Netscape

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2009–2024), in 11 threads.

People raised many different problems with Netscape, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 11 complaints

Browser was horribly unreliable and slow on X, PCs and Macs2024-07-07
Text is unreadable until a slow background image loads, since colours match2024-01-01
Netscape was very slow to start, render pages and respond to the UI2023-12-04
Constant SSL error messages when visiting most HTTPS websites2022-09-12
Offline cache failed, so resizing the window re-downloaded pages over slow dialup2021-05-20
Re-downloads already cached files on window resize, making pages take 30-40 seconds2020-01-25
Browser takes 10+ seconds to launch, sitting on a splash screen2018-11-25
Netscape crashed so often it was nearly unusable2016-04-26
Double-clicking an HTML file launches a whole suite of unwanted apps, making it slow to load2012-11-09
Browser was slow to load and perform common tasks, and crashed more often2011-08-03
Browser felt unfinished and buggy; rendering bugs and inconsistencies never fixed2009-09-26