I remember using IE when they started bundling it with Windows and it was a FAR better experience with instant loading instead of waiting Netscape to load. Ever

I remember using IE when they started bundling it with Windows and it was a FAR better experience with instant loading instead of waiting Netscape to load. Everyone likes to blame the bundling of IE as causing Netscape to fail, but in reality, the initial versions of IE just worked better. Netscape's engineers knew this, and probably realized they had to rewrite to compete with the speed of IE. Interestingly enough, these days hardly anyone I know uses IE or Safari even though both are bundled with their respective operating systems. Most of these folks install Chrome because they are familiar with it and it doesn't impose any significant performance penalty. Ideally, Netscape should have been optimizing their browser for speed all along. But since they were the only kid on the block for so long, they became numb to how slow things had gotten. It took IE coming in with a much better experience to shake them into action. Unfortunately, by then it was too late for Netscape as a business to recover.