Ars Technica is reporting that Firefox, Safari and Chrome saw an increase in browser market share during the month of March, while Internet Explorer and Opera saw a decrease in their market share during the same period.

Internet Explorer saw a drop of 0.62 percent points from 67.44 to 66.82 in March even though Microsoft released IE8 last month. Firefox jumped from 21.77 percent in February to 22.05 percent in March. Safari held its third place and moved from 8.02 percent to 8.23 percent. The fourth browser Chrome gained 0.08 percent points from 1.15 percent in Feb to 1.23 percent in March. The fifth ranked browser Opera lost market share like IE, its market share dropped from 0.71 to 0.70 percent.

Internet Explorer’s market share has been dropping for past two years and it looks like IE8 release won’t change anything either.  Firefox and Safari have been slowly gaining market share and they are now joined by Chrome.