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Writing a web browser is non-trivial.

There is a middle ground, using electron + per-site customization. HN user megous got a bit of attention when he teased a bit more detail two weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13226170

that's the Richard Stallman approach: https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

he has a script that he can poke to download the content and email it to himself. then he reads it with emacs or maybe lynx with no networking enabled.

At least he doesn't print it out.

I wish you good luck doing online banking that way :')

Are people doing online banking using Tor?

That would be rather dumb, I think, assuming the bank account is tied to you in meatspace

If your country blocks access to online banking, you would use tor.