I always downloaded the free version of Netscape from www.zdnet.com or www.news.com; only ever paid $4.95 shipping costs on the CD. They still charge for shipping the CD; the brower's been free for years, since MSIE overran them in market share years ago.
I still like the browser GUI and email client from Netscape, best. IE is so full of security issues, I'm afraid to use it. Plus, IE's stuff is so code-bloated and a memory hog, to boot.
The other issue I had with IE was their bookmark system: it automatically alphabetized everything, and I didn't want that. I have 17,000 bookmarks - inactive and active, and I put the frequently-used ones right up front. Since IE doesn't allow that, I use Netscape's browser.
Oh well, different strokes for different folks...
Then some communistic person started giving out a free browser :-)