Safari on Snow Leopard painfully slow to use in foreground.

"If you have broadband and your Safari does not load 99% of all web pages in less than 2 seconds, and the majority of them in less than one, there is something wrong with your system."
sigh OK I AM OPENING A NEW THREAD.
Even though the previous thread explained the exact same symptoms that others were experiencing. If I sound annoyed because I am.
Basically if I use safari the browser takes forever to load a page on broadband.
- It has nothing to do with DNS or any kind of network settings.
So if I pick a page like say "digg.com" with just Safari running.
- 6 seconds with browser in foreground.
- 3 seconds with browser running in background (clicked off it).
That is also nothing to do with caching issue either, because I tested this a few times with pages with/without cached pages.
Now if I have any kind of app that uses graphics running at the same time then safari basically becomes unusable in the foreground.
With Wow running window'ed, safari in the foreground to load digg.com can take a few minutes. If I try to load that same site and switch to any other app it will load the page 1-2 seconds from when I switch away from it.
Prior to snow leopard I never experienced this issue.
If the page was never in the cache to begin with then not only will it take forever to load but the browser becomes unresponsive until it does. Again switching away from the browser window (even clicking on the desktop) puts the speed back to what it once was.

Have the same problem so at least it is just not me. Was all excited when Snow Leopard came out because it was suppose to be so efficient and fast with the new Safari version according to the hype. Nottttttt! My internet never hung up with Leopard and the previous Safari and now I get the spinning wheel all of the time. Tried loading the newest Flash and this helped for a while. Shutting down and restarting seems to help for a while but it goes back to being a slug. Maybe it is because I am leaving more windows and tabs open but I still did that before. Have seen lots of possible remedies posted but it seems that Apple should get on this. Feels like I am back on dial up and yes I have tested my connection which is comcast high speed (fast on my PC) and have plenty of hard drive space available. Judging from all of the posts on here at least I am not going crazy.

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I read another post of yours:
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I wanted to revisit the thread http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2160380&tstart=0:
1. I found the tip on resolving font dupes made a world of difference--I'd forgotten how nicely pages could smooth-scroll.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2296
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Hey everyone,
I have a very strange question. I've been using my Snow Leopard without any problems for quite some time, but a few days ago I decided it was time for a clean install. I installed the Snow Leopard without any problem, used Software Update to update to the latest version, and than I started noticing some graphic problems:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3479
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(excuse me for my english)

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http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/
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(Presumably you regularly empty your Safari cache by deleting the following file:
Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/cache.db
and clear your History)
Adding Open DNS codes to your Network Preferences, should give good results in terms of speed-up as well as added security, (including anti-phishing and redirects) (Full information about Open DNS is here: http://www.opendns.com/home/nobloat ) and further independent information can be read here:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57338784-263/free-dnscrypt-tool-enhances-ma c-web-security/?tag=mncol;txt
and here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/1146064/troubleshootdns.html?t=234
If you are using a single computer: Open System Preferences/Network. Double click on your connection type, or select it in the drop-down menu, and in the box marked 'DNS Servers' add the following two numbers:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
(You can also enter them if you click on Advanced and then DNS)
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2296
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3408?viewlocale=en_US
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defaults write com.apple.safari WebKitDNSPrefetchingEnabled -boolean false
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For this and other reasons Apple switched their websites to HTML5 in January 2011:
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