I am experiencing the same slowness issue. I am running SuSE 9.1, but ever since KDE 3.2 even on SuSE 8.2, it has defintely slowed down. I have applied the IPV6 fix from the SuSE site and it did help, but it's no comparison to the speed of Mozilla. I had always used Konqueror in the past and love the usability features, but now I have resorted to Mozilla 1.7 just because of the speed issue, it really has become painful. If anyone has advice, it would be most appreicated. I'm not sure on the RSS issue either yet, but I haven't spent a lot of time on it yet. Thanks in advance.