Comments on: Flock browser review

By: flashtrader

flashtrader — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:47:05 +0000

Hello there,
I just downloaded Flock yesterday and it really is great for organizing all of your social networking sites in one place.

I tried out the flickr uploader and it worked perfectly. I found that upload speeds were fast. It was easy to add titles, tags, and create albums right from the uploader program.

One thing that would be nice to integrate into Flock is sync browsing.
Anytime you open another Flock browser on another machine all of your sites will already appear. Opera currently has this feature and is my default browser at the moment.

Thanks for the review.

Flash

By: Nick Weston

Nick Weston — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:51:59 +0000

so far so good….but boy does Flock LOOK like a toy. Very child-like icons for whatever that’s worth. Seems slow to me but that could be because it’s Memorial Day and a lot of people are home, online.
Great ideas though-I can see where this is all going!

By: ChaCha Fance

ChaCha Fance — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:14:08 +0000

Flock now supports Adblock! I know because I use it on there. I have now officially switched from Firefox to Flock. There are a lot more features now & it’s more stable. Plus, it’s only going to get better!

By: billgoldberg

billgoldberg — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:51:38 +0000

I’ve been using flock for a week now on gutsy gibbon and it’s great.
I love the easy blogging, flickr, rss, it’s media bar, …

The default theme is a bit “girly” but who uses a default look on an linux program anyway?

It’s my standard browser and will be for a while I think.

By: gio

gio — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:28:51 +0000

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By: Online TV

Online TV — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:50:06 +0000

I could make firefox (Tools/MediaPlayerConnectivity) to look video streams and online TV in 10 minutes… I could not do it with flock for more than 4 hours experimenting…

By: Jeffrey Heinze Fry

Jeffrey Heinze Fry — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:31:17 +0000

I’ve been using Flock for less than a week now, and I must say that aside from a few bugs, I’m extremely impressed. I’ve finally found a browser that handles RSS feeds better than Safari (except that it only displays 20 articles on a page, which is a drag, but I’ve tried out a less stable version which has some upcoming improvements, and this is fixed.) The photo uploader/blogger/delicios support is all very nice. I’d like to see the capability to upload to YouTube and Google Video in the future as well. The bar at the bottom to drag images and text to is also really nice, and the interface is second only to Safari, and even then, it’s close. It handles bookmarks pretty miserably (I’ve previewed the newer version, and it looks like they are trying for normal implementation of bookmarks, but it’s a buggy mess at the moment. But by the time it’s done, everything should be AOK there.) The only thing I see that any browser does better than flock that isn’t good in either the current or newer version is that Flock is pretty slugish. It runs really slow compared to Safari and Firefox. I noticed this with Firefox at first too, but then it just about doubled it’s speed when I installed Falter Fox (I had a stopwatch.) Flock is going about the speed Firefox did before I installed Fasterfox, and so far, fasterfox does not work with Flock.

By: Casey

Casey — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:32:09 +0000

Will,

You know what I’d like to see added to Flock? Support for more photo uploading services. Flickr is good if you have a pro account, and Photobucket is ok for myspace usage. How about BubbleShare, Imageshack, Shutterfly, Zoomr, or maybe even ALL photo sharing services?! I know it’s a tall order, but it sure would be nice to see it happen someday. I’ve been testing out Flock this week, and so far I’m not fully convinced to switch yet, but I do like the photo feature and blogging feature. My main hesitation to switch is that on a Mac Camino is much quicker to start-up and load pages, as well as it has the Aqua buttons and other various eye candy that I’ve grown to love about Macs.

By: JUploadr - free photo uploading app » at Tom Raftery’s I.T. views

JUploadr - free photo uploading app » at Tom Raftery’s I.T. views — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:21:40 +0000

[...] Previously I wrote about how easy uploading photos to Flickr is using Flock. [...]

By: Will Pate

Will Pate — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:55:46 +0000

I’m dragging from iPhoto to the photo icon in Flock to upload.

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:41:57 +0000

Hey Will - thanks for stopping by and commenting.

I just found out not long ago that you can select photos in iPhoto and drag them on to the photo icon to upload

Sorry if I’m being a bit slow here Will (nothing new there!) but what photo icon in what application are you dragging them to?

By: Will Pate

Will Pate — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 05:24:58 +0000

Tom, I was using the same iPhoto plugin to upload to Flickr before Flock too. I just found out not long ago that you can select photos in iPhoto and drag them on to the photo icon to upload. Now I get to keep using my iPhoto and Flock as I upload - sweetness.

David, I sync usernames and passwords between Firefox and Flock with Google Browser Sync.

What do you folks think we could do to make Flock better?

Cheers,

Will Pate
Community Ambassador, Flock

By: Gerry O'Sullivan

Gerry O'Sullivan — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:04:03 +0000

Don McAllister’s excellent ScreenCasts Online puts Flock through its paces this week. After watching it and seeing all that Flock has to offer, I might be tempted to use it more.

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:07:17 +0000

Nice idea Dave - I must take a look. Thanks to Gerry, I’m now using Shiira as well!!!

By: David

David — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 02:40:05 +0000

at any one time I have Flock, Safari, Firefox and Camino running simultaneously

I have the same problem as each browser does have its own strengths. The biggest pain was keeping all my passwords and form fillers in sync. That’s why I wrote 1Passwd - it integrates with the keychain and makes your saved forms available to each of these 4 browsers.

By: Easton Ellsworth

Easton Ellsworth — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:47:54 +0000

Thanks for the encouragement! Very true.

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:21:40 +0000

Absolutely Easton - we are programmed to fear change and to stick with what we know (i.e. what is perceived to be safe).

Sod that! Embrace change! Try something new every day!

By: Easton Ellsworth

Easton Ellsworth — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:11:50 +0000

Thanks for this review, Tom - I’m excited to try Flock out.

Funny, but for years I clung stubbornly to IE … and now I cling stubbornly to Firefox. Even if Flock or another browser is better, I’ll have a hard time switching again. Is this normal?

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MacManX.com | Blogroll Dive: 7/10/06 — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:51:01 +0000

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By: kick.ie

kick.ie — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:31:54 +0000

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