Spinning Ball from Safari after Wakeup

Hi,
I have a 15" Macbook Pro 2 GHz Intel Core i7 with upgraded ram to 8 GB and a 120 GB SSD. Upon wakeup after putting my macbook to sleep, Safari will stall with a spinning beach ball for what seems like half a minute. It appears to be the only app doing this and I can sometimes launch and hit a page with Firefox in the time it takes the beach ball to go away in Safari. This did not happen in my previous five year old 15" MBP with an Intel Core Duo that was using the same SSD.
This is highly annoying. Any advice how to remedy the issue?
Thanks.

Here's what finally worked for me:
Try shutting down Safari, then delete the following:
/Users/<user>/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari
/Users/<user>/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari
/Users/<user>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist
/Users/<user>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.RSS.plist
/Users/<user>/Library/Safari
Well, I swore I did all those, maybe except the "/Users/<user>/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari" one, but all is well now! Browsing great. Thanks!

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