You named the closest solution we have to the Chrome hegemony- Firefox. It's a fully-featured browser that's open-source and maintained by a nonprofit organizat

You named the closest solution we have to the Chrome hegemony- Firefox. It's a fully-featured browser that's open-source and maintained by a nonprofit organization. Browsers are complicated. Like, desktop operating system levels of complicated. Think about it- multitasking, resource allocation, I/O management, graphics, file management, networking... these are things your browser does. If you really want to get into the weeds, check out Surf (http://surf.suckless.org http://surf.suckless.org). Its features include "the ability to display websites and follow links."