Safari not working right/very slow/freezing

I have been experiencing this issue on and off for a couple weeks. Safari (v3.2.1) would "hang" but otherwise appear to work (activity within the page, for example.) Would not "quit." Required "force quit" and restart.

Then I discovered that I could still get general communication by opening a new Tab... Don't know if this is of any help, but it is working so far for me. Much easier than updating to 10.5.8 over dial-up!

I have found that removing Flash completely using the Flash uninstaller stopped the hang and crashes. Click for Flash did not help, I still got stalls and crashes.

Besides the 0-Day exploit, there is something going on with Adobe. Maybe they are ****** off that Apple will not port Flash to the iPhone thus deploying buggy Flash Players to Macs.

Flash Player currently is a Big Piece of S#$T. It even spikes my Windose IBM Thinkpad. I hope they fix it but I really do not miss it.

It is interesting to note since Adobe purchased Macromedia, they really screwed everything up. I am concern since most of the new development is by persons of foreign decent, ( India ) are we really getting what we payed for? Are there bugs and malware installed, hence the 0-Day exploit.

http://blog.fireeye.com/research/2009/07/who-is-exploiting-the-adobe-flash-0day- part-2.html

I'll just view sites that are non-Flash designed and recommend to all my clients that they do the same until Adobe cleans up their bloated, broken code.

Ed

It just started with me as well. It's only happening when I reestablish my connection with the AirPort.

Found it there and removed to Trash. Another post said to uninstall Flash but the installer I found in my Downloads from Nov. does not offer a uninstall option.

Google flash uninstaller, you can also find it on the adobe website.

Of course, you Google everything these days. Thanks.

It appears that Trashing Flash has solved the problem. However, when I tried to view "V" on HULU it wouldn't play because it asked for Flash Player to view. Thanks for all the helpful posts.

I've been experiencing the same issue, slow, and creeping CPU usage, until it climbs well above 100%, and I'm also now experiencing the same with Firefox.
I use "click to flash", which has been a helpful compromise, as I can't imagine surfing & doing what I do online, with no flash player. We certainly should be able to run Apple's own browser, on Apple machines, and be able to use flash, without hogging up all the memory...

I finally solved the problem by reinstalling system software.

Things run much more smoothly now.