Spin, spin, cursor

File this post under 'Complaints': Safari just loves to give me the spinning pizza of death. That little maddeningly rainbow ball will have me fuming for several seconds when I have multiple tabs open and perform almost any action:
opening a new tab, clicking into a text box in a form, even just plain scrolling are all susceptible.

There is a fix that supposedly helps which involves deleting the favicons cache (favicons are those cute little 16x16 pixel images to the left of the URL in the Address bar). Trouble is, a) I have to quit and restart Safari to perform this trick, which sucks when I have several windows with multiple tabs open (all of which I have so the best intentions of returning to... eventually...), and b) It doesn't *really* help,
or help for long. Soon enough, Safari is up to its old beachball tricks once again, and I'm left fuming.

Is it just me? Do I simply have to curb my 18-gazillion tabs at once browsing habits? I see this behavior even with only a couple of windows and a few tabs each open, though. And the solution for me isn't 'Use Firefox' – I already do use Firefox for specific functions and I need to use (at least) two browsers concurrently for my purposes (I use Camino often, also.). Does anyone know of any tricks other than the favicons cache trick to help me in my Safari sorrow, or is this just the nature of the beast? Thanks in advance!!

UPDATE: Thanks a million to Laurie, who tipped me and other beachball-sufferers off to the happy solution: go to Safari's AutoFill preferences and uncheck "other forms." Yayyyyy!