Netscape 6 Browser: Mixed Bag But if Web-page designers are mostly pleased with Netscape 6, ordinary mortals are in for a broad array of
disappointments. The program is a memory glutton, hoarding 20 to 25 megabytes of RAM. (Abandon all
hope, ye with 32-megabyte PC's.) Its speed is fine once you're online, but it takes nearly a minute to start
up, even on fast Macs and Windows PC's — long enough for you to say, "I wish this browser were built
into the operating system" 20 times in a row.

Once Navigator is finally ready to show you some Web, you may be surprised to discover that several
popular features of the previous version, Navigator 4.7, have disappeared. The print-preview feature is gone,
as is the ability to drag a Web site's address-bar icon directly into the Bookmarks menu. You can no longer
copy or paste a Web address in the Address bar by right-clicking there, either. And you have to resize the
browser window every time you begin surfing; Navigator doesn't remember how you had it the last time you
ran the program.

The most alarming flaw, however, is that you can't highlight the entire Address bar with a single click. You
must highlight the current Web address by dragging the mouse over it each time you want to type a new
address, an oversight blatant enough to make you wonder exactly how much time the program's designers
actually tested Navigator by, say, browsing the Web.