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Geek Culture / FLOCK - better than firefox? (www.flock.com)

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Diggsey
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Posted: 20th Mar 2007 23:17
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If you have never tried FLOCK, then I recommend that you get it now! It is open source, and originally based on firefox, but which is better?

You can get it, and everything that you need to know about it at www.flock.com

Personally, I think FLOCK is better, because you can upload images or even files in a couple of clicks (You just drag the file onto the photobucket toolbar and it uploads to your account!) You can also choose other sites which do the same thing.

Which one do you think is better?


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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 20th Mar 2007 23:39
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Yes... but surely someone could just write an extension for Firefox that does that?


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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Benjamin
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Posted: 20th Mar 2007 23:43
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Quote: "Which one do you think is better?"

IE.

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SageTech
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Posted: 21st Mar 2007 00:42
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I remember hearing about it a while ago, but never really thought much of it. But I just downloaded it, and from the start I like it, though we'll see how it is after a few days of use.

Kenjar, yet another victim of NRS (N00b Relapse Syndrome) May he code in peace...

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Thraxas
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Posted: 21st Mar 2007 00:44
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Quote: "IE."

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bitJericho
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Posted: 21st Mar 2007 01:02
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Quote: "[quote]Quote: "IE.""

ROFL [/quote]

What's so funny about that

Actually, I'm a fan of opera... mmm, but I'm posting this in ie7

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indi
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Posted: 21st Mar 2007 01:42
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there was a discussion a few weeks back about CSS3 browser compatibility and flock rated fairly well but was not at the top

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 21st Mar 2007 01:59
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I didn't mind IE up until 7. I can't stand the new look/interface. Everything was just alot easier in 6. I'm gonna try this FLOCK soon.

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Mikey P
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Posted: 21st Mar 2007 02:26
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I used Flock for over half a year, after blanky told me about it.. I guess it's just the skin that gets me. Anyway, a peculiar thing happened the other morning, after having it installed for 3 months (since my format) and visiting just over 23,000 web pages without clearing my history/cache, it screwed up. As you'd expect it got slow, but it also switched an image on Wikipedia with a random image from my cache... and after that I just thought, "That's not reliable at all!" and I'm now using Firefox. It's good for a while, but the novelty seems to wear off, especially when it starts screwing with your stuff.

The only feature of Flock I really enjoyed was the web snippets and live bookmarks, and there are extensions for Firefox to allow live bookmarks, so it's all good.

I'll give it a go when the new version comes out, but I don't feel I'll be returning any time soon.

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LD52
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Posted: 21st Mar 2007 02:37 Edited at: 21st Mar 2007 02:47
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Me prefer Firefox for now .
Me need to check out Opera and Flock i'll give my opinion later.

EDIT:
okay i checked them out and i feel better using firefox though i have to say Opera and Flock look good and they all seem to have similar features but just look different.
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Phaelax
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Posted: 21st Mar 2007 09:00
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So Flock has its own rendering engine and doesn't rely on FF or IE?

IE5 was the most stable ever, never crashed once. Too bad it had more holes than swiss cheese.

I just have a simple question, why would I want a browser to do more than just display a webpage? Hoggin' up resources by loading things I don't need, I may as well use the AOL browser.

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Kevin Picone
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Posted: 21st Mar 2007 13:00
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Quote: "Flock is an amazing web browser built on fast and secure Mozilla technologies"



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Phaelax
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Posted: 21st Mar 2007 16:54
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Oh sure, just rub in my lack of effort towards reading...

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Jess T
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2007 09:42
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lmao

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Chris Franklin_
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2007 13:10
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ROFLMAO

Nvere used flock I'll try it sometime

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UFO
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wow thanks diggsey! I really like it. The skin is good, its not that different than firefox except it has all kinds of extra stuff. And its faster.

But extentions that work with Firefox don't work with Flock. Most of the really popular extentions work with Flock now (It has to be converted), but some like Adblock Plus don't (Adblock works, but its not as good)

But I have found ways to get around that. It is definitely worth a try.

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Aaron Miller
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Posted: 23rd Mar 2007 09:19
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Heh heh.


Flock is really an amazing browser.


You can download plugins just as easily for it as well.

I have a side bar.
A weather displayer
An extra ad blocker
An IP address displayer
An anti phishing thing
A web page editor


The list goes on.




Whats more, it has quite a few things for me. I'll send this pic here..... *Attatched*



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Mikey P
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Posted: 23rd Mar 2007 09:52
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Quote: "But extensions that work with Firefox don't work with Flock. Most of the really popular extensions work with Flock now (It has to be converted), but some like Adblock Plus don't (Adblock works, but its not as good)
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Ad Block Plus worked fine here. Just try and install it, but be careful of the popup telling you it's not for Flock, the "Yes" and "No" buttons are switched round; I actually spent 5 minutes telling it not to install, wondering why it didn't work.

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UFO
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Posted: 24th Mar 2007 01:18
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yeah i found it whoops x_x

But what really sucks is that Greasemonkey is screwed up in Flock. I'm using Firefox again...

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