Safari Help?

[here_be_dragons]

Does anyone else out there use Safari as your main browser? For the past couple of weeks, it's developed a problem that is REALLY annoying. Frequently (as in a few times a day), it stops responding and I have to force quit (losing all my open tabs, of course). Yes. Annoying. Plus, it's just gotten really SLOW. Sometimes, anyway; other times it's fine. I never had trouble with it before . . . it's worked fine for YEARS. So what changed? My software is up to date; I've tried repairing permissions and this hasn't helped. I'm not sure what to do, but this is driving me bonkers. Has anyone else had this problem?

A real update soon - Connor and I had a terrific day yesterday (well, most of the good stuff happened in the evening). I have pictures, too. :D