I've noticed this problem as well. However, I don't use Konq for file browsing as much so I notice it mostly when I open it to browse web pages. Right after opening the window, everything will be fine for a second. Then I'll attempt to type an url in or something and responsiveness will just fall off. Even clicking the close window button in the top right takes almost a minute to take effect.
I first noticed it maybe a couple weeks ago, like Justin said. It's intermittent. I usually close it and open another konq window and it works fine. *shrug* On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 01:31:39PM -0500, Justin R. Miller scribbled: > I recently started having a problem where konqueror in file browsing > mode will take a long time to show the contents of a folder. Even > reloading the current view will take two or three seconds before any > icons are shown. Also, the gear spinner stops during this hang, and the > window and its menus are inaccessible as well. This happens for every > single directory in this window. > > Other times, things will work fine. It seems that these times are only > when occasionally when new windows are started, and then all windows > become ok. > > This doesn't seem to have any relation to style, whether previews of any > sort are enabled, icon type, or directory size. > > This seemed to have started a few weeks ago, but I can't put my finger > on anything specific that would have changed, besides pretty much daily > sid updates. > > Any ideas? > > -- > Justin R. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > PGP/GnuPG Key ID 0xC9C40C31 (preferred)

