Safari madness

It's kind of alarming reading about all these problems with Safari. For the first time since I've owned a Mac (7 months) I've started having some myself. We've all done the fixes but nothing seems fixed. I'm getting the color wheel often and doing forced quits on almost a daily basis for the last few day. I'm also getting
"Safari unexpectedly quit" messages as well. It's very depressing but I guess it's the price one pays to have this technology. It's a wonderful but very flawed system that all the Apple "geniuses" can't seem to resolve. In a related matter:
I went to speakeasy.net which gives you a free test of how fast your computer is. I discovered that my computer runs at 4.6 megabits per sec when I'm paying Road Runner to deliver 5 megabits per sec. Time Warner is sending out a tech to see what the problem is. The lack of speed doesn't cause crashing but it does slow things down.

Dylanmusic,
Could you please post a crash report to see if we can help ?
Home/~Library/Logs/ Crash reporter---> Safari
they can be quit helpful, once read. Did you submit them to apple as well with the bug report?

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Safari: Unsupported third-party add-ons may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit or have performance issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3230?viewlocale=en_US
Resolution
Use the add-on's uninstaller, if possible
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~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/
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Feb 24, 2012 5:58 PM (in response to MacFanBoy1997)
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