The great safari slow down.

For three days now safari has been very very slow to load webpages. When I type in the URL safari connects to the site and then can take 2-4 mins to load. Say I try www.bbc.co.uk it will take two mins for the home page to load.
If I switch to Firefox all websites load quickly so I know its not an issue with my dsl connection.
Pings and traceroutes to sites come back fine and responses are good.
Its just when I use safari.
I have emptied cache and history.
Restarted (many times in the last three days)
Reset my dsl router.
Checked cables
Turned off the built in 10.4.2 firewall.
Any Ideas ?

This is a wide-spread issue. Just check out all of the posts in this forum that relate to Safari slowing down, crashing, etc., etc.
I've been having the same problem for about 1 week or more. Tried all the things that you tried, including trashing Safari and reinstalling. I suspect that it has to do with a liveupdate of Safari software that occurred shortly before the problems began. I also tried trashing Safari again and reinstalling the older version. Didn't work.
The info I've read seems to indicate that the problem affects more than the Safari application itself; the installation may add components to the OS also. This would appear to mean that the problem can't be erased by just trashing the application.
This problem is affecting both Tiger and Panther. So far Apple has been silent, as far as I can tell. Meanwhile I've had to say goodbye to Safari. Unfortunate. There just aren't great substitutes for it.
Has anyone with a service support warranty (3 months) still in effect tried to call Apple support about this?
jen

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