Help! I killed Safari on my mac!

Ok so I recently I discovered there were add-ons available for Safari and I installed this one called Saft
but I didn't like it because it was just a demo and a message kept popping up telling me to register it, so I decided to unistall it, I used AppCleaner to delete it, after that, I opened safari and the annoying pop ups were still there as well as all the stuff from the application in other words it didn't go away from Safari, so I went ahead and deleted safari, and reinstalled it again, but now it freezes upon opening it, it doesnt load any pages, nothing! it just freezes.
How can I fix this problem?

Try finding any stray bits of Saft and deleting them. Close Safari first.
You fill find them in one or either of these folders:
Home/Library/Input Managers
Hard Disk/library/Input Managers
Hard Disk/Library/Application Support

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