if you're looking for a text-only browser, check out Links at http://links.sourceforge.net/ it renders tables & such much better than lynx. It just builds right up for OSX
You don't even need to monkey with patches, it just works with ssl like that!
One problem though, I can't change preferences for some reason. In the setup > terminal options menu item, if I hit return on any option, the dialog closes right away, without any options changing. Do you have this problem, or know what to do about it?