Safari slow to open as application(not web speed)

I get the beach ball for about 45 seconds when opening safari, once it's opened web speeds are fine but the initial startup lags and sometimes gives me a frozen screen. What could be the problem? I've reset safari and emptied cache in terminal. thanks people.

I had problems with my Safari as well, it was about the same issue that you're talking about, where it took a long time to open but actual web surfing wasn't affected.
After that happened for awhile no window would pop up (I had to go to go to my bookmarks to get anywhere) and there was no address bar on anything in Safari, as it turned out my harddrive was failing. So I would say be safe and back everything up and if it gets worse, go take it in for somebody to see. I hope that isn't what's going on, but if it is, it's better to catch it now rather than later.

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