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Firefox defeated IE which was bundled with Windows at the time.

Chrome continues to defeat everyone, including Edge which is bundled with Windows.

Firefox's reason for irrelevance today has nothing to do with whether its competitors are bundled with operating systems.

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Chrome is, and majorly was, pushed by Google websites. Using one near monopoly to create another.

Also, Firefox never defeated Internet Explorer. You are misremembering that. Firefox once made impressive market gains despite the anticompetitive competitor bundling. That doesn't mean it's feasible to keep doing it.

IE team was disbanded and had no release for 5 years.

IE also never had mountains of supposedly techy people instructing naive users to use Chrome because "it's faster", which was only true in the very beginning, as if saving 200ms per page load is worth putting Google in full control of the internet.

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