Microsoft stopped developing IE because they were under intense anti-trust scrutiny having been found guilty of anti-trust violations and bound by a tough consent decree that made them timid for the first time ever.
That minimal Firefox market progress was about a quarter of the entire Web, and enough to see the content of the Web so dramatically transformed over a decade (that even Safari claimed to be Gecko) to a standards based platform with minimal reverse engineering all the IE-isms and documenting those for others to follow, and in so doing opening the playing field for standards compliant browsers.
Your summary, presented as fact, is quite poor and I'm gonna assume you have no particular expertise here and were instead sharing some opinions you picked up rather than sharing any actual history from experience, right?
I was there, a part of almost all of this for 25 years now, so there's my authority. What's yours?
You might have been part of the same crowd generating conspiracy theories! I don't know. But those ideas were a very important part of developing the conviction based communities which promoted it (not a criticism). Firefox usage peaked at 32% apparently 2010 market share against the IE which only had minimal development since early 2000s. Chrome proper>2010 effectively defeated Firefox in two years of issue and became dominant after 3 years. Why so quick? for the conviction based community, Chrome won because of advertising, bundling, and variations of force not because it was fundamentally a nicer experience for end users.
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Microsoft stopped developing IE because they were under intense anti-trust scrutiny having been found guilty of anti-trust violations and bound by a tough consent decree that made them timid for the first time ever.
That minimal Firefox market progress was about a quarter of the entire Web, and enough to see the content of the Web so dramatically transformed over a decade (that even Safari claimed to be Gecko) to a standards based platform with minimal reverse engineering all the IE-isms and documenting those for others to follow, and in so doing opening the playing field for standards compliant browsers.
Your summary, presented as fact, is quite poor and I'm gonna assume you have no particular expertise here and were instead sharing some opinions you picked up rather than sharing any actual history from experience, right?
I was there, a part of almost all of this for 25 years now, so there's my authority. What's yours?
You might have been part of the same crowd generating conspiracy theories! I don't know. But those ideas were a very important part of developing the conviction based communities which promoted it (not a criticism). Firefox usage peaked at 32% apparently 2010 market share against the IE which only had minimal development since early 2000s. Chrome proper>2010 effectively defeated Firefox in two years of issue and became dominant after 3 years. Why so quick? for the conviction based community, Chrome won because of advertising, bundling, and variations of force not because it was fundamentally a nicer experience for end users.