I made the switch to KDE3. So far, I haven't had any problems. 2.2.2 felt sluggish on my machine sometimes, but kde3 is fast in every respect. Text looks much better. And konqueror works with sites that had "issues" before (epinions.com, paytrust.com, etc.). Konqueror is *way* faster too. If you haven't made the switch yet, I suggest doing so. I'm running the latest CVS version, not RC3, but I guess RC3 is just as good. I'm running Gentoo, so I followed the instructions at http://www.gentoo.org/~danarmak/kde3-pre.html. Jay