Konq and Mozilla/Firebird

I'm fairly new to KDE, only used it briefly back in RH 5.1 or sometime around there. Well I'm using Konq as my browser and it's extremely slow rendering pages off the web compaired to Mozilla/Firebird. Is there a way to speed things up in Konq? It takes Konq two or three times as long to render a page as Mozilla/Firebird. Any suggestions? I'm not bashing or anything just tring to make Konq keep up with the others. I want to keep everything I use as KDE native because I don't like using GNOME based software in KDE since they generally don't match, looks wise. Thanks.. Jason