Safari constantly freezes - never happened to this extent before!

Hi,
I recently updated Safari and since then have been facing constant freezing several times a day. I've never had to force quit Safari so frequently before. It hasn't crashed yet, so I don't think I have a crash report to provide.
How can I fix this and is there a way I can revert back to the older version of Safari 3 if this cannot be resolved??
Thank you in advance for your help!!

For now, I guess I'll resort to turning off JavaScript, but (pardon my ignorance, I'm really not knowledgeable in this stuff at all) isn't it pretty essential during web browsing?
But more importantly, I am guessing that many of us have an older version OS and that may be a factor in our Safari issues? Will we be notified when there is a way to fix this...??
I really hope this issue is resolved soon; I really prefer using Safari but may have to resort to Firefox soon =/

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Try some of this:
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Wikipedia also has an interesting article about Open DNS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDNS
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