When I first started Gimp in Ubuntu, I thought the program had not yet loaded because the toolbars and forms were scattered all over the place so I decided to wait 5 minutes for the program to load. After 5 minutes I realized that Gimp was like this by default and that really boiled my blood because I hate applications that run in mutliple windows. Programs should be simple and only run in one window to make life easier for noobs like us. Nevertheless, I found the solution to making Gimp run in one window on Ubuntu.

Instructions

1. Open Terminal in Ubuntu
2. Copy and paste this code: sudo apt-get install xnest metacity gimp
3. Test it in order to make sure that you have installed the package successfully by copying and pasting this code: Xnest :1 -ac -name GIMP -geometry 1024x690 & metacity --display :1 & gimp --display :1
4. And your done

That wasn't too hard, was it?

Here's how you can speed up FireFox by enabling a few options:

1.) In the address bar, type in "about:config"
2.) In the filter bar, copy and paste the following: "network.http"
3.) Change the following entries:

network.http.pipelining : True
network.http.proxy.pipelining : True
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests : 50
network.http.keep-alive.timeout : 10
network.http.max-connections : 50
network.http.max-connections-per-server : 65
network.http.request.max-start-delay : 2
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy : 30
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server : 32

That's it. :)