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"IE6 never had any meaningful competition until Firefox came along, then lo and behold, all browsers started getting a lot better a lot quicker." You don't thi

"IE6 never had any meaningful competition until Firefox came along, then lo and behold, all browsers started getting a lot better a lot quicker." You don't think it had anything to do with the introduction of Safari and Webkit, more than a year earlier? Also, the last version of Internet Explorer for Mac was v5.2, which by 2004 was getting pretty long in the tooth. Many Mac users had already switched from IE to other browsers by the time Firefox was released (let alone when it was halfway decent).

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You don't think it had anything to do with the introduction of Safari and Webkit, more than a year earlier? Safari was utterly irrelevant until the late 2000s, where it only gained relevance through the iOS devices. It did nothing to spur movement. Further from a history perspective, while Safari might have preceded the coining of the Firefox brand, Firefox was an offshoot of the Mozilla Suite (effectively splitting the browser out of the suite) with a history going back to 1998.