Flock....?

So, a short while ago, Cate was asking me a question about how to do something on the net.  It had to with a picture from e-bay or somesuch.  You can see it here:

german jungle: i want to ride my....

Anyways, she was having trouble in Safari, so I told her to use Firefox.  Instead, she cheerfully tells me, she was able to do it successfully with Flock.  "In Flock?", I asked.  "It's Firefox in a Christian name", she said.  Confused, I decided to look it up.  (I had never heard of 'Flock' before, but you can find it here: Flock Browser - The Social Web Browser)  Turns out, while I saw nothing about the Christian part of it (not saying it's not the case...just didn't notice it), I did finally figure out why somebody felt the need to rebrand Firefox as "Flock".  It's all about the "Social Networking".  Basically, Flock runs an older version of Firefox (I think it's currently based on 3.0), and integrates a "sidebar" on the left hand side that allows you to seamlessly access Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Gmail, Flicker, Yahoo! mail, Blogger, and then some.  I decided to test it out, and I'm actually writing this post IN Flock's blog posting screen as part of that test.  What do I think though?

Well, I like the integration.  I like the look of the browser, too.  It's nice.  I'm a little hesitant about the security being that the browser is based on an older version of Firefox though.  Also, it's significantly slower than Chrome, Safari 4, and Firefox 3.5.  It might even be slower than IE8 (although, that would be pretty tough to do).  The integration though is pretty A+ from what I've seen so far.  So, if you are a Facebook / Twitter / Flicker / Gmail / Blogger, etc. etc. etc. junkie, you might find it worth checking out.  (I like the blog entry creator a lot...wish I could access and edit my old blogger posts from it though)

Kelly out.

* Edited to add a link to Flock *

Blogged with the Flock Browser