Flock - New kid (web browser) on the block

Flock is a FireFox based web browser with more emphasis on social networking . almost a month old, it is still in the developer preview stage, so use it only to test out its features and not as a sole web browser on your system(unless you are an adventurous type). it might crash once in a while and it has a bigger footprint on system's resources than firefox. but that is because of the following additional features:

• Better management of Favourites - using Collections to store related web pages, Tags to label the favourite web pages and Favourites Star Button to quickly bookmark a web page(see next)

• Direct integration with de.licio.us - removes the only limitation of de.licio.us - the time it used to take to bookmark something. you can still add tags to the bookmarks but with just a single click now. Just click the Star button near the adress bar or click the down arrow of the Star button and select "Star and Tag this page."

• Good support for RSS feeds. Whenever you visit a webpage that contains RSS feed urls, you can switch to 'RSS View' that shows you the feeds available on that web page. Click 'Feeds' button that is displayed in the address bar to switch view.

• Blog away from with in the browser - compose, drag-n-drop stuff and post to most popular blogging services, from the web browser itself. best thing i found is that you can manage multiple blog accounts in it. Use View->Top Bar->Blog Topbar. see the image.

• Integrated support for flickr. If you are a flickr user, then you can share photos using a flickr account from within the Flock web browser using View->Top Bar->flickr photos.

Currently it doesn't import anything from existing web browsers(Firefox, IE on windows), but may support it in the future. still at a very nascent stage, might offer a good alternative to the existing web browsers in the future. to keep a tab on the development of Flock, go here.

Most of the rest of the things are similar to Firefox - you can download new themes and extensions if you don't like the default look etc. If you use de.licio.us, flickr and blogging a lot, then you must check out Flock(btw, there is a lot of hype going around regarding this web browser...claimed as the next 'big' revolution on the internet...don't give in to that...just see what conviniences it provides to you and whether you would buy them or not). Some links should help:
http://rss.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000590064493/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/08/26/flock-social-browsing-is-cool/
http://www.flock.com/fiveways/togetstarted/13.php