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Open-source and multi-platform, Flock is the first major browser geared toward social-networking addicts.
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But Flock it's Great.
- by tm_anon December 1, 2008 1:23 PM PST
- The people sidebar only gets in the way when it's not in use, but that's when you should use the nifty little feature that gray x is good for. When collapsed, it still checks all those sites and stores the information for when you want to check them again. Flock actually got me into RSS feeds and is currently helping me look for jobs using them. My favorite feature of Flock is the clipboard, there's nothing like it that I've seen in any other browser and, because of how it holds photos, I've been able to share them more easily by simply dragging and dropping into my Instant Messenger. The link shows up for the image and the person I'm talking to just has to click it to view it. I used to think the only thing missing from Flock is a portable version so that I could use it from other computers, but then I found one listed in the forums at flock.com. With the current obsession with Chrome, I've even found myself going into those stories, chat rooms and forums and spreading the word. The most repeated line about Chrome is "It's really fast, but....." Flock doesn't feel really fast, but it also doesn't seem like it's doing anything until you realize you've just checked your myspace, facebook, twitter feed, email and a myriad of other social networking sites in the time it would take Chrome to load up 2 of them. Flock isn't faster at page rendering that Chrome, it's faster at getting you the relevant information.
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