Flock has been my default browser since 2007, I believe. Suitable to online marketers and social media addicts. But it does take a long time to open so if I'm in a hurry or just want to quickly google or check web-based email, I'll just use Chrome or Safari instead. All my Firefox add-ons work just fine on Flock, which Flock should really emphasize on their site. Of the Flock extra functions, I like to use the Media Bar, accounts, and quick access to email. I also like the implementation of Favorites. Not Blog editor, I still just login to the web admin or use Live Writer. Not Feeds, I still use GReader.
- Marie Casas
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I've been using it for a year. It's the perfect browser for me as a blogger and social media user. I love that I can set up multiple accounts for email or whatever website. I like that I can send updates to Twitter from the sidebar. I wish I could reply/retweet/DM from the sidebar to Twitter and Facebook. I also wish it had FF support. But I love, love, love having all my feeds in one page instead of having to go to GR for them.
- Admiral Anika
I stopped using flock around 1.0. It kept snogging my computer resources, and per Rich, WAY too cluttered. I may try it again, tho'.
- Helen Sventitsky
Firefox does everything I need, so Flock doesn't really hold any interest for me.
- Tristan Seligmann
The first version was awful it kept crashing on a scheduled 15min interval due to that I haven't tried the new release until I hear at least some major postives.
- sofarsoShawn
Flock has to be as fast as Chrome to even stand a chance.
- vijay
There was a rumour ages ago that they were going to fork Chromium and replicate the current feature set. Don't really see that happening any time soon though.
- Rich
It uses too much ram, overheats the computer.
- Richard A.
Oh, I do and I really love the new update for Twitter and FB.
- Michelle Marie Miller
Chrome and Bookmarklets do everything I need, the rest is covered by desktop clients
- BCK
I did give it a try when it came out in 2006(Not sure about the year) but it was not compelling enough to make it my regular browser. I will give it a try today.
- ashish
Flock includes too much functionality from the start. I'm not really, really big on social media, so there were a lot of the Flock features that were just taking up space. The great thing about Firefox is that it starts out with things that nearly everybody needs, and then you can add functionality to create an awesome customized browser. If you are interested in reading more of my...
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- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
I like it because it is so easy to upload to Flickr (i think i use flock only for uploading to flickr) (and it is really great to follow fellow flickr users via flock)
- Ozgur Poyrazoglu
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Thx John, there we go, same problems I experienced with v. 1 there's much better browsers out there, and until it can compete with the big boys, pass.
- sofarsoShawn
I cannot run flock at work - so it is of no value to me :(
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Agree with Rich, Helen, others above - wanted to like it and do like some of the social stuff being so integrated, but the performance / resource-hogging traits were too much to handle - much prefer Firefox ...
- Patrick Jordan
Flock is my personal favorite browser for Facebook and drag and drop Blogging. It does seem like it should be the default browser for social media. The complexity constraints that may impede mass adoption have flip side benefits. Which are only realized after investing the time to properly set-up the browser. I have learned not to add to many additional Firefox extensions to prevent...
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- Eric Logan
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I used it and then I stopped, but now on it and with Chrome by my side, things go pretty good, finally enjoying it again, thanks for reminding me how good it was, there you go Flock, said it. It's not that I don't want to use it, but I forgot what I wanted from it, and it's exactly that. I must've lost my installation or something, I remember successfully doing its portable version...
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- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
As many have said, it's too cluttered for my taste. if they could have all the functionality with a clean design where all features were accessed by just one button on the menu bar then it could make me check it out. Also, it's actually improving in terms of resources. Yet, I am interested in their move to Webkit. Would like to know why are they leaving Gecko behind?
- Manuel Mas
What are you talking about Manuel. All the features are small icons on a tab next to the bookmarklet bar, or you can arrange them to be on your menu bar. http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Admiral Anika
Anika: Yes, yet that area on the top left-upper quadrant of the browser is full of icons, stars, too much stuff going on. I think people appreciate clean, almost transparent design a la Chrome. If they could keep their current functionality and appear to be lighter on the eyes, they may have something going.
- Manuel Mas
All that stuff is editable. You don't have to have it. The sole star identifies your favorites; pages you've bookmarked.
- Admiral Anika
Well, that being said makes me think. I never saw that application as a change of life and style. I see it as an additional tool. My favorite browser (may 23-2:25pm) is Chrome for its amazingly fast JavaScript performances. 8) But some nights, I feel like treating the information another way. The ideas or results of that work are what's missing when I'm not using it, the 'information...
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- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
dysfunctional, it cites that most mozilla add-ons work but doesn't list which one's so your guess is as good as mine the result it crashes on a regular scheduled program 2 minutes after start up #FAIL ~ there's enough add ons to "social" facebook into your browser that you don't need a browser dedicated to it in and of itself: which I regard as Flock's sole identity/purpose
- sofarsoShawn
There's a list of the addons listed on their homepage working with Flock. Try the rest and see.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Add-ons I use with Flock: Foxytunes, Shareaholic, Blank Canvas Gmail Sigs, Zemanta & Stumble Upon. Those are all I need as all the other add-ons I used with Firefox are already built into Flock.
- Admiral Anika
That's another thing I find problematic; it builds in add-ons that I'll never use which bloats it's memory usage. Like Embee said "Cluttered and Clunk."
- sofarsoShawn
See, Sean, I think if you don't blog a lot, nor access/upload lot of photos/videos or use multiple social media or email accounts, then Flock is pretty much useless to you. Stick with FF or Chrome for the simplicity. I would never tell my husband to use Flock because he doesn't blog, he, doesn't need to search for images or video and he's not a social media user nor does he read a lot...
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- Admiral Anika
Good point Anika, I was using ScribeFire before in FFox but finally lost touch, when I installed the latest Firefox build, I kept it with minimal addons, I forgot Firefox was running that fast, got used to my constant discoveries of millions of addons to play with. ;p
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
With Flock, I was actually really blogging often during a certain timeframe. That, I witnessed. The interface it was having at the time (since I haven't seen its features now) was pretty easy going, saving pretty much anything you want by drag n drop/text selection for the easy sharing, or drafting at ease.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Yeah, I have 7 blogs and guest post to 5 others. The blog editor in the browser makes it easy for me to jot down notes, get photos from flickr and save stuff. I like that I can post to those blogs straight from the browser's blog editor. Saves me from having to log in to all of them and dealing with WP directly.
- Admiral Anika
Scribefire offers the same functionality in firefox btw.
- Rich
Maybe if social media was a paying gig instead of a dream of mine I could use something like this. For what I do now it is way too cluttered.
- MarkCarras
@Rich> I meant ScribeFire in Firefox, unless you haven't read it and was answering to Anika. ;p
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
The last time I tried flock which was at least a year ago, it was using a lot of my cpu memory and was crashing. I'm going to give Flock another try and see if it's better.
- Wayne Sutton
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I do like Flock, I'm mostly waiting for them to fix their Twitter and Facebook feeds, and then they might win in my personal browser war. lol
- Carlton Hackett
When it gets powered by Chrome I might like it again. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I have gone back to flock. I really like it. Tend to find Firefox a bit bland now. I honestly don't remember it crashing, even after throwing on quite a few add-ons. And i've been running it on a couple of old slow PC's. It's great for 'checking in' on social networks or finding things quickly.
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
I love flock. Perfect for blogging, pic uploads to picasa, twitter (though I use gwibber mostly), email and delicious. I love the browser. I disable the stuff I don't need and add the functionality I do need through firefox addons. It's the best of both worlds.
- Amy H.
Flock supports functionality (such as sharing or reading real-time updates from Twitter) that does not require tight integration with a browser. You can easily do these via bookmarklets and in a new tab of your favorite browser. On the other hand Flock does not support important feature: it does not provide the (personalized) context for what you are browsing at the moment - I want to...
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- Maxim Grinev
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I used to use it, but switched to Chrome. Flock seemed to use what ever RAM I a had available. (Granted I use computers that are over 5 years old with maxed out RAM). What I did like was the updates in the friends statuses- especially since FB changed its layout.
- moon_shadow70
I use Flock, but, I gradually migrated away from the various social aspects of it, to other programs. I now use NetNewsWire for RSS and Mars Edit for blogging. I think it's a pretty good tool, but none of the tools in it struck me as superior.
- Rick Cogley
Flock has been my default browser since 2007, I believe. Suitable to online marketers and social media addicts. But it does take a long time to open so if I'm in a hurry or just want to quickly google or check web-based email, I'll just use Chrome or Safari instead. All my Firefox add-ons work just fine on Flock, which Flock should really emphasize on their site. Of the Flock extra...
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- Marie Casas
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I just started using Flock again with its new release. I'm giving it another try. I really like a lot of its features but find the media stream to be a bit too much at times. Also, with respect to twitter, I think it's important for them to add user groups and url shorteners. I never look at all of my followers, only certain thought leaders in social media. This is flock's downfall to...
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- John Vasko
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I like Flock for its integration of the various ICTs, but do have a concern about memory. Right now, it seems like Chrome is faster in terms of loading pages, but I can do more cross-platform tasks quickly in Flock, whether blogging or updating status messages.
- Jill O'Neill
So wait, you took Firefox and built in a bunch of social services that I couldn't care less about like Digg and StumbleUpon. Nope, I think I'll stick with Chrome. It's like ordering a pizza with the works when you hate onions and green peppers.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
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