Safari freezes for a minute or two and there's a rotating color wheel

Quite often, when going to different websites and stuff, Safari will freeze up, and there will be a rotating color wheel, and then after a couple minutes it will load the page. It's pretty annoying and I'd like to get it fixed. It's a Macbook Pro with the Snow Leopard update on Mac OS X. I'm pretty new to Macs(just got this about 2 weeks ago). Any help would be great. Thanks!

HI... welcome to Apple Discussions and congrats on our new Mac!
Use Open DNS
Click the computer icon and follow the instructions.
Also, from the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari / Empty Cache
and... from the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari / Reset Safari. Select the top 5 buttons and click Reset.
And...
1. Quit Safari if it's running.
2. Go to Home/Library/Caches/Safari and delete all the sub-folders within that one.
3. Go to Home/Library/Safari and delete any of these files you have there:
• Downloads.plist
• History.plist
• LastSession.plist
4. Restart Safari and restart your Mac.
*"when going to different websites and stuff, Safari will freeze up"*
If Safari freezes up when visiting sites with Flash content, try Uninstalling the current Flash Player Plugin, then reinstall new.
How to uninstall and reinstall Flash Player plugin:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html
When you are finished uninstalling the old Flash plugin, go here and install a fresh copy
of Flash Player plugin
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/
As with any installations, repair disk permissions.
Quit any open applications/programs. Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.
Carolyn

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