Speeding up Safari in Snow Leopard - My Work-Around

Safari in Snow Leopard frequently stalls with the 'Spinning Pizza' cursor and 'hang' what seems an age before it starts to load a page. This rapidly gets infuriating. One way I have found to improve things is to specify the DNS servers in the System Preferences Network settings.
I have a BT HomeHub wireless router. By Default the System Preferences Network settings look to the router to get the DNS servers. The following step-by-step method gives the servers specified in the router directly to System Preferences Network settings. I don't know if BT changes these from time to time but if I delete the numbers I added, Network settings defaults back to looking to the router for the DNS server addresses.
Note: To do this I needed to use Firefox. Safari does not work with the Advanced settings of BT HomeHub.
01. In Firefox: Go to the URL bthomehub.home
You may need to load in with admin and the correct  password.

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