Well, we're getting somewhere.

The Wunderground tech gave me a free "no ads" upgrade, because he had a feeling that something in the ads was at the root of my issue...causing a memory leak, and the issue has, in fact, been resolved (with the side benefit of fewer trackers smile ).

I suspect that the tech could not replicate my issue because while his legacy installation is running OS X 10.6.x it is also running Safari 4.0.3, which differs radically from Safari 5.x. I've tried to get him to upgrade his Safari installation (in a clone, at the least), and I'm waiting to see what happens.

Edit: I forgot to mention that the ads were apparently at the root of my issue despite the fact that I had AdBlock blocking them. confused

Last edited by artie505; 02/23/13 12:18 AM.
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