Talkings of a Tyrant

The new Flock browser is… interesting. It is based off of the Firefox, with some sweet extras thrown in. By “based off,” I mean very similar - same basic source code (Firefox is open source, remember? anyone can edit and use it).

There are some new features though. For example, Flock allows you to completely integrate your browser bookmarks and del.icio.us bookmarks. Sounds good, but I can’t seem to get it to work. I’ll try again later.

And then there are built in blogging tools. Such as what I’m using right now. See this picture for a better view. Awesome, but not necessary.

Finally, we get to the bad parts. Flock isn’t compatible with Firefox extensions. This seems like a bad decision to me. If it was compatible, then it would be easier to attract Firefox users. As it is, people would have to convince extension developers to create extensions for Flock.

Flock has quite a way to come before it is really ready for release. It is buggy (crashed 2 times in the 30 minutes I used it), slow, and a relatively large download(7.3 Mbytes). But it has a huge potential. If they were able to clean it up, and make it more marketable, it would definitely gain market share.

Personally, I would rather have some extensions for Firefox that would do the same thing, though.

Anyway, if you’re feeling really adventurous, you can download it for yourself.