Please include the fix from upstream (see last comment) fixing this very annoying problem. Reproducible: Always
The fix is part of 2.1 which I will bump shortly.
Bumped in CVS. + 28 Jan 2013; Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org> +rekonq-2.1.ebuild, + -rekonq-1.2.ebuild, -rekonq-1.3.ebuild: + Version bump. Remove old.
Thanks!