In support of your comment, I think some are forgetting how horrible Netscape 6 actually was to use. (Or am I just getting old? It wasn't that long ago!) Compa

In support of your comment, I think some are forgetting how horrible Netscape 6 actually was to use. (Or am I just getting old? It wasn't that long ago!) Compared to earlier versions it was incredibly slow—even by the standards of the time—and crashed a bit more frequently. It took much longer to load or perform some common tasks. Sure, the rendering engine was better for many pages, but browser sniffers were still common, and (like now) weren't updated often enough, so bad versions of sites got served occasionally too. There were a host of reasons why Netscape 6 was bad from a user's perspective. Spolsky has it right when he says Netscape 6 was a piece of junk. Let's not allow time passing to permit us to remember it more fondly. Sure, future versions got better, but that was due to he creation of a new "corporate" memory. It took a while to get over having discarded so much learning.