Safari, what is wrong with you?

There's something wrong with Apple's native OS X browser, Safari. Mainly, it's being a slow piece of shit. Websites are taking forever to load and it's eating into my system resources big time. Right now I'm using Firefox and it's running amazingly smooth. I think I read somewhere that the current version of Safari has a 10-second timeout on Javascripts, and the new version shipping with Leopard only has a 1 or 3-second timeout. I doubt this will really enhance the performance, though. I think they just need to focus on decreasing the suckiness factor.