Comments on: Powerful Support For Flock. Wait, Nevermind.

By: blargumentor

blargumentor — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:15:49 +0000

I found I didn’t need my previous plugins when using flock. They had taken care of my clipping and blogging for me. (Of course I still put in stumble and whatnot).

I’m trying flock for 30 days and honestly, I was convinced before reading these comments. I have yet to try FF3 and opera FTW so I cant make a real judgement call.

I just hope they can be as fast as safari on my mac.. its lightning speed.

By: Bali

Bali — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:53:20 +0000

More Extensions

Sure, there are a lot of Firefox extensions out there. Most of them do work with Flock, but some don’t. If you have a favorite extension, go ahead and try to load it in Flock. If a warning dialog pops up, we can’t guarantee it will work with Flock (but it still might – it just wasn’t designed for Flock, and probably wasn’t tested with Flock either). If nothing pops up, you can be sure you’re set.

You should also keep in mind that some extensions affect the performance of Firefox and Flock. We cannot guarantee speedy Flock performance if you have extensions installed, so we suggest choosing your extensions wisely.

By: MobileKick

MobileKick — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:56:16 +0000

Yes Opera is by far the best browser for windows… It is the only browser that can handle truly major loads of data for input forums.

By: Mack D. Male

Mack D. Male — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:43:06 +0000

Opera FTW indeed!

By: bs

bs — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:43:59 +0000

ie is better than all these crap browsers

By: Ibrahim Hussein

Ibrahim Hussein — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:04:00 +0000

I tend to keep going back and forth between Flock, FireFox 3 and Opera, I just wish there is a real innovative way to mesh them into a new super browser. I Used to get tired from Flock but now it is much better, Flock is amazing out of the box, with Firefox its like continuous work of refining & retuning. I just wish Flock has more support.

By: Computer Guru

Computer Guru — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:33:58 +0000

Opera FTW. It’s where all the innovation is

By: zedwards

zedwards — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:30:36 +0000

I like Firefox 3 a lot. It actually seems pretty fast, more so that Flock (my #2) and Safari (opening multiple tabs sucks and is the deal breaker). BUT version 3 has some bugs, so depends on ones patience of a few quirks such as back button (or key) not working vs. speed and a very polished feel for Firefox.

By: Les

Les — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:30:04 +0000

I totally agree with every point you make. I too have installed the latest BETA of FF on one of my Macs – works super.

Regrading “resources” – for fun look at FF (Beta 3) and Flock side by side on a MAC. Guess which one uses more resources…..

By: W00t

W00t — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:35:19 +0000

and this is news why? C’mon Michael, we want actual real NEWS.

By: scratchiti

scratchiti — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:35:10 +0000

Michael, I’m sure you’re not in the business of officially endorsing things, but do you think Firefox 3 is stable enough to start using as my primary browser?

By: Lucky2

Lucky2 — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:19:53 +0000

Flock’s lovely… I like how it works. I don’t need all of its features, but the ones I use, I use. Mostly all the social networks, the RSS, the favorites… It’s even nicer that most FF extensions work on it (It’s based off of FF2, right?)

Though yeah, before Flock got to 1, it sucked. It crashed on me a lot; but now it’s nice and stable. Been using it for a month or two now.

By: Stanley Miller

Stanley Miller — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:17:22 +0000

For raw browsing performance you still can’t beat iRider (http://www.irider.com). Plus it’s IE7 compatible.

Firefox, as a development tool (with Firebug and WebDeveloper plugin’s) is great! But for day-to-day browsing it’s a pig.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:37:17 +0000

It’ll probably help out a lot more now that the endorsement was mentioned on TechCrunch!

By: Baher

Baher — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:23:06 +0000

On my mac Safari is the fastest, for some reason Firefox’s rendering of pages is slow.

I tried flock when it first came out in Alpha and found it too unstable, maybe I should give it a test ride now to see how it is.

By: Loren

Loren — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:18:14 +0000

Flock used to be really buggy and slow, but I have found with 1.0 that it’s much more stable.

By: allen stern

allen stern — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:12:11 +0000

thanks – maybe i should give firefox 3 a try – im still on 2.x and i think 1.5x on the laptop!

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:08:58 +0000

Allen, cool, added a link.

By: allen stern

allen stern — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:04:47 +0000

This is funny – last night I posted about this:
http://www.cent...ecommends-flock

I still think its a meaningful endorsement.