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Posted in January 22nd, 2008

Hi Intergang-

So Day 3 of Flock v Opera. Lots of good for Flock:

Found a Speed Dial extension for Firefox, which installed great on Flock - that was one of the things I liked about Opera
I got my Flickr friends feed straightened out (had to delete and readd it) and now I can see my friends’ photos streaming along the top bar while I browse - Awesome!
Google Reader gets really unwieldy with just 50 subscriptions. Anything over 100 items in full view and it just starts to break down, on the other hand, the Flock Feeds sidebar and built-in news screen is much faster.
It has Firefox’s familiarity which I like.

On the Opera side:

Opera has an interesting take on HTML. Lots and lots of sites display really badly in Opera.
Opera is still really fast.

I’d have to say Flock is in the lead at this point, and I will start using Flock as my primary browser (with Opera as my secondary) for a little while to continue vetting them.

Any thoughts from the peanut gallery? Opera zealots, perhaps? Maybe I just don’t know how good I have it with Opera?

Signed-
LookingForBrowser, Harrison, NY

2 users commented in " Flock v Opera, Day 3 "

Evan Hamilton said,

in January 23rd, 2008 at 12:35 am

Glad to hear Flock is treating you so well! By the way, if you’re viewing a Flickr (or any service we support) media stream in the Media Bar you can click the gray star to subscribe to that stream as well.

Flock’n'roll,

Evan Hamilton
Flock Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com

TimothyJ said,

in January 31st, 2008 at 10:33 pm

For some of those sites that Don’t render so well you can add the “View in IE” button to Opera which opens the Internet Explorer rendering engine in Opera, but doesn’t effect any site you don’t want it to.