Safari loads blank pages

Hello
A problem has recently started on my MacBook with Safari, I can browse the web fine and get on all the websites I want to. However sometimes when I click on a link safari looks like it is loading the page as normal and takes the normal amount of time but fails to display anything, I just end up with a white page! This consistently occurs with the same pages, I then just have to refresh the page and it loads fine every time!
If I Ctrl-click on the page and select 'view source' the source of the page is displayed!
All the pages that fail to display have worked fine in the past, I'm not really sure when or why the problem started.
I have repaired permissions and deleted the Safari preferences file.
Any help would be appreciated.
Bryan

ewww, why on earth would you want to look at that? . . .
Seriously, though. The page does download properly for me (and quite quickly too). That suggests a problem with your settings. If you have another account, try to download the page with that. (It is sometimes a good idea to have an alternative account so that one can test for any differences.)
One might also try with another browser.
With Safari, however, I would check two things, both in the Safari menu (top left of your screen):
(A) Block popup windows (if on, turn off; of off, turn on -- perverse I know. Mine is showing blocked)
(B) Empty cache.
And with both of those, restart Safari. You might also consider (down the line a bit) a restart of the computer and a restart of your router.
You do not say how you connect to the internet, but many people do now use broadband/adsl/networks. Restarting the router would give a new external IP number and thus the site would recognise it as a new connection (this works when sometimes the iTunes shop lags).

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