Flock Browser

I've recently just introduced myself to a new browser known as Flock.  Now I have no idea just how I came across it but I can tell you that I'm glad I did.  As I was looking at Flock homepage I wanted to switch but the only thing holding me back was the fact that I didn't want to leave me beloved Firefox behind.

This was mainly due to the fact that I have add-ons on Firefox that I use all the time, it was then that I saw "Mozilla" on one of the pages, a low and behold there it was. Flock is built on Firefox, this mean you can use all of your add-ons with Flock, that you would normally use on Firefox!

I downloaded the beta version (based on Firefox 3) and was amazed at the speed even though it had all of these extra features it didn't bog it down one bit.  So after a bit of playing around I finally got all of my account sorted and configured and now it's easier than ever to keep up with Digg, Facebook etc.

I got Flock the same day I started blogging here at Blogger, I saw the option to use the built in "Blog editor" and took it upon myself to start blogging as it was just made easier by Flock, I know love blogging and sharing my experience with people.

Two other services that Flock introduced to me were Twitter and Evernote - both of which I use regularly.  I would never of started using any of these services if I had never found Flock.  I would recommend this to anyone who has quite a few accounts at various different places, it's easy and has built in features for many sites such as:

• Digg
• Gmail
• Blogger
• Facebook
• Youtube
• Picasa
• Twitter
• Photobucket
• Flickr
• Pownce
• Piczo
• Blogsome
• del.icio.us

The list just keeps going.  If you wondering just like so many other people are "Where's MySpace?" I can tell you, the people at Flock are working on MySpace integration.  Media Bar is another built in feature that will allow you to display all of the images/videos at the top of the browser, this can be set to retrieve media from RSS feeds or the current page, I currently use it for keeping track of my YouTube subscriptions.

Another cool feature of Flock, I choose to use is the Web mail service. This is compatible with Gmail, AOL and Yahoo and will check your e-mail every x seconds (whatever you set it to - default is every 20 minutes) and alert you when you receive a new e-mail.  The fact that they have built this into the browser so seamlessly has made it a lot easier and has saved me disk space as I now no longer have any use for any e-mail software. 

The only bad feature of Flock would be the fact that Google gears does not yet work on Flock as it is still in Beta, but apparently when it comes out of Beta it will work 100%.

So really, if your looking for an all-round powerful web-browser that works on a PC (Windows or Linux) or a Mac... 

Then Flock is for you.