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Flock, the Web 2.0 Browser?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the little-more-hype-please dept.

escay writes "Cardinal, the Beta 1 version of Firefox-based browser Flock, was released Tuesday with many polished features. Some of the features include drag-and-drop photo uploading for Flickr and Photobucket, an in-built RSS aggregator, direct blogging tool, and shared favorites/bookmarks. In step with Web 2.0 philosophy, Flock provides a rich user-centric experience, making it easier to bring information to the user and vice versa. It is available for Linux/Mac/Windows, and you can download it here. (And for those of you trying to get Flash working in Firefox on an AMD64 Linux machine, try this and be pleasantly surprised!)"

2 of 263 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Hmm, Sounds Like a Browsers... by PFI_Optix · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did I really post that much this week? Wow.

    And btw...6 posts a day, considering the typical brevity of my posts, takes all of fifteen minutes.

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    120 characters for a sig? That's bloody useless.
  2. Two OSX problems by dankelley · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1. It seems to be impossible to change the default search engine. I changed it from Yahoo to Google, but the change did not "stick". I've no idea why. But, maybe this is a moot point, since I can't see OSX users switching to Flock.

    2. Like FireFox, Flock does not understand OSX key bindings (e.g. I just typed control-A to go to the start of this paragraph to insert a "p" tag), so there seems to be little point in bothering with it.

    There are several browsers that follow the OSX interface guidelines, so Flock would have to offer something pretty useful to make me switch.