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I have been trying for about a month now. And I am stuck to it. What I liked: 1. Blogging support - I am making this blog entry from within Flock. Also there is Technorati publishing support and al...

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I have been trying Flock for about a month now. And I am stuck to it.

What I liked:

  1. Blogging support - I am making this blog entry from within Flock. Also there is Technorati publishing support and all that.

  2. Flickr support - you get to know if someone adds new photos and you get to see them in a neat view.

  3. Delicious support - one of my favorite features here. There is a neat sync between your local bookmarks and your delicious bookmarks. You just click on the ‘star’ next to the address bar and you get a popup where you indicate whether the bookmark should be posted to del.icio.us.

  4. An improved search bar - there is live Yahoo search, local search history and the usual search engine support.

  5. Performance - somehow seems better than Firefox. Dunno why? :| (However, see hate point 2)

  6. Web snippets - I don’t use this much, but there is a snippets bar, where you can copy snippets of your interest.

  7. News - This is where you get to manage your RSS feeds. But I don’t use this either, not better than Blogbridge. :)

What I hated:

  1. I sometimes feel they should have gone with making an extension over Firefox rather than a separate browser. Some extensions might not work in Flock. Developers have to adhere to Flock separately. This is not good.

  2. Sometimes, there is some backend process which runs for a long time and results in a ‘Unresponsive script’ warning. This stops the working of the browser for a while.

Overall, I strongly recommend Flock for people who use the utilities mentioned and were craving for integration of these.

technorati tags:web2.0, flock, browser, firefox, flickr, livejournal, technorati, tech, del.icio.us

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