Lightest, Fastest Web Browser?

Hi all, as some of you may know from my recent posts, I have just home built a new vintage Pentium Pro 200 MHz system with dual CPUs and 128 MB of RAM. Arch is 686 optimized and the Pentium Pro is a the original 686 - it was a no brainer to put Arch on this machine.
I have it up and running nicely under Arch these days and it is surprisingly functional and zippy using the combination of XFCE4 (without the XFCE4 destop) and Rox Filer as the desktop. The only thing that really bogs down is the web browser. I have of course loaded Firefox 2.0.0.4, but it is very, very slow to launch. I hunted down an old version of Opera (6.06) that is much faster, but which has a tendency to simply crash and burn when it hits things on web pages it doesn't understand due to its age (1997 I think).
Of the current set of browsers available in the Arch repositories, which is the fastest and lightest? I have heard that maybe Epiphany is pretty good, or perhaps Galeon, but I haven't found any real evidence one way or the other, so I am soliciting your input.
In your experience, what is the lightest full function web browser I could load on this older, slower hardware?
Thanks!

mac57 wrote:Hi I tried Kazehkase - it does load quickly, but seems slow to render pages, almost as if it delays for a time before starting. There also doesn't seem to be any way of setting a home page. I have set the UI level to "expert" but still cannot find this. Do you know how to set a home page? Certainly this is a promising looking browser!
Of course it loads quickly and renders slowly, it uses its own interface (which I find very crappy btw), but gecko engine
Anyway, it looks like "full function" and "light and fast" are contradictory, at least for now. I'm still waiting for the ideal web browser which will prove this wrong.

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