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Citation needed. https://www.savetz.com/articles/nie11.html https://www.savetz.com/articles/nie11.html is a contemporaneous article that suggests the browsers were pretty equal in terms of stability and speed. The monopoly position Microsoft exploited in their OS to push IE and then business deals and mind share to solidify it by extending web standards in MS-only ways (eg activex) seems to really be the difference.