Safari - new pages "stuck"

I have a very unusual problem - several times a day, Safari (5.0.5) seems to get stuck when I click on a link. There are no spinning beach balls or any crashes - it simply seems like the internet is slow.
Quite by accident, I discovered that when I open a new window, the page becomes unstuck immediately. In the past, I waited for up to 1-2 minutes for a new website to load before discovering this "fix".
Does anyone know why this is...and if there is a more-efficient remedy? Thanks!

I came across this solution yesterday afternoon, and it seems to be working for me. <http://appletoolbox.com/2010/09/fix-safari-slowness-stalled-page-loads-by-disabl ing-dns-prefetching/>
It has to do with the DNS servers that your computer goes to for "prefetching" a page. I changed the servers that my office ISP uses (comcast) and the pages seem to load much better now.
The article says:
a variety of factors can cause Safari for Mac OS X to slowly load pages, open new tabs and windows, and perform other operations.
Apple has now posted a knowledge base article titled “Safari 5.0.1 or later: Slow or partial webpage loading, or webpage cannot be found,” which lists two potential fixes for the issue.
The first echoes our previously posted fix for the issue, switching DNS servers from those generated by your ISP to those offered by OpenDNS. To do so:
Open System Preferences and click “Network”
Select your connection method (AirPort, Ethernet, etc.)
Enter the following items in the “DNS Server” field:  208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220
Click Apply
Or you can try Google’s public DNS servers: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4."

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