So I’ve bowed to peer pressure, and I’m blogging this from Flock, which is a browser based on Firefox, but with extra nifty features, mostly positioned in the sidebar.
It kind of has an unfinished feel about it, but it’s pretty good actually. If it can get me personal-blogging easily and quickly again, then that’s a good thing — and this is a much quicker way of doing that.
As Jake says, there are a few things I’m not so fond of — particularly in terms of the way it displays RSS feeds. Not sure if it’s going to be enough to get me off Google Reader – and there are some niggling quirks when adding links in the blogging window — but hey… it has a blogging window and it displays RSS feeds better than the way any other browser out there does natively.
If you’re a Facebook or Twitter user (I’m both, but I’m kind of over the former), it integrates them really well into the sidebar. It also has a media bar, which seems a bit like overkill.
Perhaps the best feature is the web clipboard, onto which you can drag images, passages of text and so on to read at your leisure later or integrate into other things you’re working on. The ‘blog this’ function’s also kind of nice, but that’s nothing terribly new.
I’ll keep at it for a bit, because all of the main Firefox plugins I use seem to integrate nicely into Flock, so as long as they keep updating it and fixing the quirks, I’ll be reasonably happy.
Two more sleeps till I go on the big plane to NZ.
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“It kind of has an unfinished feel about it”
Yep, it was a test project. Never was finished. Something similar from Mozilla is coming in the pipeline. I work on the Camino project so not my area.