Mass appeal of this product is a distant dream. Well as a tool for established and long term Web surfers it is fine. However, for those new to the Internet, it is much less user friendly than its all-powerful rival. Previous versions of Netscape had been criticized for having a painfully slow load time. This problem has only been addressed with a minimum of success.
Every browser has a piece of software called a rendering engine.
This reads HTML code and converts it into the Web page that you see on screen. As previous versions of Netscape had such an unreliable rendering engine it was completely reworked for the new version. The result is that Netscape 6.0 will render pages much more quickly. Unfortunately it takes a very long time to start up. We compared Netscape 6.0 with IE 5.5 and noticed that it took over twice as long load certain pages.