I, for one, am no longer bothered by this. I have dropped the ISP I was using when I began having a problem with this behavior. With my new ISP, my connection speed is fast enough so that this would no longer be a problem.
Also, since first reporting this, I have also updated to (a) more recent version(s) of KUbuntu.
I don't know if others with slow connections are affected by this.
I, for one, am no longer bothered by this. I have dropped the ISP I was using when I began having a problem with this behavior. With my new ISP, my connection speed is fast enough so that this would no longer be a problem.
Also, since first reporting this, I have also updated to (a) more recent version(s) of KUbuntu.
I don't know if others with slow connections are affected by this.