Safari Woes

Okay, I gave it a chance. I've tried to run Safari as my primary browser for a while and while it actually works well, I've been having a few show stopper type issues with it. The biggest is hanging. It happens all the time. It starts to load a page and I get the spinning rainbow disk and I have to force quit it. or it just stops making network connections and I need to quit and restart. The frustrating thing is that others don't seem to have any of these problems. I haven't done anything strange that I am aware of. What a pain in the ass.