I started hacking around with surf which is a small webkit-gtk based browser because the chrome build I was using was choking on my bunny server OneBunny.

github.com/patrickhaller/surf-ph has
window management instead of tabs (lower new windows while loading, raise another window when you close one),
Vi input mode by default, SURF_EMACS option via environment variable
Download via webkit, not wget
Functions / keybinding for new tabs^H^H^H^Hwindows, etc.