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The Firefox developers at Mozilla sent a congratulations cake to Microsoft's Internet Explorer development team.

Mozilla Sends Internet Explorer Team a Firefox Cake (2012)

Microsoft famously sent the Firefox 3 development team in 2008. Now Firefox is returning the favor with a giant Firefox cake.

October 26, 2012 by Joe Michaels
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Back in 2006, a strange tradition started between Microsoft and Mozilla. Each time one of the companies released a new version of their web browsers, the other company would send the development team a congratulations cake. In 2008, we posted a photo of the Internet Explorer cake that Microsoft famously sent the Firefox 3 development team. Now Firefox is returning the favor with a Firefox cake.

Internet Explorer Cake
Mozilla employee al billings holds the internet explorer cake.

The Mozilla Team Sends Microsoft A Firefox Cake

Mozilla sent a large Firefox cake to congratulate Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team on the major release of Internet Explorer 10.

Firefox Cake

The Firefox cake was hand-delivered by Mozilla employee Matt Brubeck to Microsoft team’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. Also notice how the cake was signed: “Love Mozilla”.

Internet Explorer’s Decade Of Decline

It’s nice to see two tech rivals celebrating each other’s accomplishments. But it’s hard to believe that this tradition may continue much longer. The Browser Wars have not been kind to Microsoft. The bottom has almost fallen out of Internet Explorer’s market share of web browser users. When Firefox debuted in 2003, Internet Explorer had an 86% of share compared to Firefox’s 4%.

2003 Mozilla IE Netscape Opera
November 7.2 % 84.9 % 2.6 % 1.9 %
September 6.2 % 86.6 % 2.7 % 1.8 %
July 5.7 % 87.2 % 2.7 % 1.7 %
May 4.6 % 87.7 % 3.3 % 1.4 %
March 4.2 % 88.0 % 3.4 % 1.2 %
January 4.0 % 84.6 % 4.0 %

Source: W3 Schools

Almost a decade later, it’s clear that Internet Explorer’s share has been stripped away and gone to both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. While Opera and Apple’s Safari browsers continue to have small but loyal users, Google Chrome appears to be the real threat. Chrome has shown slow and steady growth this year at the expense of both Internet Explorer and Firefox.

2012 Chrome IE Firefox Safari Opera
December 46.9 % 14.7 % 31.1 % 4.2 % 2.1 %
November 46.3 % 15.1 % 31.2 % 4.4 % 2.0 %
October 44.9 % 16.1 % 31.8 % 4.3 % 2.0 %
September 44.1 % 16.4 % 32.2 % 4.2 % 2.1 %
August 43.7 % 16.2 % 32.8 % 4.0 % 2.2 %
July 42.9 % 16.3 % 33.7 % 3.9 % 2.1 %
June 41.7 % 16.7 % 34.4 % 4.1 % 2.2 %
May 39.3 % 18.1 % 35.2 % 4.3 % 2.2 %
April 38.3 % 18.3 % 35.8 % 4.5 % 2.3 %
March 37.3 % 18.9 % 36.3 % 4.4 % 2.3 %
February 36.3 % 19.5 % 37.1 % 4.5 % 2.3 %
January 35.3 % 20.1 % 37.2 % 4.3 % 2.4 %

Source: W3 Schools

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