Dear Mozilla,
You have been my browser of choice for several years now, but it is time we part ways. Sure, you’ve got IE beat down so bad it doesn’t even seem like a browser anymore. You’ve got extensions for everything to make my web browsing easier, you’ve got a lot.
BUT you are not Flock. Flock makes browsing fun again. Tabs. Everything carried over from my mozilla settings. Sidebars for damned near everything. Works with Firefox extensions. Flock even looks good. Really good. Check the screenshot.
Media Streams are freaking awesome. Flock automatically finds all the media on a page and will display it in a slide bar at the top if you wish. Makes going through flickr or photobucket a thousand times easier.
Auto find feeds for the integrated feed reader. Which is excellent. I’ve gotten rid of Anothr all together because of this.
Syncs up with my livejournal, wordpress, flickr, youtube, del.icio.us, photobucket, and twitter. You can post to any of these from anywhere in the browser. Also supports drag and drop file sharing and uploads. Inegrated blogging interface for most sites(which I am using right now.)
Flock can be a little tricky to install on ubuntu, check out this article for help.
It’s been fun Mozilla, but we just can’t see each other anymore.
-Loki
ubuntu, phase 10
Blogged with Flock
Tags: mozilla, ubuntu, flock, computers, linux, open source, internet, browser
[edit - 11/02/07 - Added Digg This link and corrected some typos]
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As a side note these are the extensions I installed:
FLOCK
- Flockstars
- Screenshot
- Twtterbar
FIREFOX CONVERTED
- Stumbleupon
- Firefox Companion for eBay
- Jaikungfu
- LinkedIn
- Shareaholic
- ChatZilla
- Download Status Bar
- Pronto
- Smart Digg This Button
Yeah, I know, it’s kinda bloated. But I hardly ever have to use anything else.
I’ve been using Flock 1.0 for the last two days and everything worked fine until yesterday afternoon.
Several of my pages are not working properly due to JavaScript. I’ve written to Flock about it and still waiting for an answer.
Do you have similar problems?
Regards,
Omar.-
Thanks for stopping by Omar. I have not had one single error or crash out of Flock. Mozilla gave me those javascript errors all the time, but none since my switch. I hope you can get it fixed. Flock seems to have a pretty active community, you might want to try the IRC channel.
can’t login to some sites
other than that I love it
@david, what kind of login problems are you having? the biggest problem I have is that it wants me to register my wordpress account everytime I go to a wordpress site, but it is already registered. I blog from Flock to wordpress all the time. I’ve tried making Flock forget the wordpress account, and start from the beginning, but the same problem persists.
Anyway, I hope we can get all of these things worked out. Flock is the best thing that’s happened to browsing since Firefox first released.
Dig the blog a LOT!
Nice style and I like the way you discuss the problems . I’m going to book mark it.