Jake

Member since: Oct 20th, 2007

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Flock 1.0 beta: a social web browser (Download Squad)

Oct 21st 2007 9:09PM My understanding is that many mobile bloggers in particular lose their posts with the default website editors and there's no backup copy, and while one could edit in another application, that's impractical. This makes Flock ideal for bloggers, and with the advent of music and media blogs, I can see how Flock would have a big target audience. I gave it a test run and it looks like the debut of Flock will be worth waiting for. Since it created it's own market, it's hard to rate, but with a little work on the theme I'd give it 8 out of 10. It's also fairly stable and installs/uninstalls cleanly if you want to try it out. It won't touch your Firefox profiles, although if you choose it will import Firefox settings. For anyone who blogs I would definately recommend.

Flock 1.0 beta: a social web browser (Download Squad)

Oct 20th 2007 6:53PM As an afterthought, proposed features in the next Firefox release are expected to play kindly with external editors (google docs, etc.), so a distant future Firefox addon mimicking Flock seems likely.

Flock 1.0 beta: a social web browser (Download Squad)

Oct 20th 2007 5:36PM I believe that in an early concept stage, Flock was intended as an addon, but as features were fleshed out it became clear that the depth of the changes to the codebase would be quite deep (for some reason the editor stands out in my mind) thus there would be severe conflicts with other addons. Also, if memory serves, Flock development has at times been rather slow and even stalled. However, I am not a developer and I haven't looked at that recently.