I found (some time ago, actually), that using the 'fast' malloc function included with kde3.0 was a good win for the konq-embed speed also.=20 What do you think about bringing it in from kdelibs? Luciano =2D-=20 Luciano Montanaro// My public GPG key can be /"\ ASCII RIBBON \X/ found at wwwkeys.pgp.net \ / CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML=20 / \ MAIL