Safari Slowdown...what's going on?

In the last week or so, Safari has slowed down on my PowerBook considerably. It's not my signal...that's at full strength and I'm 8 feet away from my router. I've tried clearing the cache and resetting safari as well. My Windows desktop in the next room has no problems what-so-ever.
Any ideas why this is happening or what I can do about it?

I had the same problem, found out I was using an older version of Safari Enhancer. Downloaded the new version of Safari Enhancer and safari started running fast again. ( i use Safari Enhancer to turn off the cache as with a fast internet connection it takes more time to look at the cache and see if the web page has changed, with it off it just loads the page.
hope this helps!
mike

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