Webkit might be a good idea. As for (2), (3), (4), (5), (6) (and possibly (7)) I would just drop support for all that. We could have a nice "pure" browser.

I would be happy dropping flash. Anything that relies on Maemo-Microb-mess (maps, messaging) could be left as-is. I guess writing a new GUI for messaging should not be *that* hard.

I cannot tell for sure, but the feature of dialing directly from a browser was part of a patent-mess. If I have time I might look into that.