The release of Firefox 3 has further heated the competition with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. But as a gesture of goodwill, the IE team sent a congratulatory cake to the Firefox team.

Here is the fresh Big-E cake saying “Congratulations on Shipping – Love, the IE Team” (Oops they forgot to mention Firefox!)

The IE team gifted a cake previously also when Firefox 2 was released (the “e” is still in the fridge!)

Is IE willing to let Firefox eat its market share? Here are the April 2008 web browser statistics which show that IE7 – 24.9%, IE6 – 28.9%, IE5 – 1.0%, Firefox 39.1% …