What's the likely cause of crashes that occur when closing webpages?

I am experiencing frequent crashes in Safari -- almost always they occur when I try to close a webpage.
After I click on 'Close,' for a few seconds nothing at all happens. Then the spinning beach ball appears on-screen.
Inevitably, the beach ball doesn't disappear and I have to 'force quit.'
Is there any information on what lies behind this particular type of crash in Safari?
Thanks. Replies appreciated.

It looks like Safari doesn't have enough permissions
for a folder to write to. Try to open disk-utility
and use the Repair-permission option on your local
disk. This may fix the problem.
Thanks but that was recommended recently in relation to an earlier set of crashes that may have been related to an outdated Flash plugin (since updated). I went through the 'repair permissions' process and initially it seemed to have worked. Maybe it did work, but not to prevent these other crashes, which appear to be from a different source (e.g., the first crashes shut Safari down instantaneously and put me back on the Desktop, no spinning beach ball, prompt for 'crash report' to be sent to Apple, etc. -- not so with this latest set of crashes).
Assuming repairing permissions isn't something you normally have to do on an ongoing basis in order to keep Safari running properly, I'm guessing it shouldn't be required so soon again.

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