I'm running win 98se. I have a dedicated phoneline. Am currently using IE, and sometimes the Yahoo browzer. I frequently go to a surf site and when there's a page with a load of pics, my computor freezes up and have to simulate "power failure" to turn it off. I connection?
Fwiw - I use Win98SE. I have Verizon DSL. I have used some old version of IE, Netscape ( I forget the ver number now ) and switched to Firefox some time ago. Use only Firefox now. ver 1.5.0.9. Have not tried the newer 2.0 version.
Win98, Verizon DSL, and Firefox work together.
I do have occasional freeze ups. Only when I open a LOT of tabs, and only on a couple sites. This site, for example, does not do it.
Under "Performance" right now, system resources is 69% free.
Maybe some of this is useful info for you.