Officially released Firefox 2.0

The official version of Firefox 2.0 will be released today (October 24), just eight days after the version of Candidate for software is widely used.

The Mozilla Foundation spokesman for the nonprofit organization, the Mozilla Foundation, said the Release Candidate 3 (RC3) version released last Monday was rated good by users. This is the last step in a series of validation properties available for the official version. And today, the final version of Firefox 2.0 is finally released.

' RC3 is basically the same as the official version, ' the spokesman said. The official version will be named Firefox 2.0, free download on Mozilla's own website this afternoon. ' That was definitely planned '.

This news came just days after Microsoft released the first full upgrade of Internet Explorer - IE7 on Wednesday.

Earlier last week, Mike Schroepfer, deputy director of architecture at the Mozilla Foundation, said RC3 would become the official version of Firefox 2.0 ' if nothing had changed '.

The first Firefox Release Candidate was released on September 26, while the second Release Candidate was released on October 6. The reason Mozilla launched so many intermediaries to collect traditional input information and respond to the bug fixes from the user.

The latest study of worldwide web browser usage rates conducted by Netherlands-based OneStat.com shows that Mozilla's Firefox accounted for 11.49%, down 1.44% from July, when highest period of Firefox; Microsoft's Internet Explorer accounted for 85.85%, up 2.8%; Apple's Safari accounted for only 1.61%, down 0.23%.

In the US alone, Internet Explorer has 80.77% of users; while Firefox only 14.88%.

The official version of Firefox 2.0 adds a number of new components, including built-in anti-phishing controls, built-in XML and RSS feedback viewing capabilities, and a new inline grammar checker.

Readers interested in this new version can download it at FTP Server including versions for Windows, Linux and Macintosh.

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