“I vote for Linux with no GUI.”
I’m guessing you’re a geek. :)
But you’re right, that would do away with the java problems. Is there a vi based browser?
Well, I really should have said no desktop. Both Gnome and KDE have vulnerabilities that can be exploited by clever hackers.
But you can just run X and start a browser from the command line....with a non-privileged account, of course.
There are several console-based browsers (elinks comes to mind immediately).
If you want a browser in your editor, you'll probably want to be using emacs. :-)