Luakit
For quite some time, I didn't see how the micro-browser jumanji could ever be replaced as my top web browser. However, over the last few days, I've very quickly fallen in love with a browser called luakit. Luakit, as you might guess, is basically a set of Lua configuration options layered on top of surf and webkit. With the newest webkit (1.4.1-1 at the time of this writing), this (and jumanji) flies through the internet.
If you're not familiar with either (and I'd assume you're not, currently), both are very small browsers (micro-browsers) with vim-styled controls (a la vimperator or pentadactyl). However, the nice thing about these micro-browsers is just that: they are TINY. Luakit comes in at 600K and jumanji is a microscopic 120K. Compare that with Firefox at around 2M and Chrome-dev at 100M!
If you wish to try either of these astonishing browsers, they are both in the AUR (Arch User Repository), and I'm sure you can grab the source yourself (they both have git repositories). I'm not sure about running either on Windows.
On a semi-related note: I would highly suggest installing and configuring Privoxy. Privoxy is a content-filtering proxy daemon. My personal use for it is blocking ads. If you're familiar with AdBlock, it's similar to that except that it works on a system-wide level. Pretty much anything that can connect to a proxy can be ad-free. Also, since it works as a proxy, it allows for some serious versatility. You can run it on just your client machine and just route your browser to the proxy "localhost:8118" (or whatever your settings entail). This also means you can run it on a server you may have (or even router, if you feel like it!).
