(The Netscape source code -- released in part because Netscape was dying --if I recall ended up forming the basis of Firefox, so it's fair to speculate "what ifs" if the Microsoft anti-trust judgement was more swift.)
> BrowserChoice.eu was a website created in March 2010 as the result of the decision in the European Union Microsoft competition case. The case involved legal proceedings by the EU against Microsoft and found that, by including Internet Explorer (IE) with their market-dominant Windows operating system, Microsoft had used their dominance of the operating system market to also create a dominant market position in the web browser market.
I’m confused, what are you trying to say? Chrome didn’t exist until 2017?
I've never known whether European antitrust (or privacy) action against companies like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook has had significant global/US effect. Do you (or anyone else) know of a good source on this?
Regarding effects of BrowserChoice, Opera had some statistics: https://web.archive.org/web/20111209114445/http://my.opera.c...
Mozilla also reports how much they lost due to BrowserChoice not running for a while – BrowserChoice had almost doubled their overall download rate: http://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-lost-6-9-million-downlo...
This was part of why Chrome quickly rose after that. The other part was that Google became anticompetitive.