Firefox woes

So I was reading this article today, which told of Firefox's monumental task of trying to gain marketshare from Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which comes pre-installed on Windows computers (Aritcle Here). An interesting problem was brought up by the founder of Firefox, in which she says Firefox must convince users to make a choice to go with Firefox over and over, every time a user gets a new computer. It was an interesting problem, but when I thought, ok, what if Microsoft stopped packaging IE with Windows....and a funny problem arises. While IE is forcing people to use IE when they get a new computer, it's acutally this very piece of software which allows users to "choose" Firefox. If IE didn't come with Windows, how would Firefox get users to install their software? I agree there is an advantage being given to IE due to the packaging with Windows, but you have to give Microsoft some credit. If this weren't the case, I wonder how much longer it would have taken for the internet to have gotten to the mass usage we see today. If a consumer had to buy or FTP a browser, just think of how much that would have slowed down internet usage adoption. Anyways, I just thought it was a funny problem, in that without IE, it would have been difficult for Firefox to be downloaded to being with, yet they are complaining about the monopoly Microsoft has created. Perhaps I'm missing something else too....how is Firefox making money? Are they a non-profit? If so, why do they care about the "Monopoly" on browsers. For that matter, how are ANY companies making money on browsers?