Streaming audio worked flawlessly on my 56k modem, and I haven't heard a skip or stop yet. All of the options work quite well, and the Auction Manager worked flawlessly with the sites I tested it with, which included eBay, Amazon and Yahoo. Favorites - Holds and organizes your bookmarks 2. Search - Features a multiple internet searching options 4. Scrapbook - Holds any kind of multimedia you want to keep 5.
Graphics render much faster, everything is more responsive and pages overall load much quicker.
It seemed fast, but maybe a bit slower than Netscape Navigator I thought. It could be different on a faster connection such as a cable modem, or DSL line, but for a dial up connection they were about the same. Overall, Netscape still is a more responsive, faster web browser when it comes to plain surfing the net however. I did run into several lags as I surfed the web using IE 5. As I was noticing the speed increase since the last version I had to wonder how much RAM it was taking up.