@chris:
i don't think the front end have much to do with the idea that netsurf seems slower on amiga.
i'm speaking of site lookup, page fetch and initial rendering.
for that effect, even without frontend at all is allright.
you could be rendering on a plain surface, without buttons,
input field, scrollbar or even without window decoration.
if you look again at those videos, you'll see that when the user click on some link, or enter address in location bar, the browser just react faster, it start fetching and loading the page almost immediately, while on amiga if doing the same, netsurf seems to wait a while doing nothing before it finally decide to do something.
i'm not trying to mock or blame or anything, what i'm saying is just observation, and my goal would be having better browsing experience on 68k.