I Flock

Look out FireFox there is a new Browser on the Flock, It has been a decent experience. It is based on Mozilla’s platform and seems to be a lot like FireFox, however it does have sone really nice features that FireFox does not have. For instance it has a built in news reader for RSS feeds. It has a photo manager which integrates with Flickr and PhotoBucket. I really like the ability to blog from anywhere as it has a built in editor for posting to your blog. You can even drag and drop pictures from any website right into your blog post. There are a few drawbacks that I see, one is the way the favorites are handled. When i went to edit my favorites and add a folder to my Toolbar Folder, it was not possible to do. You can only have single site bookmarks in the tool bar folder. The blog editor also does not allow you to specify a target when you link an image or text, i had to manually go into my blog and change all the links in this post. WHAT A HASSLE!

I think that they need to do more work on the blog editor, favorites editor and maybe beef up the plugins section as they only have 3 listed there. This browser is still new so i look froward to what they come up with next. I like the fact that i can read blogs, post to my blog, manage photo’s etc. right from within the browser. There is currently an issue with a memory leak which i read somewhere.

It is using a bit more memory than FireFox but it is using way more of the CPU on less threads, i am not sure why this is but i will be sure to watch this on future releases.

So far i have to give this browser a C due to the issues that i have found, however i am sure they will move up in the future. Is this a replacement for FireFox? It is for me (so far) but i doubt that a lot of FireFox users will migrate over unless they do blogging, photos etc. and like all of the padded features.

The image below was put there by drag & drop from the Flock website.

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