If you'll read what I wrote more carefully, you'll notice that I didn't say Firefox dethroned Microsoft. What I wrote was that Mozilla dethroned Microsoft's br

If you'll read what I wrote more carefully, you'll notice that I didn't say Firefox dethroned Microsoft. What I wrote was that Mozilla dethroned Microsoft's browser monopoly. There's a significant difference. To your mostly off-topic point, I'll note that it was actually that toppling that made Chrome possible. Back in the day, the Firefox team included many the guys that would later go on to start Chrome. A couple years earlier Mozilla's team also included the guys that started Safari -- which, you'll remember, emulated Mozilla's rendering and asked for Gecko content in its UA. The other browser back then, Opera, took a different rout and emulated IE user agents and tried tackle most of the IE DOM in both core code and client JS hacks. Look where they are. Apple said "like Gecko" in Webkit's user agent and look how that turned out. That Safari and then Chrome could ship and most sites "just worked" for most users is not some accident. Google did some great work with Search back in those days, but they absolutely did not carve those Web standards paths or even pave those roads. That's what Mozilla spent 1998 to 2004 doing. We moved the Web to standards with our browser effort and made it possible for other players to come to market with a focus on features and performance confident that sites would mostly "just work." Mozilla isn't simply Firefox. When you confuse that as you did above, you miss the most important thing about Mozilla. We exist to improve online life for everyone, not just people using Mozilla products.