An interesting report emerged this week, when Stat Counter announced that during the period of 23 March 2009 to 29 March 2009 Firefox 3 has surpassed their Internet Explorer 7 counterpart in terms of online users. Although this stat may not continue to be true in weeks to come, it does show us that Firefox is gaining ground, even with aggressive marketing from both Chrome and IE8.

In Quarter 1 of this year figures indicate that globally IE were still leaders in market penetration followed some distance behind by Mozilla.

Similarly these figures reflect almost the same market penetration in South Africa.

With the rollout of more web applications and Microsoft’s reluctance to embrace both the javascript race and CSS 3 it’s only a matter of time before IE’s percentage decreases.

Tags: Chrome, firefox, ie, Opera, web browser