( I am not sure whether it is related to this bug but maybe? ) I happened to observe very similar problems with KDE 3.3 which I compiled myself from KDE sources using konstruct (== KDE sources without any Debianisms). konqueror seemed to regularly hang.
I did not track it completely (having limited time I finally abandoned KDE 3.3 in favour of sarge standard KDE 3.2) but it seems to me that the problem is somehow related to some image handling library (I suspected libpng and some header-library mismatch or sth like that, but maybe something else). My observations: - konqueror blahblah.html (where blahblah.html was HTML file without graphics, javascripts etc) worked - konqueror some_page_with_graphics.html crashed or displayed graphics incorrectly (IIRC) - konqueror run without parameters crashed, probably due to the graphics in the default page body - I also remember seeing spoiled images somewhere else (About window or login window or sth like that) but do not remember the details, - finally I remember that there was something wrong regarding libpng (I do not remember details but libpng-dev was of different version than libpng or sth. like that) It is also worth mentioning that for some time I was using some backports (from backports.org) what could confuse some apt-upgrades. Sorry for vague report, I do not remember exact details, but maybe one can find here some idea of the things to check (for instance testing konqueror on sample HTML without graphics specified as command line parameter and checking whether this changes anything). If you thing my report does not add anything valuable, just throw it away. Regards