Mountian Lion and all the flashy animation

I just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion (10.8.1) and I have absolutely no idea why. There is so much swooshy flying around of windows and little details that are inexplicably different, performance is really slow overall. A good example is Preview, going to full screen view, all the windows underneath slide off to the side...but it's all choppy. This is just silly... Firefox as well seems to be very slow all the sudden.
Are there any tutorials on improving performance with Mountian Lion, or at least turning off some of the fancy animation?
And why does the scroll button now operate in exactly the opposite fashion: scrolling the wheel down moves window contents up, vice versa. Disorientating and baffling...
Thank you for any guidance on improving performance with "Mountain Lion."

Lion added both the full screen and natural scroll direction features you mentioned last year.  Mountain Lion simply continues to use them.
If you don't care for the scroll direction change, you can undo it in System Preferences > Trackpad > Scroll & Zoom.
If you don't care for the full screen, you don't have to use it either.  It is invoked by pressing the diagonally pointing arrows in the top right of the screen.

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