Safari 7.1.2 slow, broken HD shipped w/ my mac and OS worse and worse

After upgrading to Safari 7.1.2 on mavericks 10.9.5, Safari is pretty slow and crashing sometimes. I'm tired of seeing the spinning colourful wheel.
Btw, I use mavericks because Yosemite is F**** slow and the colourful wheel is all I see when i try to run anything. Mavericks is a bit faster, but still is not even close to what I expect from a mac with the hardware I have, I just don't use Mountain lion (which runs perfectly) because I need some new features of Mavericks.
Btw, my old 2007 pc was much faster than this when I bought it. Turns out it was speeded up only when I bough a new HD (1 tb) and cleaned installed OS X on it. I restored completely my 750 gb HD (shipped with my mac) and it was still pretty slow (with more than 500 gb of free space). That means: I bought a mac with a broken HD. When I took it to the store (while in warranty) to figure why it was so slow, I got my mac 4 days later and the answer: everything is running normal, which was not!
Macbook pro 13' late 2011 (i7, 2.8 gHz, 4 gb ram, 750 gb HD (which now is 1TB))

Do a backup.
Quit the application.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Restart, open the application and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.
Activity Monitor - Mavericks also Yosemite
Activity Monitor in Mavericks has significant changes
Performance Guide
Why is my computer slow
Why your Mac runs slower than it should
Slow Mac After Mavericks
Things you can do to resolve slowdowns see post by Kappy
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*Also see news about latest OSX version --> http://www.tuaw.com/2012/02/16/mountain-lion-drops-support-for-several-older-mac-models/
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Safari 5.1.8 is broken in snow leopard. Application will show in menubar, but all menu choices are nonfunctional.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/27/cyber-attack-spamhaus-slows-dow n-internet
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HT201222 Is it just me or is the last safari update for Yosemite slowing everyone down? Any ideas how to fix it?

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☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
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from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
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from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
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Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.
Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
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Hi there
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thanks both for the repliy
I now its not the network as its fine with everything else. Also I have already tried restoring the ipod with itunes and that didn't make any difference. I have now reset it like you said but that didn't work. Not sure what to do now maybe safari just want work like it use to. I forgot to say it is a second gen ipod touch so it is quite old now.
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Applejack might help.
Download:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/applejack/
Article on using:
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These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.
Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.
Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

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annamary wrote:
images on every website I visit aren't loading and generally Safari is very slow
No need to delete Safari.
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