Flock Browser
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
I realised I haven't really used my right as a blogger to write any kind of reviews of anything. I just seem to be posting stupid jokes about gay couples and spoons. lolz.
I got a new browser the other day, so decided to write something about that.
I've been listening to a lot of music over the past week, so might give you something on that later.
On to the browser review!
Over the past two weeks I have been scouring teh webz looking for a new browser.
After reading a recommendation from Stephen Fry's blog for a Mozilla made browser called 'Project Seamonkey' (which was just basically Netscape 5) and getting very annoyed that the extensions and themes designed for it never worked I went off to find something better -- and I did.
Flock Browser is a Firefox shell designed for Web 2.0 addicts everywhere.
It runs much more smoother than Firefox itself does, as well as having a plethora of useful tools for social network-a-holics built in.
You can enter in all your network details (Facebook, Flickr, Livejournal, YouTube, del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia & Twitter to name a few) and it shows all the recent updates from your contacts.in one sidebar.
You can also set up the browser to use Gmail or Yahoo as a default email and will notify you of any new messages.
Flock also has an in-browser RSS Feedreader similar to that of Safari, which is very useful.
As well as that there is also a Media uploader which uploads to places like Facebook and Flickr.
Another feature allows you to update your blog as well. Which I am using at the moment to write this very review!
Did I mention tabbed browsing yet?
As Flock was built on Firefox you can also use Themes and Addons (although as the browser is quite new not many have been developed for it) as well as use a handful of extensions originally made for Firefox.
I've only been using Flock for two days, but already I have it set as my default browser.
It's still in it's first version, and it's already very impressive.
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I got a new browser the other day, so decided to write something about that.
I've been listening to a lot of music over the past week, so might give you something on that later.
On to the browser review!
Over the past two weeks I have been scouring teh webz looking for a new browser.
After reading a recommendation from Stephen Fry's blog for a Mozilla made browser called 'Project Seamonkey' (which was just basically Netscape 5) and getting very annoyed that the extensions and themes designed for it never worked I went off to find something better -- and I did.
Flock Browser is a Firefox shell designed for Web 2.0 addicts everywhere.
It runs much more smoother than Firefox itself does, as well as having a plethora of useful tools for social network-a-holics built in.
You can enter in all your network details (Facebook, Flickr, Livejournal, YouTube, del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia & Twitter to name a few) and it shows all the recent updates from your contacts.in one sidebar.
You can also set up the browser to use Gmail or Yahoo as a default email and will notify you of any new messages.
Flock also has an in-browser RSS Feedreader similar to that of Safari, which is very useful.
As well as that there is also a Media uploader which uploads to places like Facebook and Flickr.
Another feature allows you to update your blog as well. Which I am using at the moment to write this very review!
Did I mention tabbed browsing yet?
As Flock was built on Firefox you can also use Themes and Addons (although as the browser is quite new not many have been developed for it) as well as use a handful of extensions originally made for Firefox.
I've only been using Flock for two days, but already I have it set as my default browser.
It's still in it's first version, and it's already very impressive.
Blogged with the Flock Browser
Labels: Flockbrowser, review, social networking, Web 2.0
Published by Simon Clauson at 3:11 pm.2 Comments
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Interesting, You're the first person I've heard who actually likes it.
They've had a very open development process, I remember playing with it back in 2005, when it was unusably buggy, which left a nasty taste in the mouths of many early adopters. I think it was an example of releasing too early.
I must admit I have actually gone off it now.
Susan, bless her, can't run Firefox too well.