Konqueror browser EXTREMELY slow

[Colin J Thomson - G6AVK]

Hi Steven,

On Friday 04 August 2006 04:26, 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!

IPV6 problem, putting this into your .bashrc will help:
 
export KDE_NO_IPV6=true

OR I am not sure if Fedora's KDE packages has this (running kde-redhat here) 
but you can edit /etc/profile.d/kde.sh
and uncomment the line referring to KDE_NO_IPV6.

HTH

Colin
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