"many hours" - Actually, it's more on the order of weeks. The world (in terms of your movement speed) is roughly the size of Great Britain. But I agree completely. Daggerfall surpassed both Morrowind and Oblivion in creating a living world. All the little "countries" had their own cultures, with their own holidays, etc.

I played SS2 cooperatively with my brother just a couple years ago, and it seemed to work fine on Win2K & XP. Vista and 7 would probably be a bit of work, tho'...

I never got a chance to test this, but according to Google, until you post your first "buzz", none of that information is live. Supposedly it fills in your followers and what not, but nobody can see any additional information about you until you actually go in and type "hey i'm using buzz LOL" and hit post. Again, that was how I understood the setup; I don't know if it's true.

Not just the UI (and extensions), but much of FF internals, too. Firefox is essentially a collection of libraries, written in C++, tied together with a lot of Javascript.