Hey, let’s all use DOS!

Well, we might as well. The people over at uzbl.org are working on a new browser. Will be be innovative like Chrome? Stable like Firefox? Glossy like Safari? Nah, people don't want that. People want to open up a Vim window just to visit a URL. And fuck graphics, nobody needs those. Clearly Uzbl is the only worthy browser choice. Let us dissect each and every one of their points from their home page:

very minimal graphical interface. You only see what you need

I don't know about you, but I "need" my nav buttons, my URL bar, my bookmarks, and my tabs. Cars don't really need stereos and air conditioning, let's just get rid of them because they are a distraction for my driving workflow.

what is not browsing, is not in uzbl. Things like url changing, loading/saving of bookmarks, saving history, downloads, ... are handled through external scripts that you write

Hmm, okay, let's again think about usability and productivity. Let's say I'm reading an article over at another blog and want to go back one page so I can see the index. I want you to read the following bullet points over, and tell ME what you find to be less of an asspain:

1. Click the back button
2. Open up Vim, write some code, save it, link it to the browser, see result.

Clearly #2 is the better option. We can't have back buttons because they take up too much space. In fact, a dedicated Vim window takes up LESS space than a toolbar!

controllable through various means such as fifo and socket files, stdin, keyboard and more

Wait... what? What's that you say? You've invented keyboard shortcuts. Great job! Nobody has ever heard of THOSE before! What innovation! I have a better idea for you, how's about just writing a Firefox plugin that allows for stdin (etc) communication? Oh right, you probably can't charge for the documentation on that.

advanced, customizable keyboard interface with support for modes, modkeys, multichars, variables (keywords) etc. (eg you can tweak the interface to be vim-like, emacs-like or any-other-program-like)

Ooh, a Vim-like browser! This is a very good idea, because almost 95% of the websites out there are plain text and do not contain images, or even links! Masturbating to Boxxy videos should be a hell of a lot easier with this.

focus on plaintext storage for your data and configs in simple, parseable formats

By this you mean text-based config files? Alright I'll give you this one. Maybe teach Xorg a lesson.

Uzbl keeps it simple, and puts you in charge.

In what way does Firefox not put me in charge? Sorry pal, you're 40 years too late.

Link to Linsux thread.