I wasn't previously a Netscape fan, but IE has been driving me insane recently, so I installed Netscape 7, which has cheered me up no end.
I had a relativly happy surfing experience with IE5 and uk2 as the ISP. I signed up with Freeserve, and installed IE6. I was forever hitting 'stop' and the 'refresh', as IE would grind to a halt, and pages would not load. pprune and ebay were forever causing this. I uninstalled IE6, which improved things. I was still regularly hitting stop/reload. When the page was downloading, it would grind to a halt, the globe going round in the top corner, and even if left for several minutes would not complete the page load.
Further to this, a lot of fonts were almost illegible(Probably a specific reason or setting).
Anyway, I downloaded and installed Netscape (45mins 56.6 modem, bare install). Netscape seems much faster, the fonts all show up correctly, and no stop/refresh problems. I prefer the way the pages load in Netscape, if something is slow or not loading one can see where/why.
Im sure there are a load of Netscape probs I'm not aware of, but for the time being a big thumbs up!
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System details: P200MMX, 80mb ram, Win98