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Project: more of a browser "police action"
Plan:

Ok, I've gotten progressively more frustrated with Firefox, even with
the wonderful vimperator. Its performance is just staggeringly bad,
especially on non-Windows platforms. Originally I had looked at uzbl
http://uzbl.org, but the decision to use external shell and python
scripts to handle cookies and such was just too cracked out. Besides
performance concerns, it's likely a security nightmare, and way too much
fiddling to spend on a browser.

Surf http://surf.suckless.org/ is a very nice minimal browser --
extremely fast, small, and customizable via a dwm-style config.h. I
like surf a lot, but was missing the link hinting from vimperator, so
happily I found vimprobable http://www.yllr.net/vimprobable/. I use
vimprobable1. This behaves largely quite like firefox + vimperator, except
it's stupidly fast, configured through config.h and doesn't use tabs.

Since I use a tiling window manager, I don't really care
about having tabs. For those that do, you can use tabbed
http://tools.suckless.org/tabbed, which is a far more sensible
way to deal with tabbing applications. This works with uzbl, surf,
vimprobable, or anything else that supports the XEmbed protocol. All
3 browsers are based on webkit-gtk2, so they render more or less how
Safari/Chrome/whatever do.

For those that are a little less vimish and/or minimal, there's also
Arora, which is light, cross-platform, fairly featureful and based on
webkit-qt4. http://code.google.com/p/arora/ It has builtin adblocking,
password management, private browsing mode, and tabs. A nice drop-in for
your everyday Firefox user.

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