Safari makes my macbook freeze all of a sudden ?

A few days ago I started experiencing problems with my Macbook. It was working fine until I shut it off. I turned it back on again and it would not go past the blue screen that appears right before everything starts up, even though there was a cursor on the screen. I tried holding the power button down and restarting it, but the same thing kept happening. I had to go to school right away, so I tried unplugging the adapter and letting the battery drain out with the computer open and on. However when I got home several hours later, the blue screen was still there and it didn't seem like I had removed the adapter at all. The next thing I tried doing was reinstalling Mac OS-X operating system onto the computer and updating some software. This seemed to work fine, until the next day when I was watching a video on the internet. My computer all of a sudden froze up to the point where Finder was frozen and I couldn't force quit anything anymore, so I had to hold the power button and restart it manually. This time, however, it would not leave the gray screen. I tried resetting the PRAM, but that didn't work either. I tried performing a hard disk test, but the results came back saying that everything was okay. I tried repairing/re-verifying permissions and the hard disk, and there were only a few permissions that had to be verified. I tried restarting it again, and it still would not leave the gray screen. After this, I reinstalled the OS-X software and it seemed to work just fine. After I installed the operating system, I deleted my web browser that I was using at the time (Google Chrome) and other applications that I purchased on the App Store. I updated the software again, and that took about three hours to complete. After I had updated everything my computer turned on and restarted itself just fine. However, after everything started up, I tried loading up Safari and my computer froze up for at least 10 minutes. After the 10 minute delay everything seemed to work. However, whenever I would put my cursor over the dock, it would lag. I think that Safari is the root cause of the current problem because every other program that I opened didn't affect my computer in this way. Is it possible that my Safari application has a bug? Is it possible for me to reinstall the application onto my Macbook from the applications DVD included with the computer? Help !!!!

Hi,
Try going to your Applications folder and starting it from there, if it starts then go to the Safari menu and you will find reset Safari there.
You could try going to ~/Library/Safari and ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist. Move to either the trash or the desktop and relaunch safari to see if anything happens.
If nothing then I would suggest the following.
1) Save > Backup your bookmarks
go to "~/Library/Safari/" (~ meaning home directory, user)
there is a file called Bookmarks.plist
those are your bookmarks, so you can back those up, but if you only drag the Safari.app package to the trash and EMPTY it you won't loose them or use Time Machine.
2) Delete and Download the latest Safari from Apple downloads here Apple - Downloads
3) Once you have reinstalled safari you want all your bookmarks back so Go to File > Import Bookmarks.That should allow you to import your old bookmarks. If that doesn't work for some reason, take that file and copy it over the new Bookmarks.plist. Also you could go back in time and reinstall your bookmarks from there.
As a foot note, I have FireFox loaded just in case anything happens to Safari as a backup browser.

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