A very small, very fast browser for Linux distributions is Dillo. It’s great on slow connections and pages load really fast.
Thank you! I had completely forgotten about it over the years and am now building Dillo 3.0.3. To give you an idea of how long it's been for me, my previous NEWS file has this as the most recent entry:
Nov 2000: Introduced a new design layer between the IO and the Dw. We'll try to focus on table rendering.