Safari hangs (spinning ball) 5 seconds after opening. Help?

[tbgsav]

I have exhausted my knowledge, time for some community help

I have a Macbook Pro 10.5.8 with Safari 5.0.5. Everything except the issue works great!

Problem:

When I click to open Safari, it opens, loads the startpage and then hangs about 5 seconds later. The whole computer isn't usable until I force quit Safari.
Every 15 seconds or so it returns to 'normal' and I can click a menu, switch applications, try to Force Quit Safari, but the spinning ball returns and everything hangs 2 seconds later.
I can use Firefox with no issues, unless Safari is still open.

What I have tried:

Inplace reinstall of OS X from CD.
All the Software Updates
Reinstall Safari from apple website.
Reset Safari
Empty Cache
Everything from this post (https://discussions.apple.com/message/10671044#10671044)
Everything from this post (https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/8413681/)


All to no avail, still same issue.
Any help or ideas?

Thanks!
-tbgsav

 

[spidey3]

Are there any errors in /var/log/system.log or in /var/log/kernel.log when the problem occurs?

What do you have in /Library/Internet Plugins? I have seen hangs like this from faulty / old plugins...

 

[tbgsav]

Are there any errors in /var/log/system.log or in /var/log/kernel.log when the problem occurs?

What do you have in /Library/Internet Plugins? I have seen hangs like this from faulty / old plugins...

I have removed that plugin folder all to together.

Update: Still no luck under the current user. I created a test admin account and Safari works fine under the new account. Is there a way to bring the clean/working/new Safari setting/info to my old account?

Checking the log files now...

 

[spidey3]

Is there a way to bring the clean/working/new Safari setting/info to my old account?

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
​

Note: You will lose all of your bookmarks, RSS subscriptions, etc...

Spidey!!!

 

[tbgsav]

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
​

Note: You will lose all of your bookmarks, RSS subscriptions, etc...

Spidey!!!

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!