My Safari 4 experience on a Dual 2.7 PowerPC Power Mac running Tiger.

Hello. Why is Safari 4 sucking up all of my computer resources? When it is the only program running, the activity monitor shows each of my processors running at about 60%, and maxing-out at 100% if I am watching a video online, or have another app running alongside it. Safari 3 was nowhere close to this kind of performance drain. Can I really not go back to it???
Also, every single time I launch Safari 4, it hangs with the spinning ball (or whatever the cursor is), saying that Safari is "not responding" when I open the Force Quit Applications dialog. Every single time, and this lasts for at least a minute.
Eventually, the sites load up.
This is pretty bad. I am angry in reading that I cannot uninstall it and go back to Safari 3. Has anyone figured out a way yet? Apple really needs to offer a solution. Thank you for reading.

Hi
There may be corruption in your System/User Caches affecting Safari's operation.
Follow the suggestions outlined in this post. When finished (you'll have to restart the computer), go to your Applications>Utilities folder via the Finder, open Disk Utility and "repair permissions".
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