FF did an update a couple of days or so after I last ran the browser benchmark test. I didn’t think anything of it because all I ever do when Update Manager presents me with a list of stuff it wants to update is check to see whether there’s a kernel update involved (that will want a reboot afterwards), or whether it’s updating video drivers (I mentally verify that I remember how to fix X in case Nvidia screws up, though they haven’t for a few years). Otherwise, I type in my password and ignore it until it’s done and I can close the window.

I noticed last night that FF seemed kind of “lazy”. Not incredibly slow, but enough that I checked Conky to see whether it (or something else, like that goddamned scrollkeeper-up I should get around to removing) was munching resources. Nope…no worse than usual. Then, I thought it might be Down Them All (getting S3 of Futurama…heh), so I waited for that to finish. No…still feels slower. Just for the hell of it, this morning, I ran the same benchmark test on 3.08 that I’d run a few days ago on 3.07. This isn’t enough of a difference that I really should be able to tell, but it is definitely slower. Interesting…I thought updates were supposed to be improvements. (Okay, not in this case; it was a security update or something).

3.0.8 in Safe Mode with a score of 298; 3.07 had scored 305.

3.0.8 running normally with all of my extensions, scoring 248. I think the update disabled a couple of themes because they were incompatible, but they weren’t any that I use, and the extensions are all the same. 3.0.7 scored 264.