"It's All Text" for Chrome. annoyingly, Chrome blocks forking of processes by extensions, so a daemon process (provided) needs to be running separately, but otherwise it works nicely. Particularly nice is that the daemon is just written in dependency-hell-free perl rather than Node.JS ;)

wow. that _is_ easy; wonder if it'd be nearly as easy to write an extension as it is nowadays to write userscripts in Firefox

from Nelson. looks like it's becoming a viable browser, maybe I'll give it a go

Seems to work nicely. Not quite as cleanly integrated as It's All Text! for Firefox, but getting there