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You seem to have overlooked the whole "Firefox basically saved the world from an IE monoculture" thing that happened in the mid-2000s.


Safari was released in January of 2003. Soon after, Microsoft ceased developing Internet Explorer for Mac. Almost two years later, Firefox 1.0 was released, and it took quite some time after that for it to become a good browser. In the meanwhile, plenty of us had been using a Gecko based browser for years: Netscape.




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