Let me hastily add that I'm no expert on Netscape
or Mozilla -- I stick to IE, but am keeping an interested eye on Opera.
Way back when I started on the internet (this was before Noah's time, I think), under Win 3.1, Netscape was what came with my ISP's setup kit. I even discovered that with that 32-bit addon thing I can't remember the name of, I could happily access nearly anything Java-based on the net even though Java was theoretically impossible under 3.1.
I fairly early switched to IE when I discovered that there were a lot of sites I couldn't properly access with Netscape. In particular, I couldn't download anything from Microsoft, which made Windows Updates kinda tricky.
Ok, ok, now I'm rambling
and probably getting off-topic again. Humble apologies, and 30 self-inflicted lashes with a wet noodle, okay?