Well, perhaps I jumped the gun abit on Konqueror. Tonight, I installed bitchx (which doesn't seem to want to start from a console) and mutt (which complains about opening vt100 on start). I then went to see if I could access gmail. Suprisingly enough, I could, and I read some recently arrived mail.

Go figure.

Did google change something? Or was there a pleasant side effect of installing mutt/bitchx and the dependency libs it installed (crypto, ssl)? No idea. But happy I can get mail.