- Integration with: AOL
Mail, Blogger, Blogsome, del.icio.us, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Gmail, LiveJournal, Magnolia, Photobucket, Picasa, Piczo, Pownce,
Twitter, Typepad, WordPress, Xanga, Yahoo! Mail, YouTube
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Q: Why Flock?
A: To me, there of several features of Flock that are extremely appealing...
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Blog Post Editor
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RSS News Feeds Reader
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Media Stream - access/update your favorite photos at Flickr or Photobucket, and at YouTube
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My World
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Integration with Social Networks (e.g. Delicious, Facebook, Twitter)
- Web Clipboard
- "Use the Web Clipboard for Instant Saving and Sharing"
- Even
with loading Firefox with extensions, you do not get the integration
that Flock offers. For example, to blog from Firefox you can use the
ScribeFire extension. And to save webclips you can you can use another
extension. And in this scenerio you will not be able to combine the use
of a blog extension with a web clip extension, say, to copy from one to
the other. But with Flock's built-in Blog editor and Flock's built-in
Web Clipboard tool, you can copy from the web clips to the blog editor
with ease.
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Built-in spell checker
- Plus, the same great features that Firefox has:
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Extensible - extensions
(add-ons) can be added that extend the built-in capabilities. Most
Firefox extensions work with Flock. For those that complain and won’t
let you install them, they can be adapted.
- See my current list of add-ons that I use with Flock.
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Customizable, Personalize - buttons on toolbars can be re-arranged, toolbars using View»Toolbars»Customize..." For example.
- Search Engine customization
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And many other features...
I have given a lot of feedback, and encourage others to do so also,
simply use: Help»Give Feedback, or click on the blue fly icon (Send
Feedback) to the right of the URL/location field.
BTW, I wrote Instructions on how to download and start using Flock...
Kind Regards,
-erich (EricHerberholz.GooglePages.com)
 
- default search - open the about:config page and pull up the entry name keyword.URL, modify it to:
- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=
- or http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=
- keyword
- Enter "about:config" (minus the quotation marks) into the url bar and
press enter. Type "flock.favorites.showKeyword" (minus the quotation
marks) into the "Filter" bar at the top of this window. Double click to change the
value to true.
- no splash screen - To disable the splash screen, run Flock with the --no-splash option.
To do this in Windows, right click the Flock shortcut and select
Properties. In the Target line, add --no-splash at the very end (after
the quotation marks). Alternatively, you can set an environment variable as FLOCK_NO_SPLASH=1
- "Load this bookmark in the sidebar"
- type about:config in the location bar and press ENTER. Then paste the following in the
filter search bar: flock.favorites.loadPageInSidebar
Double click to change it to true.
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About Flock, in Blognation, Wikipedia, CrunchBase
- Flock on the Web
          - Main Features of Flock:
- "Flock is a free web browser that makes it easy to connect with your friends and express yourself online.
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Receive updates when friends have new photos, videos or blog posts.
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Upload up to 1,000 photos at one time to popular photo sites.
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Drag and drop photos and videos from Flock's Media Minibar to email, comment fields, blogs, etc.
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Collect your favorite photos, videos, and text from the web and blog them instantly."
- Release Notes
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www.flock.com
- www.planetflock.org - an aggregation of blogs from individuals who may or may not be part of Flock Inc.
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Adapt a Firefox extension to Flock: developer.flock.com/wiki/Firefox_to_Flock
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www.flock.com/community
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www.flock.com/download
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extensions.flock.com/addons
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www.flock.com/faq
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www.flock.com/support
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http://www.flock.com/investor-info,
"What is Flock? ...
Flock is a consumer Internet business which has developed a free, next
generation web browser. The web, and the way people engage online, has
evolved dramatically over the past decade. But web browsers - the
application that fundamentally enables online experiences and services
across ones' connected life - have not kept pace.
Flock is focused on fundamentally evolving
the browser, bringing a refreshing new approach to how people use and
participate on the web and simplifying social and web-based
applications by bringing them one step closer to the user and
integrating them directly into the browser.
When using Flock, people can easily
discover, access, create and share videos, photos, blogs, feeds and
comments across social communities, media providers, and popular
websites."
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