This is why I am against the product - they could have easily contributed extensions to firefox - the reason for *not* doing this is obvious, its all about money

There seems to be a new round of Flock-bashing in the wake of the Performancing blog extension for Firefox. (Check out Mathew Ingram’s post for a good round-up on who likes the extension.) Michael Arrington comes to Flock’s defense, suggesting the fl…

I didn’t know there was a hate group out there critizing Flock. However I’m not surprised, since we like to criticize everything, even thought its God on Earth.

Ever since Flock came out, I’ve been using it “every single day”. At first it used to crash on me; not it stopped. I don’t know why. I like its layout and sleek appearance. Everything is in its place. Nothing is cluttered or untidy. The blue color is very pleasing to the eye. As a matter of fact, I like Flock so much, I decided to unload a Flock theme to make Firefox look and feel like Flock.

We should never loose sight, that Flock is the first beta; meaning there is a lot of work to be done before it is a finished, polished product. Comparing Flock to Fireforx or Internet Explorer is like comparing Apple to Oranges. They are to two different creatures.

Things I would like Santa to give Flock is:

1. An integrated Speller. I blog a lot and need a speller badly. First, because my English sucks and second, because my typing sucks. Spellers are great to attack those two handicaps.

2. Formal Bookmarks: I use Bookmarks a lot to organize reference material for future blog posts. I don’t like the way Delicious handle & manages bookmarks.

3. More plug-ins to stream music. There are many stations that require ActiveX plug-in for Windows Media Player. I don’t see where I can download this plug-in for Flock.

As Bart clearly stated, Flock is in its early development stages and browser’s philosophy has not translated into code. But knowing the guys behind Flock we will see a lot of surprises in 2006.

Ah, one more thing. Flock is the fastest browser around. It beats all the rest rendering pages. Firefox follows shortly.

My two cents regarding Flock.

Thank you,

Omar.-

Flock was announced some months ago as a new experience in social software, a browser, based on Firefox, that additionally allows for blogging, tagging through del.icio.us and other social network activities.
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I designed it.

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I agree that Flock is too early in its development.

Maybe Firefox was built to regain the web from IE. Fine and laudable, but that’s a backwards-looking attitude. IE is an antique program. Why try to do the same things that IE does, only better?

Flock is being built as a browser for the new web (dare I say web 2.0?). These guys are looking forwards. They’ve got no-one to beat and nothing to prove. They’re moving ahead with their own agenda. That appeals to me.

I don’t see why people should bash it tho… don’t like it don’t use it. I don’t use it but don’t think it sucks. I just can’t see enought reason to use it. I see it actually as annoying especially if it becomes big because it would mean that I would have 2 browsers and my work more a mess then centralized. I don’t know how the Flock team look at this.

I agree with both your points. the comparision with unfair. I have tried out Flock and it is pretty neat.

Cheers

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Flock has had nice spike in traffic when they build their PR/hype but have been unable to build on it recently.

Compare them with meebo.com (another web2.0 company though not neccessarily the same space) that you have covered in your blog. You will see that meebo is showing a very nice gradual uptick