Tech It Like A Man!

I did indeed download the latest version of Firefox, and since have also downloaded the upgrade. Talk about awesome and fast. I am totally in love. I completely uninstalled Flock in favor of the less bloated Firefox. I don’t really miss Flock, especially since my most important add-ons either still worked with FF3 or were quickly updated. I have not had FF3 freeze on me more than twice since I installed in on the 17th last month. Even my husband is foregoing his beloved Avant for my FF browser for some things he has to do on the net. Keep it going Mozilla. You have a winner here!

Not really. I rather enjoy Flocking the interweb. Flock is a social networking browser. It is chock full of useful applications that don’t require any addons or plugins. You are able to set up your accounts through Flock and have one click access to it all. I can upload photos to Flickr or Photobucket directly from the browser and blog them or share them in minutes.

I can check up on my friends on sites like Facebook and Twitter. I can blog to my self hosted sites and a good number of free hosting sites. I can even access my bookmarks in del.icio.us.

If you are a Firefox user, you will love the fact that most of the extensions and add-ons you can use in FF are compatible for use in Flock. Just go to the addons page for FF and download as you would if you were using FF. I have added nearly all my other addons without problems.

Want to get a glimpse of what I’m talking about? Check out the Flickr stream of screenshots. I am sure you will be pleasantly surprised.

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Today I decided to check out all the wonders of Flock. I think I have fallen in love. I am totally cheating on Firefox with Flock. It has nearly everything. There are a few addons from Mozilla that I wish would work with this last verison of Flock, but they aren’t anything I can live without. I hope that more extensions get added on from Flock admins themselves, though. I am going to be testing this browser for at least a week before I decide whether or not to totally switch.

What is your experience with Flock?

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Firefox 3 is going to become an entity in and of itself. From the wiki that I read on FF3, Mozilla is going after the highest prize: becoming a stand alone information module. Their 3rd version will be bigger, better, and stronger than any other version thus far. Firefox 4 is already in the works for 2008, as well. Gran Paradiso, as the third installment has been dubbed, will be out in the third quarter of this year. Microformats are the key to Mozilla turning this browser into something really huge. If Mozilla can succeed in becoming the information broker, they will blow the competition out of the water.

Internet Explorer 8, I fathom, will still end up with major security issues. Microsoft seems to be plagued with having to make patch after patch for their products. They also suffer from copycat-itis. One day I was looking at a screenshot that I could have sworn was FF2 but it was IE7! I guess they figure that something so popular can’t be bad. They are trying to build on the interface and make it their own, but it’s coming off really really wrong.

I know I seem rather biased against everything Microsoft, but believe me, if they got their stuff together and became as they once were I would be singing their praises. I mean, come on! They are going to be supporting microformats in their next upgrade, too. The skins are starting to look alike. I have a feeling they will be forever trying to play catch up on this one.

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I’m not mad. I upgraded the very minute it was evident that the new version was released. It is faster, more stable, and a sweet deal all over. I am waiting for 2 of my extensions to be upgraded to work with this version of Firefox, but other than that Mozilla has done right by me and I expect that the next release will be even better. Kudos to you Mozilla!

Now if Microsoft could get their act together, they might have a fighting chance. Already two flaws have been found within their system…and don’t forget that my prediction about the hack came true for Vista.
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