Anyone running Firefox would do well to download version 3.5 from here. It is noticeably faster. Some of the addons will need updating, but I imagine that they'll appear shortly..
You lost me on the tech there, brother! I'm happy it's working for you. I should probably switch over from Flock but I'm a bit spoilt (social networking crap).
I've never used Flock. I Googled it, and see that it is also a Mozilla browser for social networking. I think I waste enough time on the Net now, without getting into social net working. Who'd want to socially network with a 70 year old fart anyway...
It's basically FF but with a sidebar that you have a lot of social networking sites "plugged in" and its own aggregate reader (which BTW, I don't use, I prefer google reader).
You can compose blog posts in it, do web clips, etc. I really do use FF at home, even the new one. For me, it isn't different other than having a "tab" tab, where I do command+T to access new tabs anyway...
If I had proper internet, it would probably be speedier but I don't so, it doesn't help (although I'm running it anyway since I always update). Flock also uses the add-ons, just as FF.
I'd second mad-tante's plug for Flock. It has a lot of stuff "in the box" for handling RSS feeds, blogs (not Vox, because Vox is weird that way), email, flickr, and so on and so forth. It's Firefox at it's core, so works with many (though not all) of the plugins. AdBlockPlus works, as do gestures, which is all I worry about. It doesn't work with a lot of the FF themes, though.
The only thing is, the current Flock (2.5) is built on the FF 3.0.10 core; I'm sure they're beavering away to bring it to FF3.5, but it's not there yet.
[That said, I'm a long-time Opera user. I still prefer its "feel", but Flock goes a long way to making FF less "itchy". Besides, the Vox editor is even more flaky in Opera than in FF :-/]
I've rarely used Opera because I suppose at the time I was trying it out, I had so many problems with it and web-sites (not just Vox). I'm sure that's worked out a lot now.
I use Opera for most things. Apart from the Vox editor, I haven't noticed any problems with web sites in ages (and to be honest, I haven't actually checked if the Vox problems still exist).
One reason you might want to look at Opera 10 (currently in beta, but out Real Soon Now) is its Turbo feature. It's been borrowed from the browsers they make for mobile phones, and uses some compression tricks to make pages load up to 4 times faster - useful over slow connections. The tradeoff is that images can look blockier, but the turbo is turn-off-and-onable if that's an issue.
Thanks for the info. I'll think some more about Flock. Seems a shame to go back to FF 3.0.10. Opera seems to be becoming more popular, so I'll give Opera 10 a go when it's out of beta.
Just to follow up... I've tried create-ing a Vox post from Opera 10, and it is pretty much unusable; even uploading a photo is a bit of a pain. So if posting to Vox is a major part of your online life, Opera might not be the best answer for you.
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I'm still running flock from work.
You can compose blog posts in it, do web clips, etc. I really do use FF at home, even the new one. For me, it isn't different other than having a "tab" tab, where I do command+T to access new tabs anyway...
If I had proper internet, it would probably be speedier but I don't so, it doesn't help (although I'm running it anyway since I always update). Flock also uses the add-ons, just as FF.
The only thing is, the current Flock (2.5) is built on the FF 3.0.10 core; I'm sure they're beavering away to bring it to FF3.5, but it's not there yet.
[That said, I'm a long-time Opera user. I still prefer its "feel", but Flock goes a long way to making FF less "itchy". Besides, the Vox editor is even more flaky in Opera than in FF :-/]
One reason you might want to look at Opera 10 (currently in beta, but out Real Soon Now) is its Turbo feature. It's been borrowed from the browsers they make for mobile phones, and uses some compression tricks to make pages load up to 4 times faster - useful over slow connections. The tradeoff is that images can look blockier, but the turbo is turn-off-and-onable if that's an issue.