Dennis:

Netscape 6 is very bloated and slow... [...]

The latest 6.x is a lot better.

well thats what ive been told. [...]

Untethered bungees are a good idea. ;-)

Try galeon (spelling?) its abit faster... or you could go for lynx if you realy want some speed ;)

Galeon is only faster if you run Gnome already. Otherwise skipstone, I think, or dillo if you really want speed, or w3m for text mode.