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Firefox became popular because IE was already pretty bad and infested with malware (anyone else remember “Cool Web Search?)

• LocalH 7y ago
  IE3/4 was pretty good. It wasn't until IE5 that it started to stagnate and rot.
• kevingadd 7y ago
  At that point in time literally nothing would have stopped bad actors from shipping malicious Firefox extensions. IE only had that problem because it was popular.