Comments on: Why my new favorite web browser is FLOCK http://www.asktheadmin.com/2008/04/why-my-new-favorite-web-browser-is.html Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:08:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Satyendra Shah http://www.asktheadmin.com/2008/04/why-my-new-favorite-web-browser-is.html/comment-page-1#comment-14346 Satyendra Shah Mon, 25 Apr 2011 07:44:18 +0000 http://ata.bansal-inc.com/?p=758#comment-14346 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 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

]]> By: tanya25m http://www.asktheadmin.com/2008/04/why-my-new-favorite-web-browser-is.html/comment-page-1#comment-6361 tanya25m Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:32:37 +0000 http://ata.bansal-inc.com/?p=758#comment-6361 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 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.

]]> By: Anon http://www.asktheadmin.com/2008/04/why-my-new-favorite-web-browser-is.html/comment-page-1#comment-6360 Anon Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:20:36 +0000 http://ata.bansal-inc.com/?p=758#comment-6360 Flock, of sheep, perhaps? <br /> <br /> If you need a whole new browser to keep up with 'networking', then it's probably gone too far. Flock, of sheep, perhaps?

If you need a whole new browser to keep up with 'networking', then it's probably gone too far.

]]> By: L0R3N http://www.asktheadmin.com/2008/04/why-my-new-favorite-web-browser-is.html/comment-page-1#comment-1739 L0R3N Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:48:00 +0000 http://ata.bansal-inc.com/?p=758#comment-1739 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. 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.

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