Flock -- "The Browser For The Modern Web"

My brother was visiting recently and mentioned the Flock browser. I had installed it a long time ago but wasn't using it. When I first installed Flock, the only thing I remember that was different about it was that it had support for Flickr built into it. You could open a film strip across the top of the browser window that would display thumbnails of your contacts' recent photos etc. Kinda neat but I'd rather use the contacts window at the Flickr web site.

I installed the latest release of Flock to see how it had changed and was pleasantly surprised -- they've added a lot of features. You can configure a lot of your accounts for social networking sites like Facebook, Flickr and Twitter and display updates in a sidebar. You can configure your primary web-based email through Flock and it will alert you to new email, and Flock also has a built-in feed reader so you can subscribe to news feeds and display them in a sidebar.



I almost forgot Flock's blogging support. You can post to blogs from Flock's blog editor. Without logging into your blog. It seems like a quick way to post something from the browser.

So far it seems like Web pages might load a little slower then they do in Firefox, IE, or Google's new Chrome browser, but my primary computer is a little low on RAM. I want to either add some RAM to that computer or use another one that has a little more memory. I'll update this post when I've tried the browser a little longer and let you know what I find out about the speed, but if you're like me and you like to try out all of the new social networking sites, you should give Flock a try.

Later,
-R

Blogged with the Flock Browser