Flock 1.1 Browser: Even a Little Cooler
A few months ago, I wrote that Flock, the social-media browser built on top of Firefox, had become my new favorite browser. It still is--and today, the Flock folks released a beta of version 1.1. It's got no earthshaking new features, but is sure worth a look if you like inventive Web tools.
The big news in this version is Webmail support: You can integrate the browser with a Gmail or Yahoo Mail account (or both), whereupon an icon lets you see new messages, create a message, or use the Webmail service to share a Web page you're on. It's useful and reasonably slick, although I wonder why Flock didn't put this functionality into its sidebar--where it gives you access to Facebook, Flickr, and other services--which would have given people even readier access to their mail, without requiring them to click the icon to see new messages.
Also new in this version is support for photo albums you create with Picaso Web Albums, Google's photo-sharing service. Just as with Flickr and other photo services, you can see your Picasa photos in Flock's Media Bar even if you're not at the site in question.
One caution before you try this beta version of Flock: It doesn't bring in Favorites and other settings from earlier versions of the brower. The Flock people say that'll be fixed in the final version.
For now, Flock remains the browser I spend most of my time in--though I return pretty frequently to Firefox (and am going to check out the beta of version 3), dabble in Safari, and use IE7 when I have to. And hey, it's been awhile since I revisited Opera, a product with numerous virtues of its own.
Isn't it nice to use the Internet in an era in which multiple browsers are viable and evolving--and you can pretty much choose the one you like best without fear that you'll miss out on anything the Web has to offer?
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I had been using Opera as my primary browser for years and a few months ago decided to try Flock. I have been using Flock as my primary browser since then.
I did not expect to like Flock enough to switch to using Flock all the time and demoting Opera to "test the Kestrel beta releases, then switch back to Flock" status, but that's what happened.
Browser enthusiasts that haven't tried Flock yet might enjoy giving the Flock beta a try.
I used IE for over 8 years and seen an add on flickr to try out FLOCK and since then I made it my default browser now too, I love it and all the fire fox add ons and stuff work inside of FLOCK. I am very pleased and I love the default skin, really I tried some others and keep coming back to the original skin. LOL. Thanks FLOCK!!! Mikey/PA
My computer is OLD...1998...so many browsers caused exception faults, pop-up errors, & slow page loading. Having said this, I had the best luck with Netscape. Since they no longer offer updates, they promoted Flock, so I tried it this week. Flock is now my new favorite browser by far! Yesterday I downloaded Flock's 1.1 Beta & am now using that.
Flock is a very well planned & designed browser. It is simple to navigate & on their Getting Started page has many useful sites explained, & easy to incorporate into your Flock browser settings!
In terms of Internet browsing / interaction trends, Flock's designers have thought of everything you'd ever want for a rich online experience. And of course It offers the very useful Favorites Toolbar, which is nice to save you most-visited sites.
I am a novice in explaining all the features in high-tech cyber jargon, but I predict it will become THE top browser of all! Try it, I'm sure you will be very pleased with it!
My computer is OLD...1998...so many browsers caused exception faults, pop-up errors, & slow page loading. Having said this, I had the best luck with Netscape. Since they no longer offer updates, they promoted Flock, so I tried it this week. Flock is now my new favorite browser by far! Yesterday I downloaded Flock's 1.1 Beta & am now using that.
Flock is a very well planned & designed browser. It is simple to navigate & on their Getting Started page has many useful sites explained, & easy to incorporate into your Flock browser settings!
In terms of Internet browsing / interaction trends, Flock's designers have thought of everything you'd ever want for a rich online experience. And of course It offers the very useful Favorites Toolbar, which is nice to save you most-visited sites.
I am a novice in explaining all the features in high-tech cyber jargon, but I predict it will become THE top browser of all! Try it, I'm sure you will be very pleased with it! Thanks! tbrnet2b ;)