For those who don’t know what Flock is, its a free web browser that makes it easy to connect with your friends and express yourself online. Its called the Social Web Browser. Flock has been there for quite some time now and they have released the latest version for Windows.
Flock is based on the Mozilla Firefox Technology and has all the features of Firefox. Flock also integrates with popular social sites like Technorati, Flickr, Del.icio.us, Photobucket etc. It also has features of blogging and uploading photos.
I downloaded the latest version of Flock (0.9.0) and I found it to be a good browser. Here I’m listing the top 5 reasons why I liked Flock.
1. Good User Interface: One of the best features you will notice about Flock is the good UI. Buttons are designed and positioned neatly.
The Star button (Shown in the picture) allows you to add sites to your favorites in one click. Although themes are presently not available, I personally don’t think many would like to switch from the default theme.
2. Support for Photo Sharing sites: Flock has build in support for Photobucket and Flickr, 2 of the popular photo sharing sites. Flock allows you to upload upto 1000 photos at the same time to Photobucket and Flickr. You can log in and synchronize your account with Flock. Flock also supports You-Tube. The media bar in the toolbar shows all your media files. Flock allows you to Drag and drop photos and videos from Flock’s Media Minibar to email, comment fields, blogs, etc.
3. Blogging Support: Flock has build in support for popular blogging platforms including self hosted blogs. Presently Flock supports Blogger, Blogsome, Live Journal, Typepad, Wordpress.com, Xanga and self hosted blogs. The blog editor has a build in spell checker.
4. Flock’s Search: This is one of the best features of Flock. The search box is located at the top right corner. The specialty of the search is that, it searches as you type. Flock has a good list of in-build search engines.
5. Extension support: If you are an user of Firefox, then probably you would be knowing the vast number of extensions available for Firefox. Although Flock has only limited number of extension, it supports almost all the Firefox extensions. Firefox extensions can also be converted using the Flock’. But Flock’d is not available for the latest version of Flock. I have installed a few extensions from the Firefox add-on list.
There are still lots of features in Flock like My World page which has the complete list of favorites, feeds, media pages etc for a selected profile. Flock also has advanced fraud protection which keeps you safe from spammers, scammers, and phishers.
I recommend Flock to all who are looking for a good browser with lots of features. So why not give it a try?
A detailed guide on Flock Web browser is available at KylesCove.
Technorati tags: Flock, FreeWebBrowser, Firefox
Great post! I would take it a step further and say one of the best thing about Flock is those Flockstars out there. We don’t get paid a single penny to promote the browser, but we do it because we love it and want others to enjoy it as well.
I used Flock as my primary browser up until Firefox 2.0 was released last fall. Now that the Firefox 2.0 features have been added to Flock 0.9, I think I will be switching back.
My biggest complaint would be that it took them almost a full calendar year to get all of Firefox 2.0 included in Flock. If it takes a year to integrate Firefox 3.0 into Flock, there will be some problems. I’m hoping that this won’t be the case, as I love the Flock browser and want nothing more than to see it succeed.
Oh, and thanks for mentioning my guide. I’m hoping to get it updated for Flock 0.9 this weekend!
Nice feature list! I’m going to stick with FF anyway
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I also love Flock. Its a browser for bloggers. And its great feature that its based on Mozilla technology makes it perfect!
Nice review. I didn’t know that Flock has some blogging support. I think I’ll be a Flock fan soon.
I read about Flock on Read/Write Web back when Flock was a tiny startup. Flock looks and sounds great now!
Yeah flock is great and I like the interface also. Btw I guessed that you are using Flock yesterday as I saw a temp post on your feed from flock
Good review, i heard about it earlier but never tried.
Thanks for introducing this!
nice review there.. Didn’t know flock was so good..
Just installed it.. Almost same features like FF + new features with gr8 looks.. And a coincidence that the theme matches with my current beryl theme to complete the awesome look
I’ve heard of it, but am yet to try it out. I think it would be wise to give it a shot. Hopefully I wont be disappointed as in the case of Safari!
@Kyle,
I was really impressed with this edition of flock. Your guide was really helpful in writing this review.
@Rishi,
You are right, its a blogger’s browser.
@Shankar,
I’m already a Flock fan, yea it supports blogging.
@Grace,
The looks and features are really Good. I think you should definitely try it out.
@Mr.Byte,
I was checking the blogger feature of Flock with a temporary post.
@Deepak,
The interface is really good.
@Vijay,
You won’t be disappointed with the features.
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Nirmal- I’ll try it out. Thanks for the recommendation!
I’ve to say that flock team has done a great job and they deserve the appreciation too! As soon as I installed it, I fell in love with the interface!!
@Mayank,
I too loved the interface very much, now a great fan of Flock.
This interface looks pretty cool . Let me try it too .
I was about dump Flock on my feisty after it failed to detect my blog. Your saved Flock for now!
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I love it! Was looking for such a browser.
Warm regards
Tiat
P.S: We attract what we think?
http://abundancelaw.com/abundance-law/are-you-a-law-of-attraction-magnet/
Cool Review Nirmal
hmmm, sounds great! i should give it a try.
@Jenny,
Its definitely worth trying out.
Err I tried Flock.. But didn’t leave any good impression on me.. maybe I should try it again.
@Kuanhoong,
What were the problems you faced with Flock. I feel the latest version is pretty good one.
Sounds Gr8, Let me try frst
Wow, I like their default theme. Looks pretty amazing.
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Hey Nirmal,
Thanks for such a kind review! We’re stoked that you are enjoying Flock, and it’s great to see all these other awesome Flockstars responding to your post.
@ Kyle Eslik: I think that would be my biggest complaint about Flock as well. We do not plan to have another giant delay before releasing…in fact, we have many exciting updates planned for the near future (next 3 months, really). And Firefox 3 integration will be top of our list as soon as FF3 is done.
Flock is back…keep on Flockin’!
Evan Hamilton
Flock Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
@Evan,
Thanks for dropping by. Glad to hear that you liked the review. Infact I’m waiting for more updates and FF3 integration.
Flock really Rocks!
Hi Nirmal,
I thought to tell you that I have recently released the beta version of my latest plugin. The plugin makes the life of bloggers easier for them by allowing searching images . It not only allows them to search images in their own database , but also on flickr.
I would appreciate if you have a look, try it, give me feed back and best of all link to it.
Here is the address of the plugin page http://contents-magic.com/flickr-ize-image-search/
Here is the address about some details on this plugin as to why this would be so important for many bloggers like you.
http://contents-magic.com/50/wordpress/flickr-ize-image-search-plugin/
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Stopped reading right there.
Ya bunch of wannabe-sociophiles.
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