Safari Temporarily Freezes Every Time I Enter Content

Question

Every time I visit a website and enter information into a form, my the application freezes after the page is submitted. This happens every time, on every website, even something as simple as Google. The page loads quickly, I enter my search query and hit enter, the next page loads just fine... And then as soon as I try to do anything with the application, I get the spinning beachball of death.
I've looked through similar posts already and have tried the following:
emptied the cache
cleared out my cookies
cleared the history
deleted the icons in the library folder
restarted the computer
I've checked the memory usage in Activity Monitor (I know Safari can be a memory hog) but I've always had plenty of spare real and virtual memory. Making all those changes only helped in the tiniest bit - the delay is still there, but it was only maybe half as long (15-20 seconds, instead of 30-45).
If you've got any idea what else I can try, I'd love to hear it. I'm encountering the same exact problem on my other computer, an iBook G4 running the same OS with even more memory and HD space, but it's not nearly as bad there.
iBook G3   Mac OS X (10.3.9)   700 MHz, 640 MB SDRAM, 30 GB HD

Answer 1

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Go to Safari Preferences>AutoFill.
First, uncheck the Other Forms box, and go back to one of the web sites with a form. Enter information etc. (you'll have to do it manually) and see if performance improves. If it does, the Other Forms file is corrupted to some degree. You can reselect "Other Forms", then select "edit" and remove specific web sites, or clear the entire file and begin over.
Some prefer to uncheck this option as the file can be problematic. Myself, i prefer Safari fill in the information. I haven't experienced any problems with the file.