Konqueror slow. Any performance tips?
 

I tried to use Konqueror in both Suse 9.3 and Suse 10.0 and I was encountered with unbearably slow load times. I upgraded KDE on Suse 10 to Kde 3.5.1, but Konqueror was still as slow as ever. Firefox on the other hand is quite snappy but it is resource intensive. Is there any way I can improve Konqueror's performance? Or is this a KDE bug?

Mmm, this is strange because on my systems Konqueror is snappier than firefox. Can you post your hardware specs so that we have more info to work on.

Pentium III 600 Mhz
256 MB of RAM
Suse 10.0 Linux Kernel 2.6.15 KDE 3.5

Yes I know not the most robust of systems, but it should be able to handle web browsing.

Could you define what you mean by slow as hell? Slow loading Konqueror itself, slow resolving web sites, slow loading the content on webpages, etc.? Both SuSE + KDE are very resource hungry in themselves, and I would expect the Konqueror app itself (along with most other apprs) to be quite slow given your specs, but if it's delays with browsing the Internet it's more likely a networking setting with Konqueror.

What version of Konqueror are you using? Have you updated to KDE 3.5 and gottent he new Konq?

I go to 'settings' and at the bottom 'configure' where I delete the cookies after a couple of websites. This has helped Konqueror's speed. You can download the free linux Opera browser; which on my computer works the fastest.

Both KDE and Konqueror boot up fast. Konqueror's web page loading speed is very slow however. It renders the slowest when its trying to render AJAX or JavaScript. Take google.com/ig for example. Firefox loads that page in 1 sec, while in Konqueror it takes 10 sec if not more. I tried the cookie idea, but that didn't work very well. I tried opera, but I keep getting segmentation faults everytime I launch it for some reason. The first time I install Opera, it works, but once I restart it can't boot up anymore, which totally sucks because I really enjoyed Opera on Windows.

I heard about disabling IPv6 on Konqueror in order to speed things up. Do you know how to do this?

I do not know if this will help or not. Go to
http://www.opera.com/download/
be sure to check for your Linux distro and download Opera to your Desktop instead of a file. That should keep it safe.

Pretty easy:
1) disabling IPv6 for KDE only:
Yast -> System -> sysconfig editor -> Expand "Desktop" scroll down to
KDE_USE_IPV6
and set this to "no"
restart KDE session

2) disable IPV6 in whole system:
open terminal window su to root, and enter
#echo "alias net-pf-10 off" >> /etc/modprobe.conf
#echo "alias ipv6 off" >> /etc/modprobe.conf

restart computer

3) disabling IPv6 in FF only
enter in the address bar:
about:config
(no spaces above)
in search filter enter ipv6
change:
network.dns.disableIPv6
from false to true

method 2) is best.

*sigh* I tried disabling IPv6 in KDE but it didn't do anything to improve my speed. I thought that the other two options wouldn't help since all other programs, like Firefox, work fine with IPv6 turned on. It seems to be a rendering issue. It's not that its not getting a fast connection. I think Konqueror receives information just as fast as Firefox, but can't render them as fast. Any help?