Flock has landed and this is the 78,340th post about it (c.f. Technorati Flock search). However I just wanted to add my 2 cents about this “new” superbrowser.
I really started liking it, but took me 2 tries. After the first attempt I immediatly uninstalled it because I wasn’t able to import all my settings, bookmarks and passwords from my other browser (Firefox). Then I read a few articles about it and gave it a second try. Now I used it the whole day, and honestly, the concept, the few new addons are not bad at all.
First, I had to get accostumed to the new bookmark concept. It’s hard to find a bookmark when you’re used to browse through folders instead of finding it via tags. One time you discovered the search-as-you-type feature in the search bar, this new concept is awesome, though. I would love to enable that feature using a keyboard-shortcut (like spotlight works for instance).
A fantastic new feature imho is the shelf. Just put interesting stuff there temporary and either store it or delete it later – easy and practical.
What I’m missing is a way to keep some favorites private, in other words not to publish them on del.icio.us. It would be big help for new users like me to get accostumed to the new bookmark concept by implementing something like “intelligent collections”, rule based collections that auto-aggregate given tags for instance (without switching back to the folder concept). Yes I know, seen on iTunes and Mac OS X and other places but still damn’ useful!
And please enable the right-cick in the favorites bar to edit properties.
However, Flock has potential but for now I’ll stick with Firefox. Even if I appreciate the built-in blog editor very much, but it froze/crashed one time while I was writing this post, I had to clean up the code by hand and migrate the Technorati tags to my WordPress plugin. To use it on a daily basis you’ll need a lot of patience, it’s still a developer preview.
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