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Flock is based on Firefox and includes automatic RSS feeds, photo and bookmark sharing, and other next-generation Web technologies.
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It fixes the problem I had with Avant - which loses focus inside a textarea when you alt-tab to another application and then back.
And the problem I had with Firefox - which opens a new instance of the browser instead of new tabs within the running instance - when you click on links from other applications, like Outlook.
As for the other features, I look forward to playing with them more as time goes on. The only rendering problems I've seen so far as the ones that I see with Firefox, Safari, etc., not respecting styles applied to individual lines in a multiple line select, or width settings to a tags or submit style inputs. But I'm guessing that's more of IE allowing you to do things with CSS that's not standard. (Though better looking.)
I've had this extension practically since I started using Firefox, so I can't actually say what FF does on its own! However, with this extension properly configured, it's an extremely rare occurance when a link will open a new window instead of a new tab. Give it a shot.
It fixes the problem I had with Avant - which loses focus inside a textarea when you alt-tab to another application and then back.
And the problem I had with Firefox - which opens a new instance of the browser instead of new tabs within the running instance - when you click on links from other applications, like Outlook.
As for the other features, I look forward to playing with them more as time goes on. The only rendering problems I've seen so far as the ones that I see with Firefox, Safari, etc., not respecting styles applied to individual lines in a multiple line select, or width settings to a tags or submit style inputs. But I'm guessing that's more of IE allowing you to do things with CSS that's not standard. (Though better looking.)
I've had this extension practically since I started using Firefox, so I can't actually say what FF does on its own! However, with this extension properly configured, it's an extremely rare occurance when a link will open a new window instead of a new tab. Give it a shot.
Do yourself a favor, use Opera Browser.
Do yourself a favor, use Opera Browser.
"Flock includes a built-in RSS reader... Various Web sites and
software programs already provide this functionality, but Flock is
one of the first to integrate it into a Web browser."
I look at my favorite RSS feeds every morning in the Safari browser
on mac and I've been doing it since Tiger came out... Doesn't that
make Safari the first browser with built-in RSS reader???
"Flock includes a built-in RSS reader... Various Web sites and
software programs already provide this functionality, but Flock is
one of the first to integrate it into a Web browser."
I look at my favorite RSS feeds every morning in the Safari browser
on mac and I've been doing it since Tiger came out... Doesn't that
make Safari the first browser with built-in RSS reader???
Interface is definately as simple as Firefox.
As some people noted here, It has default search engine as Yahoo (while FireFox has google).
Unlike Firefox 1.0.5, It has been more than 5 minutes and I still have not came across any bug.
This I think it may be based on some previous code of Firefox.
Looks like we have killer browser.
~Shantanu
http://godisnear.blogspot.com
Interface is definately as simple as Firefox.
As some people noted here, It has default search engine as Yahoo (while FireFox has google).
Unlike Firefox 1.0.5, It has been more than 5 minutes and I still have not came across any bug.
This I think it may be based on some previous code of Firefox.
Looks like we have killer browser.
~Shantanu
http://godisnear.blogspot.com
the user wants to share ll sorts of information on the web,
bookmarks, cookies, photos, blogs, etc. Maybe some users do, I
don't. And there is no clear way to shut down blabbermouth
nature of Flock.
Even excluding that rather critical problem, Flock comes across
as a no more than a lame browser, not up to the capabilities of
FireFox, Opera, or Safari, all of which work very well for me now.
I might give Flock another try in the future, if someone can come
up with a reason why I should.
the user wants to share ll sorts of information on the web,
bookmarks, cookies, photos, blogs, etc. Maybe some users do, I
don't. And there is no clear way to shut down blabbermouth
nature of Flock.
Even excluding that rather critical problem, Flock comes across
as a no more than a lame browser, not up to the capabilities of
FireFox, Opera, or Safari, all of which work very well for me now.
I might give Flock another try in the future, if someone can come
up with a reason why I should.
they tell ya straight up on front street whats up..........
if all y'all aynt got an interest in positive aspects, why not crawl back in the crib, n quit trin' to dawg folks who try to make things better?
they tell ya straight up on front street whats up..........
if all y'all aynt got an interest in positive aspects, why not crawl back in the crib, n quit trin' to dawg folks who try to make things better?
I can tag and blog stuff from within the browser. Thus a user who is doing the above stuff (pursuing selfish interests) builds collective value for the rest of the users as a side effect. But the same user is not able to reap the resultant benefits.
An example of how a user can benefit from the generated wisdom is like Outfoxed, where the folk / community suggests better useful sites.
There is an article at the following URL that describes a better way of creating a social browser. The application is called FolkMind. Please go through the same.
http://www.chiramattel.com/george/blog/2005/10/14/folkmind_a_killer_app_for_the_1.html
I can tag and blog stuff from within the browser. Thus a user who is doing the above stuff (pursuing selfish interests) builds collective value for the rest of the users as a side effect. But the same user is not able to reap the resultant benefits.
An example of how a user can benefit from the generated wisdom is like Outfoxed, where the folk / community suggests better useful sites.
There is an article at the following URL that describes a better way of creating a social browser. The application is called FolkMind. Please go through the same.
http://www.chiramattel.com/george/blog/2005/10/14/folkmind_a_killer_app_for_the_1.html
As someone has already said in this forum, one of Firefox main strengths is its modular architecture.
Futhermore, I donīt think Flockīs features are enough to justify the existence of yet another browser.
All in all, the only explanation I see for making another browser like Flock is pure business (whatever that might be, since it seems thereīs not a lot of money to be made in browsers).
- Why not?
- by Mario Nogueira October 23, 2005 12:30 PM PDT
- In my humble opinion, if the folks at Flock really want to improve users browsing experience and contribute to Firefox at the same time, why not just put Flockīs features into a bunch of new plugins or extensions to Firefox?
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(46 Comments)As someone has already said in this forum, one of Firefox main strengths is its modular architecture.
Futhermore, I donīt think Flockīs features are enough to justify the existence of yet another browser.
All in all, the only explanation I see for making another browser like Flock is pure business (whatever that might be, since it seems thereīs not a lot of money to be made in browsers).