Is this really what happened? From memory it looked more like MS bundled their browser with the OS, and back in the day discoverability of software was practic

Is this really what happened? From memory it looked more like MS bundled their browser with the OS, and back in the day discoverability of software was practically zero, so MS just sort of won through inertia. Mozilla did start writing firebird (phoenix?) which then became firefox, but I think by then MS already had the de facto monopoly. I may be misremembering history there of course...