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What was the chance of FFx browser winning the browser race, when more than 95% computers already had IE pre-installed?

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  > What was the chance of FFx browser winning the browser
  > race, when more than 95% computers already had IE pre-
  > installed?

Pretty good, because IE development has stopped and the team deisbandled. The situation in mobile OS market is nothing like that.

Yes.

It wasn't so much that FF was good (although it was), but that IE sucked so unbelievably hard. The difference made the switch a given for anyone with a passing understanding of computers.

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