Internet explorer also added features at a pace others couldn't keep up with. Then came the lawsuit that threatened to break up the company over a free product

Internet explorer also added features at a pace others couldn't keep up with. Then came the lawsuit that threatened to break up the company over a free product. That's what made Microsoft stop work on internet explorer rather than the, 'we won!' narrative. By over-extending chrome, Google's exhausting the competition to extinction. Right now, only Firefox's remaining. Apple's decided to go at their own pace. Once Firefox dies, Google will go after chromium forks and start stop updating some key areas, turning them proprietory. Or better yet, packaging em to run on their own servers. It's what they did/are doing with android.