Currently I am testing the browser rekonq, a WebKit based KDE browser which is handled as the next KDE default browser by some. If that might happen or not is a question best left to the future, but the browser itself has some nice features in the current version 0.4 beta: kwallet integration, addblock, plugin support, etc.

However, with the current git checkout the favorites management is not working properly: on about:favorites you can easily delete the favorites, but you cannot add new ones or manage them at all. But there is still the config file $HOME/.kde/share/config/rekonqrc, all you have to do is to change the entries below "NewTabPage": a comma separated list shows first the URLs and then the comments for the URLs, and is failry simple to edit:

[NewTabPage]
previewNames=http://www.heise.de,http://www.spiegel.de,http://www.tagesschau.de,,,,,
previewUrls=heise.de,spiegel.de,tagesschau.de,,,,,

This is one of the things that rekonq still has some problems with, and it shows that rekonq is still in heavy development. But it is already promising and I do wonder whether it might be a real alternative to other browsers for KDE users.