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		lurk2 on March 13, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google Your ratios are correct but your numbers are off. Mozilla peaked at around 35% of market share and is now around 3%.

Retric on March 13, 2025 [–]

You’re not wrong, but people get this mixed up because Firefox was a continuation of Netscape which did have a 90+% market share in 95. Mozilla however is a completely independent entity that continued to work on an open sourced browser created by a different entity.

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