An interesting note Firefox is basically Netscape with a few more bells and whistles. They both use the same source code.
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Mr. Schare of Microsoft does have one suggestion for those who cannot use the latest patches in Service Pack 2: buy a new personal computer. By the same reasoning, the security problems created by a car's broken door lock could be solved by buying an entirely new automobile. The analogy comes straight from Mr. Schare. "It's like buying a car," he said. "If you want to get the latest safety features, you have to buy the latest model."
I used Netscape until around 4.7. It got to be glutware and crashed constantly and was sending gobs of data back to Netscape.
I could load a page and it would crash. Load the same page in IE 4 and no problem.
I gave up on Netscape and went to IE. I then found Fastbrowser, which was one of the first tabbed browsers (using the IE engine) and had computer speak (good for letting the computer read aloud lengthy FR news articles).
I have been running FireFox some. Pluses include its tabbed browsing and the computer speak extension (called FoxyVoice). There are some webpage features that it doesn't support. Otherwise, it is pretty good.
Tabbed browsers are excellent for websites such as FR. I am surprised that MS is so far behind the curve on browser improvements.
That is just not true.
Check out the facts about the development of Firefox.