Comments on: Flock Rocks! (Mostly, So Far)

By: Evan Hamilton

Evan Hamilton — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:17:57 +0000

Thanks for the kind words about Flock! We have a 1.1 with even more great features coming out soon, so keep your eyes peeled!

@Karoli: you can change the default search engine within Search Preferences (which is an option at the bottom of that Search dropdown).

Flock on,

Evan Hamilton
Flock Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com

By: Carlos

Carlos — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:58:30 +0000

Feedreader: never seen any better reader than Sage, the only plugin I’d need for Firefox

By: Jared Silfies

Jared Silfies — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:59:20 +0000

I used Flock for a few months when I saw an ad in my Facebook feed. As far as having everything at your fingertips in one app it shines however I’ve encountered a few problems.

First I found a few problems with browser slowdown. I never had this with Firefox, and now that I’ve switched to BonEcho (Intel Mac optimized Firefox) it’s almost impossible to run into slowdown.

Moreover, I found myself having panes and sidebars open without using them. It really just crammed a lot of data on my page and I didn’t find it worthwhile.

As far as the feed reader, I started using iGoogle so that I can keep my documents and RSS feeds together in one online package. Now I don’t need to have my MacBook Pro with me all the time, which I do anyway, and try to get a wifi connection to get to my feeds and documents.

Finally we come to social networking features. I absolutely loved these … for about five minutes. I realized that it wasn’t as useful for me as I’d originally thought. Perhaps if I was getting more feedback, comments, updates and messages Flock’s biggest asset would intrigue me.

For now I’m content using Twitterific, the OSX flickr uploader and my del.icio.us tagging plugins.

By: Karoli

Karoli — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:47:05 +0000

I use Flock daily but not as my main browser, strangely enough. That’s partly because I use the social networking stuff to manage some things for work and it’s easier to use Firefox for my personal things and Flock for my work stuff to manage the cookies, etc.

Interestingly, I hated their feedreader when I first tried it. To be fair, that was at about version .08 or so of the beta and I haven’t tried it again since. Maybe I’ll have to give it another whirl. But the rest of it is awesome, especially the built-in social network features.

My one complaint is that search defaults to Yahoo and I can’t figure out how to change that.