You can search for text easily with chrome or firefox. With firefox, you can hit the quote key and search the links, pressing enter to navigate to the page. F3 goes to the next result. The same feature is not available in Chrome natively, for some obstinate reason. It kept me from switching to Chrome, but then I tried the type-ahead-find extension. It's a script so it won't be as fast as native, but it's so much better than nothing.

Firefox also has the Vimperator plugin that gives vim-like nav for Firefox. Highly recommended if you like Vim.