Safari 6: unclickable links.

In Safari 6.0.3 (and Chrome, but not Firefox) links on some pages are unclickable. Sites include, oddly, http://www.apple.com/support/, Another site is http://seattletimes.com/html/home/index.html. The links do open in new tabs or windows, they cannot be clicked to open in the same window. This behavior stops when the user agent is changed to Firefox or Internet Explorer through the Develop menu.
This sounds like a weird way Safari interprets CSS code on some pages.
Is this a known Safari (and Chrome) issue?
I cannot find a fix elsewhere. Hope to find a clue here.
Thanks.

A hint on slashdot.com led me to turn off javascript. That solved the unclickable link problem.

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