Konqueror opens slowly

I'm using the latest GIT. I haven't done any deep digging but there is no doubt that Konqueror is opening much slower than I am accustomed. Any request to open Konqueror takes two or more seconds. This is a dual core system with 8GB RAM and SATA II disks. I have not seen this problem before. Only recently. I have an instance preloaded and always have had that option enabled, but what I see indicates this is not happening. Could there have been a patch in the past few weeks that is affecting preloading? I checked Konqueror in a virtual machine using a GIT package set that hasn't been updated in a couple of months. There, Konqueror opened right away, thereby confirming my observations in my normal system. A fresh profile makes no difference. Anybody else noticing this? Darrell