Day 3: Flock on Mac and Linux

So this is the third day of using Flock.  Yesterday I installed Flock on my Linux laptop, and it has been working very well.  What I'm surprised to see is that at version 0.7 Flock is performing as well as Firefox 1.5.x.  I'm not sure if they used the Firefox base, and created a different graphical frontend or not.  I have yet to have a crash, though admittedly I probably haven't worked it very hard for the purposes it is intended.

A neat feature I found, but have not had the chance to use yet is this little icon on the right-hand side of the status bar (lives at the very bottom of the browser window) where you can drag both text and images to use later.  Maybe I will try to incorporate that into a blog entry.

Another cool thing I noticed that Macromedia Flash already works.  It wasn't distributed with the product, and it doesn't use the version of Flash already install (afaict).  However, when I went to a Flash-enabled site I received the notice that I was missing a need plugin.  I clicked on
[ Install plugin ], and amazingly it just installed.  Anyone who is used to Mac or Windows will say, "...so what..."  However, this was on Linux.  Often what you get on Linux with a "new" web browser is "There is no plugin available..."  So to have it work flawlessly was a thing of beauty. ;-)

One thing that annoys me is that the search bar uses Yahoo! Search by default.  I like Google, and would rather have that be the default.  I can click on a drop-down and choose to do the same search with Google, but it is just another step.  I will look to see if I can change the default.  Yahoo! seems to be rather prominent in this product, and I wonder if that means Yahoo! is somehow funding or contributing to this project.  It would make sense.

Need to get back to work.  I really like this blog tool. :-)

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