Flock
Well, I’ve downloaded the new browser Flock, and I have to say I am enjoying it. If you’ve never heard of Flock, here’s a quick description:
We started Flock to build tools that empower people and smooth out some of the more hairy parts of living and working online. As it is, we live and breathe this stuff everyday and wanted better tools to do the things that we love doing online.
Basically, it’s Firefox on steroids.
I really like the way that the favourites sync with del.icio.us is cool, and the blogging feature is handy. I am actually using it right now. The fact that you can add fav’s to your del.icio.us by clicking the star is very cool, too.
I do have a few beefs, however. The del.icio.us integration isn’t perfect by any means. Only some of your fav’s sync, so when you come across a site you added to del.icio.us before you had Flock, Flock won’t recognize it as already added. The blogging feature allows tags, but they are just technorati tags, so I can’t use it to tag my posts - I have to do that after the fact in WordPress.
Also, when I upgraded from one version of Flock to the next, a lot of my favourites were removed from the collections they were in. The fact that you can’t middle click on the links in the collections to open the link in a new tab really, really bugs me. That is a feature that I use all the time in Firefox. Thankfully you can still middle click when browsing a page.
I think that Flock has potential, but could also go very wrong if not taken care of. Hopefully the people there will listen to the input of the people, as I emailed them earlier today.
If you haven’t tried out Flock yet, go download it. It’s still in beta, but it’s fun.