My computer seems like it runs slower since upgrade.

Is it just me or has mountain lion affected the speed of my computer. I also switched to Firefox and got rid of unneeded stuff so as to clear hard drive space. Loading seems slower, everything seems a little bit slower. I know I should have more than 25 gigs available on the hard drive, but it has been that way even before the upgrade. So no change in that department.
I'm using a 2009 macbook. Can anyone think of any reason besides the hard disk space? I had only 25 gigs before the upgrade and it seemed to be running fine.

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