I was a hard core Netscape user before the days of FireFox and before that I was all about IE4 . (Sorry for the re-run but Kayla didn’t let us sleep this weekend!) So I have realized change is good and you live and you learn. So when I heard about Flock, I decided to give it a go. For you Face-bookers. Flickr’ers and Bloggers you can take advantage of the built in blog editor, Facebook galore in your sidebar and the ability to view yours and your friends photo streams right from Flock. Its neat, has a cool GUI. Flock is Fire Fox like but quicker and customized for what I do. I really dig it so far.
Oh did I mention it not only uses existing Firefox plugins but has its own as well??
This truly is the social web browser. There are downfalls to parts of it like no image uploading using their blogger interface but hey, this is only a beta. It does show integration with the top blogging software and has lots of new stuff I will be exploring throughout the week. If you want to give Flock a try you can grab it here.
From their website:
Flock is a social web browser based on the open source project Mozilla. It can be called a social browser, because of its tight integration with many social networking and social media services. Changing the purpose of a browser from a non-integrated window into the web to a more participatory portal to your favorite interactive sites, Flock seeks to gain significant market share by bringing your favorite social applications one step closer.
With Flock users can do many community involved activities such as uploading photos directly to Photobucket and Flickr, accessing news aggregation services, or using blogging tools. A full list of social media/networking extensions for Flock can be found here.
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I’ve been using Flock for about a year now. I love it, especially on my pc. Firefox on vista is really buggy, but flock works perfectly.
Flock, of sheep, perhaps?
If you need a whole new browser to keep up with 'networking', then it's probably gone too far.
I've been using Flock since version 0.7. However, about the Firefox plugins, I did try to install a few of them, without success. But yes, it is a lot faster and the earlier versions were 'lighter' than Firefox.
I’ve use IE, firefox, google chrome, opera, safari, seamonkey but I liked flock the most. In fact I was very much comfortable after using flock and was 100% stablized after using it. I was not satisfied with anyone of the browsers except flock. I never used its social networking capabilities, I liked its other general features of a web browsers. But very sadly after using it for almost 4 months now I came to know that it is being discontinued.
When I compare browsers I consider some points as below.
1. How tabs open and look on the screen. Tab preferences, how tabs open in which order.
2. How Asian fonts are shown, specifically Hindi font.
3. How does the Tabs, toolbars and menu look on the screen. How much space they consume. How much actual space is left for the website to be viewed.
4. How much they use CPU and memory when using multiple tabs. Browsers using too much CPU and memory tend to hang and slow down your computer.
5. How they present websites, GUI, their ratio, balance of a webpage being shown.
6. Any other problems if present.
IE = Very Slow, creepy, hangs.
Firefox = Eats up CPU, very raw look n feel. Almost dead or hangs if left idle for some time.
Chrome = Good GUI, Eats up CPU, almost hangs or becomes almost dead when too many tabs
are open.
Opera = Good GUI, but some asian fonts are not shown correctly/totally wrong, captcha image
not shown for many sites, irritates.
Safary = Very Good GUI, but asian fonts shown are wrong.Again captcha image problem with some sites, Not very impressive when shows some site like google etc as it tends to show Google image very large extended with space on the screen seems unbalanced a lot.
Seamonkey = Raw look, less space on the screen
Maxthone etc. = Not good almost like IE in behaviour as they use IE’s engine.
Flock = Initially takes time to load first time, after that it works like a breeze, Comfortable GUI,
No problem with asian fonts, many tabs open but still works very fine. tab preferences are very good, no problem with captacha images etc. Couldn’t find any problem with it. Except I wanted it to provide some sort of option to hide main menu. Complete browser for me. but sadly is being discontinued..
Initial load time for Google chrome, IE, Opera, Safari is good, that means they are fast to load initially.
For comparing web page balance, (a technical term discovered by myself just now) open http://www.google.com in all these web browsers, and u’ll notice the difference, some browsers will show the characters/image Google which seems to occupy a lot of space, some seems to crumble it.
Google chrome takes too much memory and makes your system almost dead if you use too many tabs.
I found flock the best. But now when flock is being discontinued, I’m again in a delima to look for some other browser.
Satyendra Shah