Tom Drapeau

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I know, I know, I missed Lynx, or Flock, or CoOlbroWZer v2.34. Tell me all about it… what is YOUR favorite?

tdrapeau Web Browsers Firefox, Flock, IE, Lynx, Microsoft, Netscape, Opera, Safari, Web Browser

A few things I wish Flock would implement soon:

1. Maybe I missed it, but I would love to have the Speed Dial extension show up when I open a new tab, like I have with Opera’s built-in Speed Dial feature. So I could open a new tab, and immediately see the Speed Dial page. As it stands, I click for New Tab, then click Speed Dial.
2. My best groomed social network is with LinkedIn. I wonder if LinkedIn will be available as a network in the People Sidebar?

Enough for now, back to work.

Update (January 24th, 9:07pm): You can have Speed Dial set up to show up on new tabs, do the following:

Then:

Bingo!

tdrapeau Flock, Web Browsers

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

tdrapeau Battle Royale, Flock, Opera, Web Browsers

Hi Interweb-

So I downloaded Flock v1.0.5 today, and have been tooling around in it for a few hours today. I wouldn’t say I’m an expert (is it Flockstar?), but I can say that for those folks who are moderate to heavy users of social networking tools, this browser is a big time saver.

The People Sidebar and Media Bar are really cool. You can configure them to look into your Facebook, Twitter, Flick, etc profile, and grab latest updates from there. The People Sidebar will show you your friends and what they are doing (I wish there were a way to have people only listed once in the “All” view), and any actions allowable via API can be performed right from the sidebar (ex/ Facebook “poke” or “message”). The Media bar shows a cool iPhone-esque scrolling set of images from Flickr, Photobucket, etc.

There is a nice-looking Feeds Sidebar, which when activated lays on top of the People Sidebar. It shows all feeds with new entries, and lets you click “All Articles” to see all new items in the main pane of the browser.
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tdrapeau Firefox, Flock, Web Browsers

This is a test post from Flock v1.0.5, which I am running from my PowerMac G5 running Mac OS 10.3.9.

Blogged with Flock

Tags: Flock

tdrapeau Flock, Web Browsers

Hi everyone. I’ve decided to try out a new browser. Since Netscape Navigator is going out of business, I need to move off or face EOL on support. I’m running Mac OS 10.3.9, so I’m not going to try out Internet Explorer. Firefox 2.0.0.x has always been slow and heavy to me, so I’m a little turned off. Firefox 3 sounds promising but its still in Beta. Maybe when it is released.

For some reason, Flock doesn’t work on OS X 10.3.9. Not sure why. Safari is a good choice, certainly, for the most part. I’ve had a lot of crashing problems on Safari though, maybe I just have bad luck.
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tdrapeau Camino, Firefox, Flock, Netscape, Opera, Web Browsers

I tried installing Flock 1.0 (which is actually Flock 1.0 RC3), and had some problems. I sent feedback to Flock, hoping to get a response:

I installed Flock 1.0 RC3 on a PowerMac G5 running Mac OS X Server 10.3.9. Previously, I had installed Flock v0.9.

Install appeared to complete cleanly. I went to start Flock, and it imported settings from somewhere (not sure where – it didn’t ask my permission to do so), and then promptly crashed.

I tried running it again, and it just crashed. I then looked at your FAQ, and deleted my search history file. Not sure why I had to do this… if there was corruption, why not simply remove the search history folder?

After deleting my search history file, I tried running it again, and got a dialog box saying I already had a copy of Flock running on my system. Except I don’t. I checked my running processes, and don’t see /Flock/i anywhere.

So, in short, can you improve upon your install/config/startup user experience? I am going to reboot my Mac server now in the hopes that this state will be cleared… not sure of the chances for success.

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