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then Open-Sourced Firefox came along to challenge, but it was inherited from the same Netscape codebase and made minimal market progress at the time

No, this is not correct: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/worldwid...

Firefox very much made market progress. Chrome didn't catch Firefox until 2011: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/worldwid...

Android was already on version 4 by that time, so of course they were catching up as they were becoming dominant in that space, and Chrome was the default browser installed on every device.

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