If you have time, you might take a gander at Galeon.  (ObTurkeyDay ref)
Mozilla based engine, but with a simplified user interface that's less
of a hog on computer resources.  

It lets you permit cookies by site (some require them, these days).  And
there are features in the config files that let you bogus up the info
going out to nosy sites.  A sysadmin friend's system reports that he's
running on a "Commodore 64".  :D

Pop-ups are a "feature" of Java/Javascript/Activex.  Turn those off, and
pop-ups are gone forever.

Alas, too many sites today are saddled with tons of Flash, Shockwave,
Java, etc., felgercarb that they don't really need.  (BG nerd ref)  
I've seen, I think, about two Internet sites, total, that do anything
_useful_ with Java that couldn't be done with HTML and CGI Perl scripts.  

Generally, the sites that depend the most on the bells and whistles also
have the least actual content.  

Case in point: Dunloptire.com:  Tons of flash, but no info about the
tires.  The site doesn't even mention the Winter Sport M3.  Bridgestone
lets you get PDFs of tire specs without having to enable Java on your
browser.

Aw, dang.  I've gone into grouch mode.  And I was in _such_ a good mood.
;^)

-- Speaker for the D00d
(I've heard that BillyGate is suing the terrorist orgs for that
 "white powder" thing.
 It seems that sending a virus through the mail is copyrighted to
  Outlook Express.)   ;^)