Submitted by: kirkland on Monday October 23rd, 2006 at 07:57 PM EST

Mozilla Corp. will launch the final of its Firefox 2.0 browser Tuesday, Oct. 24, the company said Monday.

The long-tested Firefox 2.0 -- which updated to Release Candidate 3 (RC3) -- last Tuesday, arrives hard on the heels of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. IE 7 went final on Wednesday.

Firefox 2.0 features anti-phishing alerts, session restore, spell checking, suggested searches, and several other enhancement and additions to version 1.5, the last major update to the open-source browser. According to the most recent statistics from Web metric firm Net Applications, Mozilla browsers accounted for 12.5 percent of the surfing market in September.

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