Flock - The Coolest Browser on the Street
June 21, 2006
I've been running Flock for the last couple days - and have fallen totally in love with it. Their latest browser release, built on the FireFox engine brings home some kick-ass Web 2.0 style features and a wonderful user experience to boot!
I've been looking out for a nice RSS feed reader for awhile and have used the Sage extension for FireFox to get the job done in the meantime. While it works, it doesn't really look that great - and it's hard to get an overview. Flock's (by contrast) built-in feed reader looks gorgeous and behaves like a doll to boot! It has options for marking all feeds read once you've visited their "feed" page, sorting into collections, and a main page for viewing summaries of all of your feeds. It's really quite nice.
I also enjoy Flock's bookmark handling. Rather than a nested collection of folders, it breaks everything down into individual "collections" or categories. You can access all of your bookmarks on a central "library" list, so if you know you've got the link to Whowhatsit's Widget Farm somewhere - you can find it.
Flock also has a wonderful "livesearch" function. When you begin typing in the search bar, it begins suggesting results from Yahoo. While I don't like Yahoo, it's really keen to get results instantly. Everything is configurable, of course - so while you may have to use Yahoo's livesearch - you can still submit your search to google.
aDid I mention the UI? Flock's theme is one of the best I've seen in awhile. It's clean, modern, and has just the right amount of color. It's great. Among the UI changes instituted, are individual close buttons for each of the tabs. I really got spoiled in Safari, and hate that Firefox hasn't added them yet. It makes being sure you're closing the right Window a cinch.
So if you've got a moment, and want to try some cool new software - check out Flock. Don't be scared by the "beta" warning. I haven't had one crash or unexpected behavior.
As a side note, I really need to cleanup my image code. It's terrible. I apologize that these don't look that great.
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