Major drop in Safari performance!

I have been using Safari for Windows for quite some time. And I have enjoyed it for the most part. Now however, for reasons unknown to me, Safari is grinding to a hault. I open up pages and it takes a HUGE amount of time to load the entire page, if it will even load at all. This discussion board is one of the sites that simply won't load all the way. Flickr too.
I dont know how to fix Safari. I tried cleaning out the cache but that did not help at all.
When I switch to Firefox, I get lighting fast web pages opening. Safari seems a little nuts now but I dont want to switch to Firefox. But as things stand, I will have to since performance is truly bad with Safari.
Anyone know how to speed things up?
I am using 3.0.4
thanks!

Strange. I have 3.0.4 and when I run software update, it says all my software is up to date. I went to Apple's Safari download page and 3.0.4 is the only version available.
I had to do all this on Firefox since it takes Safari minutes to load any page now. I am going to miss Safari. I really grew to like it while it worked.

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form values
download.plist
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com.apple.Safari.plist
Repair permissions.
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Hey,
Im developing a java applet with "drag and drop" capabilities. However when i try to drag something on it in safari, safari just tries to open the files. It used to work, and when tried on other computers it does work properly. So some settings seems to be wrong on my computer. However im unable to find any such settings. Im still a rookie at using Mac OS, but havent been able to find any solution googling this.
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Thanks for reply!
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HI,
You've had this issue for sometime I see. http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2133848#2133848 Hopefully the suggestions I've made will help.
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Dear all,
I've been experiencing a very annoying issue : is several applications (Itunes, Mozilla, Safari, Ableton, etc. - everything that does audio) is get occasional, irregular freezes. The audio would freeze for about 20 sec, videos that are playing would freeze too. After this 20 sec freeze thing continue normally. If for example a track plays in iTunes and freeze at the 1'00" mark, it will continue playing from there after the approx. 20 sec freeze is over.
Other apps opened in the background (text editor for example) remain functioning.
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Every time this freeze happens, a list like this appears in console :
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" coreaudiod : Disabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is inactive"
" coreaudiod : Disabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is active"
" coreaudiod : Disabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is inactive"
" coreaudiod : Disabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is active"
" coreaudiod : Disabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is inactive"
(sometimes the list of enabled-disabled is longer)
troubleshooting i've tried so far :
1) I have recently done a clean install of the OS, manually copying the necessary files and installing the applications. I was obliged to do this since my hard disk failed 2 weeks ago and my mac had become very unstable. I've been working on 10.8.5 for a long time and haven't encountered this issue until after the clean install.
2) updating all necessary firmware
3) updating adobe flash
4) creating a com.apple.audio.ServerSettings.plist file with xcode and placing it in the library/audio folder with this content :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
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a tip i found here : http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/91297/coreaudiod-spams-system-log-enabl ed-automatic-stack-shots-because-audio-i… After doing this i didn't have the problem for 1 whole day, afterwards the same issue popped up again.
5) manually quitting the coreaudiod process in activity monitor and restarting - this also seemed to help for a while but didn't last
Any hints and help are extremely welcome - I need this issue to be solved asap since i need to be able to depend on a stable audio environment for professional reasons.
Thanks a lot in advance,
K

Oh and I also tried :
* P-Ram reset
* repairing permissions, verifying disk and hardware diagnostics - no apparent issues there
thanks
k

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First, you aren't speaking to Apple here. This is strictly a user-user forum set up to provide technical support. If you want to make the request to Apple then do it via the iPad Feedback Form — http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html
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Anyone tried reinstalling all of SL (from scratch) to solve these kind of problems? Something left over from 10.5 which should not be there that's confusing Safari and SL?
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HI,
Please update your profile by clicking My Settings on the right side of this page to reflect the SL upgrade. Thanks!
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Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in the left panel.
Select First Aid in the Main panel.
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