Safari freezes when rotated

If I'm in portrait mode in Safari and I rotate my iphone 4 to landscape mode, Safari will occasionally freeze (about one time out of 5). To restore it, I have to quit Safari, then tap the icon to rerun it. Usually it won't start back up on the first retry - It boots to the Safari screen, but it's blank and is frozen. I knock it down and try again and usually on the second or third try it runs OK again
This freeze occurs intermittently and I can't recreate it. It started a few weeks ago. I thought that installation of 4.3 would help, but it's still there.
I'm assuming that since it has persisted through a firmware change (upgrade to 4.3), it's not going to be helped by a restore, but perhaps I'm wrong. If Safari wasn't a built in program, I'd uninstall and reinstall a fresh copy - any way to do that? Since it glitches when rotated, I also wonder if it's somehow hardware related to that rotation sensor.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. - Frank

I did take it into the Genius bar. They checked it and said they could see numerous Safari freezes - I guess they have a way to read activity and errors. They had no answers for why it would freeze, but gave me a new (refurbished, I'm sure) phone.
So I'll restore and hope the problem doesn't come back in through the software restore.......

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