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You asserted that it was really Mozilla that set up IE's downfall, and that's what my dissent is about.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
Mozilla/Netscape hovered around 20-30% throughout the 2000s. I.E. was the clear winner without any danger of losing its throne until Chrome came along.
Being a steady competitor != destroy. Chrome and the Google suite is what upended the lopsided browser war.
You're arguing with me (for some reason) that what I said is false. It is not. If you want to talk about impact on MS's monopoly, you could be correct over time, but that's decades. Not what my original comment was about.
Mozilla 100% setup the downfall of IE and OE because they made a case that it could done, and also sued Microsoft in court over the Monopoly. Chrome still was years away from showing up on the scene when this all happened.