Hey folks,

just a short update on my Flock usage, I already posted about Flock in late December.

Even after some weeks of browsing Flock seems to be a good companion: Rare crashes on my Mac Book and the memory usage is at least remarkable better than with Firefox 2.x.

I recently gave Firefox 3 Beta 2 a try, too and it was ok. But without any really benchmarking it feels as if Flock is still more reliable and has less memory leaks than Firefox 3, so I decided to switch back to Flock.

This suits my plans very well, as I just gave up my “social network antipathy” and registered a profile on Facebook. Flock is definitely the browser of choice for all this  Flickr, Facebook, delicious stuff. I’m no heavy user of all of that but it’s nice that you can easily share links on delicious, even if you do it only once a day.

So, give Flock a chance, it’s worth it!

Yours,

Thorben
FEtMab-Team

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Ok ok … it’s time for some excuses! We’ve really neglected this blog for quite a long time but I promise to be back in the game starting in the early days of 2008!

Before we get back to blog business I’ll enjoy a ski holiday in Jasna (Slovakia) with my girlfriend and two friends of us.

Some general update: The game is doing some progress, it’s harder than we thought to fight this fight with such a small team that Sebastian and I are. But expect some more detailed news on this at the end of january.

Now to the main reason why I’m writing this (to less time to go in depth with all the progress we made since october): Flock.

I’m using a Mac now for quite some time and (like Duncan Riley) see Firefox wasting memory on a grand scale! After reading the post of Duncan in early november I installed Flock but soon went back to Firefox as I can’t find any of my beloved plugins like Firebug in the Flock Addon Repository.

Today I stumbled onto Flock again and thought: Hey, why did I never tried out the regular Firefox Repository?! So started Flock again, surfed to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ and without any problem installed Firebug, GreaseMonkey and Co. I’m using a default of not accepting any cookies in Firefox and I’m using CookieSafe to allow cookies on a per site basis. It’s a pity that neither this plugin nor the Permit Cookies plugin are working with Flock out of the box. But after a while I found a plugin called Cookie Monster doing mainly the same as the two others mentioned before and this could be installed in Flock with no hassle at all. Cool thing.

So even if I’m quite the opposite of a heavy “Web 2.0″ user, not engaged in any social platform like Facebook, MySpace and so on, I really like some of Flocks features. The direct access to del.icio.us bookmarks, the integrated blog editor (where this post is written in) or the integration of Twitter and Flickr right into the browser are very promising to make my browsing experience a better one.

Ok, that’s all I want to say so long. Now time has to proof if Flock can keep this promises or if all these tools are just looking nice but deliver nothing more then their original web interfaces do. In addition to this I’ll have a look at the memory usage of this little beast.

Right now I switched my default browser setting to Flock. Let’s see how long this lasts.

Yours,

Thorben
FEtMab-Team

Update:
See this post for further experiences.

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