Fortunately w3m has an external browser commands which let's you open the current URL in a browser.
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Unfortunately he only removed stuff and stopped there.
IMHO, the most important thing to improve the user experience is to enable link numbers. With link numbers enabled you can[0] jump to a link by typing the number and then LINK_BEGIN (default '[').
[0]: Technically you can do this without enabling link numbers, but you need count the links yourself.
And yes, w3m rocks.
edit: To answer my own question https://duckduckgo.com/params