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Hadn't noticed any speed issues myself and I haven't gotten any emails from IB - and they are usually pretty quick to give me a heads up as to trouble.
I gave up running Firefox a while ago because I noticed this forum (as well as all the other IB forums) runs a LOT faster on Chrome. I also use Ad Blocker so it's pretty quick...