Now that my US friends have Thanksgiving behind them, we can look forward to the Christmas season. I decided to get a head start with installing a new firefox theme called Tinseltown.
You can click on the image to see a larger image with more detail. I never install themes, but after a day with this one, I like it…. What’s that? You don’t use FireFox?
Get it now. 
By the way, I’ve scrapped using Flock for now. I think Firefox 2.0 is bit more stable and as far as I could tell, the real benefits of Flock was the integration with Flickr and Blogging. I didn’t use them enough to appreciate them. The spell check feature in Firefox 2.0 is worth it.
[tags]firefox, flock, browser, christmas, themes[/tags]
Okay, I went back to Firefox for all of a couple of minutes and now I’m back to Flock. Besides Flickr and Blogging, here’s what keeps me using Flock and hoping it improves…
1. I like the clipping holder at the bottom. Drag anything bit of text, any image, any URL, towards the bottom of the browser and a little space opens up to drop it in and look at it later. Keeps my desktop a little less cluttered and keeps me from having to favorite everything just because of a couple of points on a page.
2. I like the live searching. AS I type in my search box, I see Yahoo links pop up. So I can decide if I need to keep adding keywords or go on. I may hit return to use the search engine I’d planned on using, but it’s helpful to see what links are popping up as I type.
3. History searching. As I type into the search box, it gives me a list of LOCAL HISTORY pages that make those search results. Too many times I didn’t favorite something I’d looked at and then decide I want to go back to it. It’s nice not to have to view an entire history, but instead just those relevant to my current needs. Now, it appears that it only uses the title of those pages, so to go back to this page, I first tried Flock, then Tinseltown and then Christmas to finally find this blog entry in my local history. But still.
4. Extensions. I like that I can use Firefoxes extentions.
5. I like the aggregator. I have all of my favorite blogs, this one included, grouped by theme and all in the news reader of Flock. It’s just like any aggregator, sure, but it’s built right into my browser. I tried Bloglines but went back to Flock just because Bloglines wanted to open a new window for each link within the reader and I’m a tab gal.
Things I don’t like about Flock.
1. I want a much easier way to get to my history. Like an option under Tools or Window or something.
2. I wish it were a bit more stable. It got corrupted on me once and I LOST everything in that little clipping holder at the bottom. So sad. But that was just once so I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
3. I like how it handles favorites but I would like it to favorite ANYTHING I star and just drop it into Recent Favorites if I haven’t categorized it. It seems to only keep recents in that recents – but I haven’t explored that too much.
4. No themes. Well, there’s a place for it, but the themes page is blank. No pretty Christmas paper for me.
So that’s pretty much it. I’m not usually in the habit of making my blog comments longer than the blog entry itself, but I wanted to share other things Flock has that Firefox hasn’t. And if Firefox DOES have this and I’ve missed it somehow, then I’m hoping to be redirected.
WOW, that is quite a comment. Certainly personal preference is at play here. I would say that I didn’t know about the clippings holder…that may be worth investigating or see if there’s a firefox extension for that.
No longer part of the Flock family….? But…. But…. But….. We’re a cult! (albeit a small, widely distributed one) You do know that now we will have to remove you from the island?