I just found a mini web browser, it is freeware and can be found at http://www.geocities.com/minibrws/

it can acept urls from the command line, for those DOS folks. It has a GUI type tool bar with your back, forward, refresh, and address bar controlls. Prity nice for a DOS application. And can fetch web pages quickyly. It is free and worth a try, if simplicity is your style.

It apears to be acepting the settings found in Controll pannel> Internet options

I checked to see if it was useing my proxomitron, and yes, it suports proxomitron.

MiniBrowser now accepts URLs from a command line (eg. "MiniBrws32.exe http://www.yahoo.com")
Extra command line feature "-notoolbar"
Options Dialog!
Choose your own homepage & searchpage instead of IE's defaults
Toggle the tool bar from the options dialog or by pressing 'F4'
Some nicer icons

Conclusion:

I like it, its simple, fast, uses little resources, and little RAM. Worth a try.