[kde-linux] Konqueror browser EXTREMELY slow

[Steven Pasternak]

James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Steven Pasternak wrote:
>   
>> Hi! I have kde 3.5.3 installed on a fedora 5 system. When I try to use 
>> konqueror as a web browser, it is unbelievably slow. The same websites 
>> load at least 5 times faster with mozilla, seamonkey, firefox, opera, 
>> and even ie6 (ies4linux - just a test). I've experienced this problem 
>> with various distributions since kde 3.1! I saw somewhere that ipv6 is 
>> involved. How do I make konqueror any faster? Thanks!
>>     
>
> You can try turning off IPv6 in KDE.
>
> You need to have:
>
> 	KDE_NO_IPV6=true
> 	export KDE_NO_IPV6
>
> in your profile.d script for KDE.
>
>   
I did that in ~/.bashrc and /etc/profile.d/kde.sh, and just to be safe I 
even rebooted. I opened a terminal and did 'echo $KDE_NO_IPV6', and it 
did say true. It might of made it a little faster, but it is still 
painfully slow. Is konqueror/khtml by nature just a bit slower than the 
gecko-based browsers, or what?
-Steven