Firefox 3 - slow?

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I love firefox, and as soon as 3 came out i switched from safari... however, i do find the app to be very slow at times and resource hungry...

an example is lightbox animations (you know on websites where you click an image and the screen fades and the box grows to display the full size one) - well on safari these are fast and fluid, on ff they are juddery and slow...

also i get beach balls, for example i might click bookmarks and it'll take 2-3 seconds to register... similar delays on typing stuff, when i started this post for example i wrote the words "I love firefox" but they didn't appear until a bit later then it all caught up...

I have none of these issues in safari, however safari doesn't have firebug, web developer toolbar and all the other tasty things that come in very useful...

what do other people think?
 
Maybe its just got too many features or something... they should have made FF3 really lightweight and if you wanted specific features add them yourself through plugins, I'd like to think it'll improve but I can't see them speeding it up realistically its probably a case of waiting until FF4 :(
 
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