Safari 4 extremely slow

In the discussion forum of Swedish MacWorld (the magazine) we are currently four participants that experience the same problem. When visiting a certain website, called "Blocket" ("The Pad") Safari (v. 4.1.2 and 4.1.3) sometimes gets very slow. In particular scrolling pages is slow, and the Safari menus are too.
There is nothing funny about this site as such. It is the most popular advertising site in our country.
The problem is caused by one or two files that are created in Users>[user folder]>Library>Safari>LocalStorage and that derive from this particular site. One may turn Safari off and throw them away, but in a week or so they will have been recreated and the problem reappears.
So what is one to do? Write an applescript that automatically deletes these file (files) at upstart? Update Safari (and possibly the OS version)? Use Firefox?

Is he using an ATT or VZW iPhone..also, is he using wi-fi or the cellular data network? If wi-fi I wonder if another non mobile device, say a laptop or something, connected to the same access point, has the same slow issues. This article has some additional details about troubleshooting wi-fi
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1398

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