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I don't recall precisely when but I do recall Netscape taking FOREVER to load, like you'd click on it and it'd take 10 seconds or more (that's what it felt like
by dageshi 8y ago
I don't recall precisely when but I do recall Netscape taking FOREVER to load, like you'd click on it and it'd take 10 seconds or more (that's what it felt like) to load. It'd sit on a splash screen telling you all the crap it was loading. IE at the time just loaded like a flash in comparison.
That was ultimately why I recall switching to IE at the time, nowadays there's no browser with that level of annoyance I don't think.
- megablast 8y agoWell sure, IE loaded all that crap when windows loaded.
- Sharlin 8y agoYeah. It was already running the whole time, heck, it was the very shell of the OS. Opening an IE window was literally no different from opening a new (filesystem) Explorer window. Hence the decade-long antitrust battles.
- dageshi 8y agoNot really, there was a point where it loaded pretty snappily. I think they bundled a bunch of stuff like email client e.t.c. and it was busy loading that stuff along with the browser. That's my recollection anyway.
- MiddleEndian 8y agoEven on Mac OS back then, IE was the better faster option of the two. Obviously it got left in the dust afterwards.
- icedchai 8y agoYeah, I recall that, too. I think it's when they transitioned from "Navigator" (web browser only) to "Communicator" which bundled a lot of other crap in: mail, news, and I forget what else. Netscape 3.x and earlier was pretty light weight. I remember running Netscape 0.9something on my original linux desktop with 8 megs of RAM!