Safari launches with spinning ball and full fans and 100% CPU web processes

Exactly the same issue on Macbook Air and new iMac both running Safari 5.1 and Lion 10.7.3
When I open Safari it does not open a page, it just shows a spinning beach ball and shortly after the fans kick in and the activity monitor shows 1 webprocess at 99 - 100% or sometimes 2 web processes at 50/50% all coming from the User. When I inspect the process it says it's "Parent Process (Safari 450)"
When I quit safari the web processes stay at 100% and will only stop when I quit them in activity monitor.
I have reset Safari but no joy.
Firefox etc works fine.
The only update I ran was a 1Password update but they say it's not them.
Any help would be appreciated. It's driving me crazy.

Solved..... I used App Zapper to delete Flash and Safari is working fine again!

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