[kde-linux] Konqueror browser EXTREMELY slow

[Gary L. Greene Jr.]

On Saturday 05 August 2006 12:54, Steven Pasternak wrote:
> 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
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Unless the distribution that you are using really messed konqueror up, this is 
patently false from the experience I've found. Konq has by and far been 
faster than gecko based engines for a great deal of time.
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