Google didn't steal many Firefox users initially. They absorbed more new users in a rapidly growing market. They used to pay sites and downloads to install Chro

Google didn't steal many Firefox users initially. They absorbed more new users in a rapidly growing market. They used to pay sites and downloads to install Chrome alongside whatever the user actually wanted to install (sometimes done without the user consent) Later the network effects started going against Firefox but most people go by percentage of market and assume they were losing users long before they actually did.