For people talking about openness, walled gardens, etc. If Google at the time could figure out how much their marketing assisted Firefox adoption, and saw that

For people talking about openness, walled gardens, etc. If Google at the time could figure out how much their marketing assisted Firefox adoption, and saw that the marketing was a huge if not main driver, does it not make complete sense for them to just write their own browser and market that? If I basically had a guarantee that some product would see huge adoption if it only existed, I would start working on that in a heartbeat.