Firefox seems/is faster than Safari but why?

I always found Safari to be faster than Firefox. Safari 4 compared to Firefox 3.5 seems slower. Some pages take forever to respond in Safari and don't in Firefox. I also think the screen now refreshes faster in Firefox. I've looked at the specs and Safari is supposed to be much faster but I don't seem to be experiencing it as so.
Although Firefox is nicer for the Mac in its 3.5 iteration, I'm used to Safari having used it since I returned to the Mac in 2003. Also, Firefox doesn't support the same level of services as Safari. In Safari, I'm constantly using services to grab info to SOHO Notes folders.
Any idea why Safari might be performing like this.

Greetings,
The reasons behind your experience could be many, but try this to see if it improves things:
Quit Safari if it's running and open System Preferences>Network.
In the DNS Server tab, make sure IPv6 is turned off, and enter these two DNS servers to replace the ones you currently have:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
click Apply Now and quit System Preferences.
Next, do these things in order:
1. Go to Home/Library/Cookies and delete the Cookies.plist file.
2. Go to Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari and delete the contents of that folder.
3. Go to Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Web Page Previews and delete the contents of that folder.
4. If you don't want to use the Top Sites feature, open Terminal and paste in this command:
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSnapshotsUpdatePolicy -int 2
5. Go to Home/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari and delete the contents of that folder.
6. Go to Home/Library/Caches/Safari and delete the contents of that folder.
7. Go to Home/Library/Safari and delete these files (if you have them):
Downloads.plist
History.plist
Form Values
LastSession.plist
WebpageIcons.db
Repair Disk Permissions, then restart Safari and see if the speed is improved.

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Greetings,
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Quit Safari if it's running and open System Preferences>Network.
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Downloads.plist
History.plist
Form Values
LastSession.plist
WebpageIcons.db
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