I’ll have to whole-heartedly disagree with your Flock assessment( except for the type-rendering part :))… I pretty much uninstalled the original beta version as soon as I installed it, because I thought it was trying to do too much, and none of it well.
Version 1.0, however has gotten enough stuff right for me to switch to it as my full-time browser, though. Now that I’ve pared it down to a minimalistic, one-line toolbar with small icons and installed a couple of Firefox extensions, it’s pretty much perfect for me. I can pull up updates on the people in my life with one click, and tuck them out of sight in another. I love it.
I’m glad you enjoy it, Richard. I’m sure it’s great for certain people.
So is Internet Explorer with 87 toolbars opened. For certain people.
Not for me.
Agreed. People keep trying to switch me to other browsers, but Safari always welcomes me home so very warmly.
What the heck? Did you just compare me to an IE user? Goodness, man! I never said that Flock was for you, just that it was for me. No need to take cheap shots.
Flock? Come on, man! Everyone knows Safari is the only web browser worth a flying shit. Don’t give me that “Firefox is this, Firefox is that.” Firefox is ugly and is only used for testing where I come from, which is Awesomeville, where i come from. And so also, so what if Firefox has extensions and other useless crap? I want to surf and bookmark. That’s it. I don’t need email, twitter, flickr, blah, blah. Give me a reliable piece of software that does what it does and no more. Of course it would be Apple that made the only thing worth a shit. And I’ve tried THEM ALL, son!
Haha! That was pretty funny.
i used to use flock…until i installed the 1.0 version, it sucks. simply put.
well i thought so
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Flock Goes 1.0
Tue 11/06/07
The so-called “social web browser” Flock has released their 1.0 version. The idea is pulling everything you’re doing online into one place (seems like that’s everyone’s plan these days), but after using it for half a day, it feels like bloatware. There’s too much, in too many places, and I still don’t believe that one app trying to doing everything will do everything well. Something always suffers. (And on a personal note, it renders typography just as poorly as Firefox, so I probably won’t go anywhere near it again. Safari, I love you.)