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OK, I decided to do some pre- and post-update "benchmarks". Note: I have adblock plus installed, so that could affect my results.

Pre-update:
Time from clicking "GMail" in bookmarks to gmail loaded:
1 minute, 11 seconds

Javascript benchmark test (http://celtickane.com/projects/jsspeed.php):
Try/Catch with errors: 1547 ms
Layer movement: 5361 ms
Random number engine: 5809 ms
Math engine: 8973 ms
DOM speed: 7003 ms
Array functions: 614 ms
String functions: 279 ms
Ajax declaration: 1578 ms
Total Duration: 31164 ms

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Post-update:
(Note: components listed Adblock plus as enabled, but I didn't get the button in the lower right hand corner, so it's hard to say -- some of these results could be skewed by that -- also, visiting sites with ads that used to be blocked, the ads showed up, so adblock plus did NOT seem to be loaded... sorry guys, should have forseen that)
Time from clicking "GMail" in bookmarks to gmail loaded:
46 seconds

Javascript benchmark test (http://celtickane.com/projects/jsspeed.php):
Try/Catch with errors: 1606 ms (+59 ms)
Layer movement: 5842 ms (+481 ms)
Random number engine: 5038 ms (-771 ms)
Math engine: 8689 ms (-284 ms)
DOM speed: 5530 ms (-1473 ms)
Array functions: 784 ms (+ 170 ms)
String functions: 679 ms (+ 400 ms)
Ajax declaration: 1882 ms (+ 304 ms)
Total Duration: 30050 ms (- 1114 ms)

Overall, the results are pretty over the board. The most drastic change seemed to be in loading gmail (could be a result of adblock plus), and DOM speed (down almost 1.5 seconds!). However, I would say that there does seem to be a general speed improvement. However, I just tried to visit digg and the browser crashed.

Digg seems to work here. However, it doesn't scroll so well. It never did.

EDIT:

With the browser cache set to 4MB, I get these numbers:
Try/Catch with errors: 1521 ms
Layer movement: 5311 ms
Random number engine: 5483 ms
Math engine: 8992 ms
DOM speed: 4742 ms
Array functions: 973 ms
String functions: 288 ms
Ajax declaration: 1886 ms
Total Duration: 29196 ms

EDIT2:
The numbers are very inconsistent in that bench.

Try Google Calendar and Reader please? I tink those ones are usually heavy and slow down the normal microb.

Google Calendar is still kinda slow compared to the desktop, but very usable.

Google Reader works very well now, but.....there is some screen tearing/artifacting after scrolling. if I can remember correctly, I stopped using GR in the past because of lag, but it is totally enjoyable now.

Over all I'm willing to say.... Thanks!.... IMHO Nokia has missed the boat on supplying updates to this app through normal means ... or at least in the last flash update to 2008. Thank you for filling in the gap.

Only thing that doesn't feel snappier is for me at least. The startup. Does anyone know why it takes so bloody long for the home.html page to load? Or what it is that it's updating every time it starts?

Again though qwerty12 ... thanks! Admittedly though ... I'll miss adblock. But the update is worth it.

Such are the pitfalls of bundling applications.

"Updating" is a misnomer, it's actually loading the engine and plugins.

Surely you mean Navi?

Probably because they dropped the maemo-invoker approach. That's why Opera is starting faster. Don't know why they did it though.

I do ... I didn't ...

It was covered somewhere or the other. I don't recall the reasons, but I recall them sounding like good ones.