Just tried it. Nothing has changed. Browsing with TOR is ~30 times slower than normal browsing. It means it takes 2-3 seconds to load google.com, and 30s-1min to load my local news page, 15min.lt. I don't know who downvoted me for stating this fact, but he either doesn't use TOR or the nodes are near his physical location.
Occasionally you get a slow path. If this happens and you're in a hurry, just press the "New Identity" button to get a new random path. It usually works.