2. When you tell Netscape to save a file to your hard-drive it makes sure that you get the information you need. You are able to quickly determine where you are downloading the file from, where you are saving the file on your hard-drive, how much of the file (size) has been downloaded, the total overall file size, the transfer rate of the download, the time left and the percentage completed. Here again, you are able to quickly decide whether it is important to continue downloading the file or not.
(Picture from Netscape Communicator 4.0pr1)
I.E. 4.0 tells you where a file is coming from (although it is in a "friendly" form instead of the actual address, bummer). As you will notice, we have information on how long until the file is done downloading (This obviously does not always work, I checked I.E. 4.01 and it had the same problem), how much of the file has been downloaded, where it is going and what the actual transfer rate is (I.E. 3.x did not give you this information). The main problem is you still do not know the actual U.R.L. that you are downloading from (as shown above, even in amended form). In addition, the programmers have left out an important piece of information in relation to the total size of the file that is being downloaded. As noted above, if you don't know the size of the item you are downloading you could be wasting your time on a big download that you might not want to wait for. Otherwise, this is an improvement over I.E. 3.x.
(Picture from Internet Explorer 4.0pp1)
