Review: New Web Browser - Flock 1.2.1
Maria Reyes-McDavis, the Web Success Diva, caught my eye with a Tweet about a browser called Flock. I had never heard of it but I have rapidly tired of IE7 as my browser.
I went to IE7 when Netscape announced it was folding its browser. Since Firefox 3.0 was coming out, and did get released to a huge (8 million downloads plus) audience, I was leaning towards it.
I checked out the Diva’s post, and from there went to Flock’s website.
Flock introduces itself as “the social web browser”. Built on the open source Mozilla platform, it incorporates logged in access to many social networking sites. For now, I’m up on Twitter, Facebook, Gmail and Flickr.
Internet users spend a lot of time going from one site to the next, keeping up with a variety of friends and interests. Flock pulls all of your favorite people, places and content together in a convenient view and delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users are more easily connected to what’s important to them.
Right now the best thing, of many, that I have noticed is that all of the annoying glitches with using the WordPress dashboard to post to ANSJ seem to have resolved. Flock seems to have a lot less problems with javascript and java apps than IE7 did.
And, pages, all sorts of pages, load faster.
I’m typing this and Flock is spell checking my work. I know, there are other ways to do it, but this is without me having to DO anything else.
It’s a great RSS feed reader and finds the feeds all by itself.
I don’t watch a lot of video, but Flock is set up to have your favorite media right at your finger tips.
And, it will serve as your e-mail client.
As a Mozilla based product, it can grow without limits. There are already a number of add-ons and I am certain that more are to come.
It’s a free download. Flock - free.
Perfect? No, it doesn’t make coffee.
I’m sure I’ll find imperfections as I learn more about this innovative web browser. But, at a point where I needed a comprehensive web browsing solution since I’m on the computer most of the day, I found Flock.
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