So, for a day-to-day browser, you have only two options: Firefox based and Chrome based. One advantage of these niche browsers is that they don't spy on you, but what I've learned from trying probably all of them is that, in the end, addons are essential - especially uMatrix is irreplaceable. Many of its features can be replaced by, again, addons. Qutebrowser is a keyboard controlled browser that recently added per-domain settings, but they are inferior to uMatrix. Otter Browser is a promising project with a very nice UI, but has no addon support (so far, though it's planned). Midori has everything you'd expect from a modern web browser and even includes in-built functionality to replace some of the common addons, but it's not enough. Surf is a graphical web browser that has image and Javascript support, but no tabs or an actual user interface. I could mention many other browsers here. Maximum of 256 colors, no images, little or no Javascript support, limited CSS support, no loading of non-HTML content such as videos (but can load externally), and no addons make these unsuitable for modern day browsing. Actually, elinks supports features that are somehow missing in "modern" web browsers (such as editing cookies, custom stylesheets or keybinding), but in the end, they can all be got back through addons. The basic terminal browser - links, w3m, Lynx, elinks - can still be used today to display websites only in text. What is the point of a web browser? Originally, it was to be able to read HTML documents, but since then, the Web has changed massively, and modern browsers need to satisfy more demands.
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