Flock - "The Social Web Browser"

[Scott B]

I decided to try out a web browser that I came across today, so I downloaded it. Its name is Flock.
Flock 1.2.4 is a web browser based on Firefox 2 that adds built-in integration with many popular web services and social networking sites:
-Digg
-Facebook
-Flickr
-Pownce
-Twitter
-YouTube
-Photobucket
-Picasa
-Piczo
-Blogger
-Blogsome
-LiveJournal
-Typepad
-WordPress.com
-Xanga
-Delicious
-Magnolia
-AOL Mail
-Yahoo Mail
-Gmail
-Also, support for self-hosted blogs

From my test run today, I found it to be quite useful and am switching to it for my primary browser (from Firefox 3).

It has a little toolbar under the navigation bar which links to the following items:
-My World (the main page which shows feed updates and more)
-People Sidebar (integrates with many social networking sites)
-Media Bar (allows easy access and searching of media from Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Photobucket, Truveo, and YouTube
-Feeds Sidebar (shows subscribed feeds and updates)
-Webmail button (allows easy access to webmail)
-Favorites Sidebar (shows local and online bookmarked sites)
-Accounts sidebar (centralizes all of your web accounts for integrated services)
-Web Clipboard Sidebar (allows saving of text, links, and images

Overall Flock is a great web browser, because it goes beyond what a normal web browser can do. I would highly suggest trying it out. I just wish they would hurry up with their MySpace integration though.

 

[Spartan Erik]

Heh the last thing I need is a browser that provides built-in distractions

Sticking to FF3 and disabled cookies so I don't waste additional time

 

[Nathan H]

Sounds interesting, great for time killing, though does it allow you to DISABLE the addons so you can just use it as a browser?

 

[Scott B]

Sounds interesting, great for time killing, though does it allow you to DISABLE the addons so you can just use it as a browser?

Hide=yes, disable=no. But I don't see why anyone would want to use Flock exclusively for web browsing since Firefox does that (Flock is built upon Firefox).

 

[xav0989]

Heh the last thing I need is a browser that provides built-in distractions

That is soooooooooo true!

Sounds interesting, great for time killing, though does it allow you to DISABLE the addons so you can just use it as a browser?

I don't think so, since it's the purpose of the browser.

For those that would like to use but can't because of FF's extensions, most of them work on flock since it's based on the mozilla engine.