Konqueror slow with bigger images

[Hasso Tepper]

I hear more and more complaints from users that Konqueror is awfully slow 
on webpages with some images. Indeed I can reproduce this on all my 
computers. For good example look at screenshots in 
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=10187

With two first screenshots Konqueror is awfully slow - it takes several 
seconds to render window again after resize, scrolling is slow etc. But 
third screenshot appears instantly, no any slowdowns with resizing or 
scrolling. Point seems to be that first two screenshots are RGBA images, 
but third one is RGB.

But what's strange that problem doesn't appear for all users. Some users 
say that they don't see any slowdown. There are users who say that 
problem appreared for them after SuSE 10.0 -> 10.1 upgrade, while for 
others there is no problem etc.

Is it known problem? What is causing this? Is there any workaround?


regards,

-- 
Hasso Tepper
KDE Estonian Team