Firefox Konqueror move

(warning: long post + bad English )
I've moved from Firefox yesterday. Mainly for the following reasons:
1. got fed up with crashes (using the testing 1.5-2 thing as well as my custom-compiled cvs supposed-to-be-fixed packages)
2. Firefox's a terrible memory hog. Just by browsing forums (no real huge pictures or anything) Firefox's memory footprint reported by xrestop could rise to just above 120MB. It kept on causing my 512MB machine to swap all the time.
3. I use KDE, and thus QT is my 'main' toolkit. I've been running gtk-qt-engine all the time, but... still.. it looked more like a hack (some things weren't looking correct). And the GTK FileChooser... nothing near KDE's IOslaves (yes, I know, I could use gnome-vfs, but I don't want any gnome parts on my system, none, period)
I've never used Konqueror for anything except file browsing before. I was rally pleasantly surprised by how configurable it is!
1. I really hate the mid-click goto clipboard url thing in any browser. I quickly found a way to turn it off. Instead, now I'm having that pretty auto-scrolling feature I've been using all the time in Firefox (although it's a bit slow).
2. I'm using tabs all the time. One thing I've got used to in Firefox is the mid-click close tab. It really works wonders. I've had to hack a bit around to get it working the way I wanted:
In ~/.kde/share/config/konquerorrc add under [FMSettings]
MouseMiddleClickClosesTab=true
3. I had to remap some shortcuts. Ctrl-L for Location bar and Ctrl-K for search bar.
4. I've been pleasantly surprised by the Ad-Blok feature.. works great - just like the Firefox extension. And the acronym thingy! Thumbs up for the devs. It's 100x easier to configure it than it is under Firefox. And.. you can manage them easily.
5. Integration.. the thing I've been missing the most in Firefox. Although I've been able to get Kpdf to view pdf's inside Firefox, other things were crippled. And here, they just work And don't forget. Now the browser know what mimetype opens in which program
6. Bookmarks: importing them from Firefox was painless
7. Kwallet: Well... too bad I couldn't move my passwords and cookies to Konqueror as painlessly as the previous things. I had to edit them all by hand since I haven't found a neat import feature anywhere
To tell you the truth: Now my Konqueror looks exactly the same as my Firefox setup. Really. Even the button, toolbar and partially the menu (you can edit them by hand in ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/konqueror.rc) were changed I have the same browsing experience, without the memory problems or the crashers... and a far better integration.
However.. there is one thing I'm missing. Sage (RSS reader for Firefox). I really loved it. I don't have zillions of RSS feeds to manage, just a couple of sites I'd like to stay up to date. I really loved the way it allowed me to render the feeds using my custom CSS style in the main window. I really miss that. Akregator is fine, but it's... it's just not it. It's a stand-alone application that's aimed at people who have thousands of feeds. I only have a couple. I wish there was something like Sage for Konqueror... a RSS browser in the sidebar.
Just some thoughts. I don't want to start a flame-war (yes, I know this is not the type of forum, but no one never knows ). If anyone has any suggestions on some features I've been missing, please let me know
(again, an awefully long post )

Being happy with the move from Firefox to Konqueror I decided to do something about Thunderbird.
Thunderbird is a great app, but starting it up took waay too long. I mean I have a lot of mail messages, with archives in separate "folders" and such.. It took 30-40 seconds to start. Kmail on the other hands starts (together with a bit stripped down Kontact) in just 9 seconds.
The move to Kmail/Kontact was a bit painful. At first, Kmail appeared as a hostile, unknown territory. No separate "folders" for each account, everything went to the common inbox folder. Though I could move my old messages with ease, I had to configure the accounts manually. Also the address book made some issues. I could migrate it using CSV files, but the 'show as' field disappeared. I had to reconfigure it manually again But after I've done the hard part, everything went downhill frpm now on.
I discovered the great identity manager, the thing I've been used to in TB. I mainly use POP3 accounts, so being able which "personality" I use currently is a good thing. Furthermore, being able to group 2 accounts under one identity gave me a pleasant suprise.
Apart from that, the spell checker. Comparing to the KDE's integrated spell checker, the solution in TB simply sucks. Error highlight, different language for different identify. Just superb. And don't forget about the mime integration - the thing I've been missing in TB for a looong time.
The downside of the move was spam filtering. I mean, on one of my accounts (dating back to 2000 ) I get loads of spam, ~110 each day. I can honestly say that TB's junk mail control is better than Kmail's external filtering (I'm using bogofilter, spamassasin used too much CPu power). Although I can live with it, it's slower... noticeably slower.
I've decided to put my mail into 'maildir' format. I don't know if it's a good choice, but I've read somewhere that it's also used by Evolution and other apps. Anyone can confirm?

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