Ah yes... I remember Netscape (or Nutscape, as we fondly called it, along with "Exploder...") and it was a pretty solid browser.

"Push Technology" pretty much is responsible for a lot of the "garbageware" that became today's de-facto standards. Microsnot were the masters of push technology; they put stuff there, and unless you know how to opt out via an "advanced" install, it was in your face, no matter what.

It was one of the reasons I bailed on the IT industry in the late 1990s...