The love affair is only a few months old. It may yet turn into a snarling mess. I installed the Yahoo built browser Flock on my machines looking for a solution that was more stable and sophisticated then Microsoft’s Explorer7. Normally I would have used Opera, which has multi-tabbed browsing and a whole list of cool features including skins. However, I found opera to be slow and crashed enough to be noticeable. Plus, I do a lot of Blog stuff, flickr.com, smugmug.com and many other sites where logging in is required.
Flock promises to be a ’social’ browser. Likely trying to cash in on the ‘facebook’ sensation as well as myspace and even flickr users being so common. In any event, the browser in question performs marvelously. The modernized 50’s motif aside it’s very powerful and well thought out browser. You have a very useful ‘my world’ page as well as active accounts (flickr,etc), a web clipboard, and a few others.
Flock is a multi-tabbed browser which works seamlessly. I’ve yet to over-tax it with too many tabbed windows open, also, you can open a whole new window and have that multi-tabbed too! This may be a feature elsewhere, but Flock seems to be reliable enough to surf without the constant “by clicking this will it all go away” fear that explorer generates.
Another plus is that it will run firefox plugins. Recently I installed a web converter plug-in for firefox right into Flock and it worked like a charm.
To me, Flock seems to be a smoother, gentler and more stable firefox with some pretty cool time saving mechanisms for those dealing with a lot of online accounts.
Trying out Flock is very highly recommended.