as others have pointed out, seems like a lot of unity issues, a "hot topic" new switch in the ubuntu world that has a lot of ditractors. But because its linux y

as others have pointed out, seems like a lot of unity issues, a "hot topic" new switch in the ubuntu world that has a lot of ditractors. But because its linux you can pretty much install whatever want on top, KDE or gnome and switch your GUI. Also about the shortcuts, an alternative is alt + left-arrow-key (which I like cause my hands always around the alt/ctrl keys - maybe its an emacs guy thing) see here for a complete list of firefox shortcuts (http://www.mouserunner.com/FF_Shortcuts1Printable.html http://www.mouserunner.com/FF_Shortcuts1Printable.html) for firfox, if you wanted to have multiple instances, which I'm interpreting as multiple firefox processes running, just start it from different terminals.