>>Didn't even know there was a rule about that. This "what would xxx do" is ubiquitous here.
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>Ubiquitous where? VB?

US. Being a telecommu..., ahem, telecommuter I hear much more from the tiny people in the radio than from my neighbors.

>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.

Sounds like a similar mistake that pretty much all Hungarians make sooner or later, when speaking Serbian. They make a sentence with "da bi bilo" (so that it would be) when actually wanting it to mean "kad bi bilo" (if it would be).

>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.

IE7 - wasn't impressed by the list of features, didn't even try. Sounds like too little, too late.

Well, three things are missing:
- AdBlock
- wheel click on a link to open it in a new tab
- mouse gesture to open a new tab

And things that may be nice to have:
- opening page source in a syntax coloring viewer, not notepad
- being able to view source for selection only
- easy config

>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.

I still feel that from time to time, when I have to remotely control a machine where there is on Total Commander, Mozilla and not even VFP, so I have to dance with my mouse around just to be able to copy a file from one place to another.