Konqueror as Browser

Hi all. I'm using SUSE 9.3 on an AMD 64 machine. In trying to use Konqueror 3.4.0 as my web browser I often get unknown host errors when trying to access web sites This happens even with sites like Google, example below. An error occurred while loading http://www.google.com/search?q=google&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8: Unknown host www.google.com Often I will try the same URL three or four times before it finally connects. This doesn't happen all the time but much too often to be acceptable. Other times I will get a file not found error. Still other times it will work fine. Can anybody offer any insight?! TIA. -- LTR bulloved@nitline.com