Safari is Unusable After Upgrading to 10.6.3, Continually Beach-Balls

Recently, I upgraded to 10.6.3 on my MacBook Pro 15" (early 2006). I immediately noticed that Safari became unusable. Every 10 seconds or so, it would hang for about 30 seconds, become unresponsive and showing the spinning beach ball. If I search for Safari in system.log in Console, I see the following whenever this happens:
Apr 4 13:06:55 Jordan-Kays-MacBook-Pro Safari[1229]: INSERT-HANG-DETECTED: Tx time:43.986384, # of Inserts: 0, # of bytes written: 0, Did shrink: NO
It seems that Safari is the only application that is having this problem. I backed up all of my files, wiped my main hard drive, reinstalled Snow Leopard and then updated to 10.6.3. I made sure to verify and repair the drive. Still, I am getting these errors, with Safari hanging frequently, though not as bad as before.
Is anyone else having these problems, and is there a fix?

HI,
I immediately noticed that Safari became unusable. Every 10 seconds or so, it would hang for about 30 seconds, become unresponsive and showing the spinning beach ball.
From the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari / Empty Cache. When you are done with that...
From the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari / Reset Safari. Select the top 5 buttons and click Reset.
Go here for trouble shooting 3rd party plugins or input managers which might be causing the problem. Safari: Add-ons may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit or have performance issues
Since you are running Snow Leopard, *make sure Safari is opening in 32-bit mode, not 64.* Right or control click the Safari icon in the Applications folder, then click: Get Info In the Get Info window click the black disclosure triangle next to General so it faces down. Select 32 bit mode. Also, (in that same window) *make sure Safari is NOT running in Rosetta.*


Web pages now include a small icon or 'favicon' which is visible in the address bar and next to bookmarks. These icons take up disk space and slow Safari down. It is possible to erase the icons from your computer and start fresh. *To delete Safari's icon cache using the Finder, open your user folder, navigate to ~/Library/Safari/ and move this file "webpageIcons.db to the Trash.*
If Safari still "beachballs", go to the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari/Preferences. Make note of all the preferences under each tab. Quit Safari. Now go to ~/Library/Preferences and move this file com.apple.safari.plist to the Desktop. Relaunch Safari. If it's a successful launch, then that .plist file needs to be moved to the Trash.
Note... anytime you update from one Mac OS X to the next ie; 10.6.2 to .3 always 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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