Safari slower and takes 6 seconds to access bookmarks

After updating to mountain lion, Safari is not only slower, but when I launch it, it takes six seconds for me to be able to see my bookmarks after clicking on a folder in the bar. Then the first link I click on a link causes a spinning beachball fro a while, without the URL loading. After the beachball has stopped I can hit enter and everything then works fine.

That's definitely not normal.  Safari is much faster in ML than in Lion for me.  I would empty Safari's cache, which in Mountain Lion is done through the Develop menu.  (If you don't have the Develop menu, go to the Advanced pane in Safari's preferences and check the box to show it.)
If that doesn't fix it, try resetting Safari, using the Reset Safari item in the Safari menu.
If it's still borked after that, quit Safari and go to the Finder and go to /Users/yourusername/Library/Caches.  In that folder, find and delete the com.apple.Safari folder, then re-open Safari.
One last thing to try is to remove any Safari extensions.  Go to the Extensions pane in Safari's preferences and disable everything there (uncheck the "Enable whatever" button for each item).

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