To start, I love Flock and I really really want to switch to using it fulltime. I began writing this post in Flock but had to switch back to Firefox as the latest release doesn’t appear to support basic cut and paste.

It’s a great browser that will excel at it’s promise, to make it easier to work with social web-based software such as blogs, flickr, del.icio.us, etc. They will nail that and are already close. It’s got me hooked on flickr.

Flock is early release software, I expect bugs and can’t wait until they reach the 1.0 release. As of today the only actual feature keeping me from switching from firefox to flock is the lack of keyword support for bookmarks.

I hate switching from keyboard to mouse and back so I use keywords extensively. “CTRL-L tsn” takes me to tsn.ca, “CTRL-T b” opens a new tab to bloglines. I’m now using del.icio.us and the tag idea is great but it ain’t no bookmarks.

Other than that it’s just bugs that I assume they’ll work out. Scrolling doesn’t work correctly. Keyboard based searching is buggy. They don’t get the timezones right for blog entries. So when I post from flock, the post shows up as having been written 5 hours ago. Oh, and with today’s update I can no longer post blog entries which is a big one.

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