Elinks or lynx
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Absolutely right. I just tried it on the browsers installed on my system, loading this page:
Firefox: 560MiB
Epiphany (GNOME Web): 226MiB
elinks: 16MiB
lynx: 14MiB
Looks like lynx is the winner
(Sidenote: This isn't really a fair fight for Firefox since it's my daily driver, with extensions installed and a bunch of stuff cached. I'm guessing even a fresh install wouldn't get below 300MiB, though)
Something webkit based probably. Gnome web is probably the most accessible of these.
Not what you're asking for, but how about putting the web browser and the page rendering on a different machine? This way your main machine can focus on calculating.
Edit: If the pages are super simple, there's "web browsers" which do work on the command line which can render simple pages in a very crude way.
There's a reason these browsers use that much memory. Something in living there and that's not just overhead. You can't realistically reduce that by a reasonable amount by just using another browser while retaining functionality.