Safari window freezing

After installing Lion on an older MBP with 2GB memory, which my wife likes to use to play non-action games among other things, the Safari window freezes from time to time loosing everything entered.  It does not seem to be any particular web page or any other noticable pattern.  Safari itself has not frozen, as one can open a new window.  She does not use tabs.  This did not happen with Snow Leopard.  Any ideas?

The culrpit could be a third party Safari add on that was compatible with Snow Leopard and the prior version of Safari.
Troubleshooting help here > 
Safari: Unsupported third-party add-ons may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit or have performance issues

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