the not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation, which Baker also runs.
Almost a year after it launched its Firefox browser, the California-based Mozilla Foundation estimates that more than 30 million desktops in Europe alone have Firefox installed.
"In the big companies, one of the biggest trends is that they are all starting to do the same things, " says Mitchell Baker, chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit that makes products like Firefox.
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Leingruber, who works for the Mozilla Foundation, says the idea for the ID project came to him when he was crossing the border from Canada to the U.S., and a customs official jokingly asked him for his Facebook name instead of his passport.
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Google is also working with Adobe and Mozilla, the foundation behind the open-source Firefox Web browser to rework how third party technologies, such as Flash, are built into browsers, Upson wrote.
The Mozilla Ignite Challenge is a multi-stage competition in which Mozilla and the National Science Foundation (NSF) invite designers, developers and everyday people to brainstorm and build applications for the faster, smarter Internet of the future.
Mozilla Europe founder and president Tristan Nitot told CNN that although the numbers were encouraging, the main aim of the foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to developing open source software, was to promote choice and innovation on the Internet.
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