Worst of all though, it gains much of its speed by caching web pages you've already been to and relentlessly presenting you with these old pages when you click a link to a regularly visited location. This can be a mammoth pain when browsing sites like a forum where pages are changing virtually from one minute to the next. You must reload every time in order to get the current version of the forum pages to appear. Even so, Opera is so fast and light on its feet that it is sometimes worth it to put up with the hassle. Now though, with Netscape's recent release of version 4.74, with whatever voodoo they've done to it, it is, incredibly, almost as fast as Opera.
Opera still holds an advantage, but only by a tiny margin.
Netscape has improved their product in this one area by an astounding margin. I was absolutely floored when I updated my Netscape installation to version 4.74 from 4.73 on The Ol' Turd here. Note that I used the base install of Netscape, with as few bells and whistles installed as possible, and I upgraded with the same base version, so the comparison on this machine is valid. There is a caveat though. I am fortunate enough to have fast Internet access.