Yes, ladies and gents, as far as I know it's the only Web 2.0 centered browser out there: Flock. It's based on FireFox and available for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows (as if anyone cares…). It integrates nicely with several blog sites (eg. Blogger, WordPress etc.), Flickr for photo sharing, del.icio.us etc. Oh, and GMail of course. It looks rather good and is just as stable as other Mozilla based products. I think we have found a very strong contender for most interesting browser out there. I think such, so far for me, seamless integration with these services can make this browser a real must-have, especially for teens and young people. Mozilla stability, coupled to Web 2.0 services and a reasonably handsome interface, could be a surefire winner!
But isn't it lacking anywhere, you ask. Well, yes actually it is. I would like it to have tabbing more similar to that of Shiira or OmniWeb. I would like full screen capability straight "out of the box" a'la Shiira and Opera and mouse gestures implemented the same way Opera has it. It also feels slower than Safari, and perhaps not quite as clean, GUI wise as Safari either. (Especially the Windows/KDE/Gnome derived buttons, yuck!)
But with a bit of polishing this could definitely be on to something in the same way SongBird might have a real crack at changing how we listen to music by taking on iTunes.
May you road rise up to meet you,
/ | \ Taran MacDuir
P.S. This posting is written in Flock, hence the lack of my normal formatting. I guess that could be another porblem, lack of some features every here and there.
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