Actually now that I have tested it Konqueror does not work on gnome OR kde on my system. I thik the install is bugged. If I am browsing files on my system it is fine but if I access the web it starts flickering and doing nothing. Watching the process on the system monitor shows about fifteen copies of kde being started and continually restarting. Shutting down kdeinit shuts the processes down. If anyone has a clue what happened it would be kind of you. Alternately I can just install kde again. However this requires me to be able to delete the required packages which the package manager will not let me do. I have tried removing and reinstalling the extra packages but no change.
