what you want isn't possible with the web being like MTV and moving far beyond it's original intention. The best you can get is get one of the small browsers and live with broken pages. Some people do just that. I think you should be think in terms of relativity though. Think about how much a "10 MB" only browser took up in main memory back in the day.
> I think you should be think in terms of relativity though.
> Think about how much a "10 MB" only browser took up in main
> memory back in the day.
This is exactly the point, software has swelled to use the resources available to it, so with each new iteration your machine gets faster but what it runs gets slower. It doesn't feel like this is something we should settle for.