Upgrading Power Mac G3 from OS 8.5

I have an old Power Mac G3 that I purchased in 1999 along with the Adobe Creative Suite that was available then. What do I need to do to upgrade, so that, I can use my AOL internet dial-up without errors that do not support certain websites that I would like to visit and have better performance.
Power Mac G3   Mac OS 8.6 or Earlier  

I have never used AOL so I don't know what the interface is like. I believe many years ago you pretty much had to run what they provided but that has probably relaxed now. Perhaps Sha2sha can tell us how open the service is to using other software.
Sha2sha can probably do some upgrades that will facilitate running newer browsers, for example simply by doing the free upgrade to OS 8.6. Anything beyond that (e.g., installing OS 9) and you start to have to spend money and you have to decide whether it's time to just do a major jump.
There's lots and lots of discussions out there on pre-OSX browsers so I suggest, Sha2sha, that you read the forum on OS 9 usage for suggestions. What browser are you using now? I've tried a number of these. Some of these newer ones such as Netscape 7 are more modern and may give you added functionality (though I have found Netscape 7 to be very unhappy on my G3). By running the most modern browsers available for pre-OSX you can probably access most sites. Still, I found that when I needed to buy an airline ticket recently that I had to go to the library and use one of their computers because none of my browsers provided the features the website required. There's no solution to that other than running the newest browsers. You can get around it to some extent by having many browsers and trying them all on a particular website until you find one that works, but you will come across sites where no old browser will work and then you're stuck. I guess some people have had success with a browser called iCab which is still supported for OS9 (but I don't know about OS 8.5). I found it to crash too often for me to want to keep but others seem happy with it.
I am solidly in the old-mac OS9 school myself. If you're Mac savvy then you can find work-arounds for many of the OS9 limitations, but for about 2% of the things I need to do there's nothing except to use OSX, and that percentage will only increase.
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