I preferred 3.0.3 SE.  The standard editions seemed more stable and faster than the gold editions, and I really didn&#x27;t need the extra functionality.  Unfortunately with the 4.0 series everything was folded into the Communicator suite.<p>One big problem a lot of people forget is how quickly the web was moving back then.  3.0 came out in mid-1996, and soon there were many sites that wouldn&#x27;t work with 2.0.  4.0 came out in mid-1997 (technically before 3.0.3), and by late 1998 I <i>had</i> to upgrade to the 4.0 series, because a lot of the web didn&#x27;t work in 3.0.<p>It was actually DoubleClick that made me switch to IE - they started serving Javascript that hung every version of Netscape, which broke a lot of the web.