Win98 was a turd. Even SE crashed a lot. No memory protection. No daemons to mount zillions of remote drives or USB devices with GVFS/Kio.
Guess why NT based OSes used far more memory.
>Firefox - SJW_crap = better,smaller,faster,securer. But SJW_crap became their primary objective so we're doomed...
IE+Active X+OLE+Windows 98 = malware haven. Firefox supports audio/video securely, and even WebGL support. And WASM. Yes, you could do that with Flash and a Pentium III with Street View, but your computer was an ad-ridden malware epidemic party.