Flock Review
I recently installed Flock, the hottest new browser. It appears to be a version of Firefox with tools added for blogging, uploading photos, etc. The first thing I did after loading flock was tell it about my blog. Painless and easy. After logging in, I put a test post up, which was a piece of cake.
I try saving a blog post as a draft, and re-opening it. It’s a little annoying there isn’t a quicker way to open a draft - plus it opens a draft in a new window, so you have to close your old editing window. Also, it would nice if you could access drafts in Wordpress, apparently they are only saved offline.
Step 2 - see how flock integrates with del.icio.us, where I keep all my bookmarks. I need to log out and log back in to get all the features. When I do that, I am sad to report the integration is not nearly as nice as Yahoo’s del.icio.us plugin. Though it seems to be a bit faster.
I went to install Yahoo’s plugin, and went through the warnings - this is a firefox plugin, it might not work with Flock, etc. But it installed ok. The only problem was- none of my links were showing up in the sidebar. I was considering writing off Flock at this point (I use that plugin that much) when out of nowhere, it just started working. Firebug works, too, so that covers all my must-have extensions.
At this point I notice the search bar in the upper right hand corder defaults to Yahoo, not Google. What is more, any search you do, it will automatically put Yahoo search results in a drop down. It shows recently searched and visited results as well, but it does not do Auto Suggest, which I use constantly in firefox.
Unlike a lot of hipster techies, I don’t do photography, so I can’t really comment on the flickr tools, other than to say they look spiffy.
Overall, it seems to run a lot faster than firefox on my system, though strangely enough, it leaves a bigger memory footprint. I think I’ll try it out for the next few weeks and see how it goes.
Blogged with Flock