SAFARI SLOWING INTERNET ACCESS

I have had appalling difficulty loading webpages via my useless ISP (UK supplier 'THREE' who do not have enough bandwidth to cope with their users. They have been claiming for three months that their really, really bad coverage has been due to a fault in my local mast which they never got around to repairing - until now. They finally claim they have repaired the fault and there should be an improvement in coverage.
BUT, I see no meaningful improvement in coverage and when I found I couldn't log into banking webpages etc owing to them taking too long to load or just being dropped, I telephoned the THREE ISP.
They then went through a rigmarole of clearing out cookies on my safari browser and asking me to remove all the contents of the autofill window and telling me to install file clearing out software from HIPPO website to keep Safari from being clogged out with unwanted files because they slow down sfari and slow down webpage loading.
I am irritated at losing all the autofill info so I have to enter passwords every time I load a regular webpage and it doesn't make any sense that using autofill makes your computer more and more useless at acessing the internet
Is this correct ? Do cookies and autofill items slow down webpage loading ?
Or is all this a load of rubbish for them to try and con me into accepting they have improved their coverage so they can start billing me again ?
Does Safari need clearing out because it gradually slows down internet access ?

Just out of curiosity, does this problem only occur immediately following a re-boot?
The next time you encounter the problem, close Safari, launch IE, access a website, launch Safari and then see if you can access the net from Safari.
The problem you described has occured to me a couple of times on XP - only after a reboot. If I launch IE, then go back to Safari, it runs just fine. Still tinkering with it to try to track down more specifics.

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