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> The decline of Firefox is because of one thing only - the enormous marketing and engineering clout of Google and their utterly ruthless, relentless, anti-competitive pushing of Chrome across Android and all their web properties and even through ads all over the world.

OK, so your answer is that world is super simple and comes down to a single variable explaining everything? Sorry but that does not sound very convincing to say the least.

There was a time where Firefox needed to be installed manually on Windows where IE was provided by default and it become the leading browser. Ask yourself why it's not the case anymore.



Tabs. IE6 did not have tabs, Firefox did. It really is that simple. Opera had tabs but it also had ads. No other browser was from a trusted source.

Chrome is good enough and from a trusted source.


IE7 also had tabs, yet Firefox still managed to gain marketshare.


Internet Explorer was an absolutely awful browser, in a time where word of mouth was enough to get people to change.

Google plastered Chrome ads everywhere to get on everyone's mind, and was good enough that you didn't need changing.


You forgot the tiny, not so important fact that Google Chrome was overall better than Firefox in responsiveness, speed and rendering for YEARS.




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