I’ve been using Flock for a couple of weeks now and overall I’m impressed with the work they’ve done. It’s a very cool product if you use either Flickr, del.icio.us, or are a blogger. There are some great tools that make this branded version of Firefox worth checking out. What I don’t like about it, is there are not enough good reasons to make me totally switch from Firefox. I do understand that it’s still in very early pre-beta status, so I look forward to further releases as I’m sure it will only get better.
I’ve read other people ask why Flock shouldn’t have just released a series of extensions for Firefox that users could pick and choose from as opposed to forcing people to switch browsers, and I think this strategy makes alot of sense.
For example, one of my favorite features of Flock should be a true Firefox extension. It is the tool that let’s you have collections of bookmarks that you can switch between on the Links toolbar (see image below):
I am a big user of the Links toolbar. I always put links to my active projects and a number of the web-based tools that I regularly use. Problem is that my Links toolbar becomes over crowded and unusable, so I need to delete items. The collection switching feature is great, as I can create different collections for different projects and easily switch between them.
This should be a Firefox feature or extension (maybe there is already one out there that I don’t know about).
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Ya – I came across that one, but decided not to install it, as the developer indicates it’s very rough around the edges and not up to his usual extenstion quality. Thanks for the link tho!
I think what early to use Flock. I’m waiting a stable release.