Netscape
This is an area where the little things make the most difference. Since we are in a GUI environment (Lynx excepted, of course), the behavior of the point and click on hypertext links is identical across the three remaining programs. As well, these three applications have forward and backward buttons that allow a linear traversal of pages already visited. Netscape's niceties are most apparent when wanting to go back to some page already visited. There are two methods for accessing such a location.
Either of these methods allows for very quick access to sites visited previously.
Like Netscape, the following of links and forward/backward movement is quite simple to achieve with the point-and-click metaphor. And again, similar to Netscape, there is a history function that allows you to see the previously viewed URLs.
Lynx is a little less elegant when it comes to general navigation. Since it does not operate in a graphical environment, it must rely on keyboard input for navigation. If a page contains a large number of hypertext links, it can become quite cumbersome to reach the bottom ones, since they must all be scrolled through. For example, on an HTML periodic table, one would have to scroll through at least 55 elements to get tellurium! In addition, the text interface limits random-access through the navigation history. It's this kind of situation that the true shortfalls of the interface become most clear.
Once again, we have the common bond between GUI and ease of hypertext navigation. However, OmniWeb handles history a little differently. When history is chosen from the main window, a panel containing all visited sites appears. The user can then pick and choose from the list in order to revisit a desired site. This method is very easy in practical use, since the list is constantly updated, and can always be visible.