Flock is available for download tonight as a developer preview version, and it’s super super cool :!
Imagine this
- The usual Firefox goodness. (Many extensions work, many haven’t yet. It’s advertising itself as Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051019 Flock/0.4 Firefox/1.0+)
- del.icio.us as integrated bookmark organizer (with very nice tag support and list view)
- an integrated blog editor working with all open API
- Flickr integration
- feed discovery and reader (adding a bookmark automatically monitor its feed)
- full-text indexing of all pages you browsed (and internal search engine)
And imagine them working together pretty darn well for a supposedly pre-beta software. Some might say it’s just firefox with skins and extensions. But my browsing experience is actually quite different, and in a better way. The extensions weren’t feeling much as part as it is with Flock. (the del.icio.us extension, for example)
And it’s opensource, of course. Two thumbs up for those who lead the Flock.
