Safari 5 ridiculously slow

I just had a problem where every time I opened Safari 5 it would immediately hang, requiring me to do a force quit. Last night I launched Safari and it hung again. Just for laughs I left it running with the evil beach ball. This morning Safari had launched and I was able to use it for the first time in weeks. However, now Safari does everything incredibly slow. I mean minutes to load a page. Hangs for several minutes when I try to change preferences. I just did major cleanup on my Power Mac G5 (DiskWarrior 4, Tech Tool Pro 5, fix permissions, etc.), and it's running really fast, so I know it's not the G5. Frankly, I don't know what I did to get Safari working again at all. It worked in other user accounts, but in the main account I had the hanging problem. Don't know if that has anything to do with the speed issue.

HI,
It worked in other user accounts, but in the main account I had the hanging problem.
You may have a third party Safari add on causing the problem.
Go here for trouble shooting 3rd party plugins or input managers which might be causing the problem. Safari: Add-ons may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit or have performance issues
Don't know if that has anything to do with the speed issue.
Yes it does actually. It means the glitch is just in that particular user account, not a system wide issue.
Carolyn

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