That's blatantly untrue.

Firefox won from IE. it successfully broke the IE monopoly and gained significant market share. Then, years later, chrome entered the stage and conquered both.

I don't know in which world you live, but in the world I live common people (that is, non computer nerds) all had Windows and all used Internet Explorer. A few had Firefox or Opera or MacOS, but they were a little minority.

Then came Chrome.

It definitely varied a great deal depending on where you were. There were entire countries with Firefox at 70-80% before Chrome got pushed, though.

there's a cool animation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4wWdmfOibY

Yes, Firefox usage peaked at about 20%: surely not negligible (didn't know anybody myself using it !). As for geographical distribution, I could only find this: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-2009... The data goes back up to 2009, which was quite a peak period for FF...

Sure FF has played an important role in the browsers war, but it hardly broke the monopoly, or at least it did not do it alone (Safari and Opera started to gain a significative share at the same time).

You can check a ton of stat sites... Firefox was around 30-40% <<global>> market share and growing fast, it was taking over from Internet Explorer.

Firefox was growing constantly before Chrome started taking over.

Those people using Firefox weren't a small minority, and they weren't techies only.

You're trying to rewrite history from your small bubble.

IE usage shrank from 90% to around 60% before Chrome even existed.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Browser_...