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Flock — The web browser for you and your friends
One of my friends recently took a position at Flock. He showed me their browser and I decided to try it. After about 1 week, I have pretty much switched to using it as my primary web browser both at home and at work. Flock is based on the Firefox browser which I was already using and so the transition was easy. Almost all the extensions I use are available for Flock with the exception of Colorful Tabs which I miss. You have to re-download your extensions because Flock cannot import them from your Firefox installation. Some nice things that Flock adds are the photo, newsreader and blogging integrations. I like the way you can see Flickr photos from within the browser and it includes an uploading client as well. I exported my OPML file from Newsgator and the integrated RSS reader in Flock was able to import it without any problem. I am enjoying the integrated RSS reader better than what I had a Newsgator. Flock is only at version 0 .7 so I’m sure there’s a lot more that they are planning to add to it. I could go on about all the cool things I discovered about it and some of the minor annoyances it’s just easier if you try yourself. This is a cool product and it’s free of course.
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July 27th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
Hey Vidal,
Glad to hear you’re digging Flock. I’ve asked our support guys to test and upload (if it works) the Colorful Tabs extension to our catalog. I’ll be sure to let you know how it goes.
Btw, I got a chuckle from your Flickr stream. I think there is a picture of me as a kid that’s almost exactly the same as this one:
Cheers,
Will Pate
Community Ambassador, Flock
July 28th, 2006 at 11:10 am
Thanks. I am also having an issue with the del.icio.us extension. The version for Flock is at 0.6.1 but the Firefox version is at 1.1. What version of Firefox is Flock based on BTW? Vidal.
July 28th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
Hey Vidal. Flock is currently based on FF 1.5 (and a day or so behind its patches). The current version of Flock is 0.7.3 (and will soon be 0.7.4 when we get the latest FF patch). We haven’t automatically updated 0.7.1 users yet but we plan to do that early next week. We have done some generic bug fixing to the extensions manager but I’m not sure if will fix the del.icio.us extension.