Safari 5 Reader Buggy, Safari 5 slow

Reader doesn't always do continuing pages correctly. For example this article in the Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/06/15/bureausfile_on_ted_kennedy_was_personalpolitical/
is two pages long. Buggy Reader gives you page 1 TWICE! Duh? No wonder Steve didn't talk much about Safari 5.
It's also much slower loading pages than 4.0.5. After installation it took several minutes and 50% CPU time to just load up the Previews for the pages in Top Sites.
Alas.

I had a similar problem with Safari 5, it became extremely slow on my INTEL iMac 24".
I remarked that Safari 5 became slow by visiting sites with a lot of ads made with Flash...
So first I updated to the latest Flash Player from Adobe, but this didn't change anything:
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
But!!! After deleting the "cache folder" of "Flash Player" (try to quit Safari first) it works great now!
Delete the Flash Player Cache Folder in your "Home Directory" then go to
Library > Caches > Adobe > Flash Player
or as Unix Path:
"~/Libary/Caches/Adobe/Flash Player"
After restarting Safari 5, Flash recreates the Flash cache folder.
Hope this helps

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