Flock 2.0 Showing more Potential

Posted June 19, 2008 at 05:59 PM by Elisabeth Young

Section: Web, Web Browsers

As far as 3 years back, Flock has been trying to integrate it all together –multiple online accounts, activities, profiles, feeds and the like. While version 1.0 was not necessarily bad, Flock version 2.o – built on Firefox 3 foundations – looks to be a solid integrative application, even at beta testing stage.

The first thing users will notice on Flock 2.0 is the speed. Switching between features is very smooth, unlike the first version in that while it was never slow, it used to process feature-switching a bit more. And it is a bit-more feature-packed the second time around. New features like auto-completion where it was most needed, and the improved password manager, were integrated into older, more familiar features like Pownce, Digg and AOL mail sidebar access.

There’s always room for improvement, and maybe Flock should pay more attention to the feedback they’re getting. Considering the integration that Flock is hyping on, the blog editor (an often used feature) is a bit… weak, for lack of better terms. Also, a choice of more skins for the application would be a fresh addition, especially since this is a major strength of the Firefox 3 engine.

All in all, Flock 2.0 is a huge leap in the right direction of “bringing everything together”.  A couple of tweaks here and there and Flock might just convince most web-empowered people to drop IE or regular Firefox.

Read [Mashable]