Internet Explorer was a good browser for a long time. I switched over to IE4 after something caused Netscape to immediately crash every time I started it.<p>I&#x27;d avoided IE previously on purely idealogical grounds, but I was impressed by how much faster it was compared to Netscape.<p>The rot set in after Microsoft effectively won the Browser war (of the time at least), and updates and adherence to standards became all too rare.