Which (Text|Terminal)-based Web Browser to use?

So after seeing phrakture's post about w3m + w3mimgdisplay? or something like that, I was wondering what terminal browsers people preferred and why.

I used elinks for a while because it renders html decently.  Then I realized "it's a text mode browser, I want it to render how it looks best in text", and that seems to be w3m.
What I like most about w3m is the sane navigation.  elinks key navigation used to piss me off.  Sure, you could change it, but that's alot to change.
w3m seems to have more "sane defaults" - it's the same reason I like weechat over irssi.
That said, the w3mimgdisplay thing just furthers the "OMG" factor of w3m.
It *does* work within screen too, but not over ssh (yet?).  The only problem is that w3m images are positioned with absolute values, and it can't interpret where screen splits are at, so renders on top of other crap.

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