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For several releases now, since 3.0 anyway, web browsing in Konqueror is so slow it's not useable and I have resorted to using Mozilla for web browsing. Mozilla is good, but I still like Konqueror better. File management with Konqueror works fine with no speed issues. I keep hoping everytime a new release comes out it will fix this, but now I'm on 3.3.1 and still extremely slow. It's not just a specific site, it doesn't appear to matter where I browse to.

Does this sound familiar to anyone and how to correct? Running on SuSE 9.1

Thanks in advance.

I have used all versions of Konqueror since before 3.0 on a range of distros: SuSE, Gentoo, Debian. Never has it been too slow to be usable. On the contrary, I don't use Mozilla unless I have to because it's so much slower (especially the startup).

So what can you do? To narrow down the problem, I'd set up a new user on this system, log in and browse the web. See if the speed is normal. That way you can determine if the problem lies somewhere in your particular configuration files.

If that's the case you can either remove your .kde directory (or move it away so you have a backup) if you're willing to start over with your complete configuration, or try to move away only the konqueror-related files.

To find them:
find ~/.kde | grep -i konqueror
find ~/.kde | grep -i khtml
There may be others.

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Original von dmc

Thanks for the tips.

I set up a new user and tried browsing. What seems to be happening is the Konqueror navigates to a site almost immediately, but rendering the page is very slow. Sometimes it does half the page, then seems to go out to lunch and does not respond. Hit refresh, and the page displays completely almost instantly.

And that happens with any page?

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Any page that is not on my local machine, yes. As I am typing this in Konqueror it is still trying to render the graphics on the page.

Are you using a proxy? I so, try to switch it off to see if that makes any difference.

Your description reminded me of a problem I've seen myself when browsing through a local privoxy server (ad filter). The funny thing was that only the kde.org pages had been affected, not any other site I visited... ;-)

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No, no proxy. Using Netgear router which I've used for quite a while connected to cable modem.

I'm afraid I'm running out of ideas

You could boot a Knoppix from CD to check if it's your network situation or your Linux and KDE installation/configuration.