You might try Opera  www.opera.com
I use it in Linux, Solaris, and Windows. It is fast,
and stable. 
Also, you mentioned that you replaced win95? with RH
8.1, what is your processor and memory on your
computer? Red Hat 8.1 and KDE need memory. I would say
at least 256 to run good. I hope you also have  a
processor at least a 233 or better? Anyhting slower,
and you will indeed get a bit of a lag.

Kurt

--- Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins@tarcanfel.org> wrote:
> So I'm trying out the concept of running in Linux as
> my primary OS instead of 
> Windows95, with KDE on RedHat 8.1RC2 as the current
> environment, and it's 
> going reasonably well. 
>  
> Some things seem to take too long to load,
> particularly the Konqueror file 
> browser.  Some things are still a puzzle - if I
> create a bash script and try 
> to get a desktop link to it, it comes up as a plain
> text file. 
>  
> My Compaq keyboard with the eight shortcut buttons
> still doesn't work, and the 
> closest I can find in teh KDE gui config is for one
> with "seven buttons".  I 
> changed the login manager settings in the KDE
> control panel (only thing I 
> could find) and it didn't take effect. 
>  
> I did get Quicken for Windows (~v6?) to run under
> Wine, although I haven't 
> worked out how to get a shortcut to it yet (that's
> why I was trying to link to 
> a bash script). 
>  
> Trying to run Garmin's Map Source for my GPS under
> Wine gives a segfault. 
>  
> Haven't tried DeLorme's Map StreetAtlas 9 under Wine
> yet. 
>  
> But to the topic: browser performance:   
>  
> Knoqueror aparantly lacks some scripting support; it
> can't open RHN and it 
> doesn't load my bank's web page.  An informal
> wristwatch timing sesssion 
> opening the Bank of America page with Mozilla vs.
> Galeon yeilded: 
>  
> Mozilla: 10 seconds 
> Galeon:	 13 seconds 
>  
> Surprising to me, I thought Mozilla was still the
> bloat-monster. 
> ({mozilla|galleon} http://www.bankofamerica.com) 
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