http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 66&t=35281
Chromium is a good browsing solution and the webkit engine is quite fast at rendering when it is already running. But I can not stand the very long start up time of the everything but the kitchen sink approach.
So for my quick browsing needs on the pi:
web
A mini web browser build on libwebkitgtk.
Featuring: uri text entry, new window on shift click, ... and ... nothing else!

(I forgot about the startup time of less than a second on my pi)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAbQhrNmX-s
(very low quality video: web vs. chromium)