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Six years after Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer defeated Netscape Navigator in the signature fight of the online age, the non-profit Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday will release Firefox 1.0, a free browser based on Netscape’s technology. Earlier editions of Firefox attracted millions of users fed up with the viruses and spyware that increasingly exploit Internet Explorer’s flaws to infect computers.