Safari stops responding almost always

Please help!
Everytime I use Safari to go to www.orbitzgames.com, it stops responding whenever I try to close the window. This happens all the time! On other occasions, Safari just gets stuck for long periods of time and eventually i have to force quit it. I tried using virus scan but that came out fine. I had at one point downloaded Limewire for songs and eventually deleted the entire software. What could be the problem?
Thank you

Hello rn:
Welcome to Apple discussions.
For future reference, there is a separate Safari forum.
That site displays properly here.
Try clearing the cache and trashing the preference file (com.apple.safari.plist) and then restarting.
Barry

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