>>>I've become so accustomed to it (and to mouse gestures and AdBlock) that on the rare occasion when I'm forced to use IE I'm not only feeling not at home, but somewhat crippled as well. If I had to imagine what would would life be without some of the daily conveniences like, say, a mouse or touch-dial telephone (do everything from the command line, crank it up every time), this comes close as a level of discomfort.
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>>"...what life would be without ..."
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>>I've noticed over the last few days SEVERAL EXAMPLES that nearly all you eastern europeans transcribe the verb wrongly in such a construct
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>Didn't even know there was a rule about that. This "what would xxx do" is ubiquitous here.

Ubiquitous where? VB?

>So... is the "what would xxx" construct reserved for questions, while "what xxx would" is for conditionals?

That's right. I only tell you cos I know you're keen on language, but I've noticed Sergey, Naomi and several others say like:

"You must decide what will be your answer" rather than "You must decide what your answer will be"

It's a very subtle difference, and the 1st construct isn't exactly wrong (in fact in medieval English it might have been the norm) - it just sounds a bit stunted.

BTW, going by your recommendation for Firefox I'll certainly give it a download. OTOH, I assume you have used IE 7, with tabbed browsing and all, and are not comparing the prev version with Firefox. I can't imagine IE is THAT primitive in comparison.

Know what you mean about the bad old days of single-thread computers, no multi-tasking, etc. I cringe just when I think of not having a taskbar, in pre-95/98, which manifests itself when FP starts to "own" the taskbar, every so often, and has me minimising my other tasks so I can get back to FP, usw.