Safari freeze on page load

Safari seems to be freezing whenever I attempt to load a page. The program launches and opens an empty window fine, but freezes exactly when I type in an address and hit enter. Re-installing, deleting preferences, checking permissions and verifying disk have not worked. Interestingly, though, the program works fine in other user accounts.
Any ideas?

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