Basically it is built  for facebook and twitter. It is the first leading and best social web browser. Flock is faster, simpler, and more friendly. Literally. It’s the only sleek, modern browser with the built-in ability that keeps you up-to-date with your Facebook, Twitter,Flickr and Youtube friends, plus all your favorite RSS feeds.

After the successful installation of Flock you have to set up an account. It is a simple process that makes your account to access all the social networks. After the set up of account, the next step is to add the sites as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr or LinkedIn. Once these steps have been done the Social Networks updates can be accessed in the sidebar. Sidebar has the show hide ability. Updates are visible in the sidebar and can be viewed scrolling down by using the wheel on your mouse. The sidebar has the ability to scroll back to at least 10 hours worth of tweet updates. Clicking on a link that someone has tweeted about, take you to the desired page.

On the Flock Homepage you have tabs named as Favourites, Groups and Explore. Your Favourites are listed in page so that you can sort, read or delete as you wish.

The Groups feature allows you to Group your social friends according to your needs and demands. You have the options to view your friends as All Friends, Just Friends, Feeds, Flickr Friends, YouTube Friends, etc, and also come with the option to create your own Groups of social friends such as Family or other criteria like business circle etc.

With the growth of social networks Flock makes it pretty simple for you to keep in touch with everyone in those Social Networks that are your priority. The most important feature of Flock is time saving while keeping you in touch with your social circle.

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As a budding ‘surfer’ (back in the days when surfing the web still seemed mysterious and vaguely appropriate), I never took to Internet Explorer. I think it was because every time I opened a link in a new window it always managed to position it somewhere annoying on the monitor. Then again, maybe I just preferred the Netscape Communicator loading button. Either way, from the beginning I was a fan of using programs that didn’t come with Windows, and it’s a trend that I’ve followed to this very day.

It’s not that I enjoy jumping on (or off) the Microsoft bandwagon – they’re too easy to hate and it’s even easier to forget that Windows has provided most of us with the majority of our computing experiences to date. It’s just that if there are features in parts of Windows that annoy me, I turn them off, or find ways to do what I want without being driven into a blind, keyboard ruining rage… damn you, Office Assistant Paperclip!!!

Of course, Netscape is now defunct (though I still amuse myself with a Netscape skin now and then), and at any rate, if I shove nostalgia to one side and let honesty step in, I stopped using it years ago. There is, to my mind, a very obvious replacement, but there are quite a few browsers out there vying for a bigger share of the market. As far as the number of users is concerned, Internet Explorer is and will no doubt remain the King for a long time, but what genuine alternatives are there?

Mozilla Firefox

In my opinion, nothing will beat Firefox. They can rip off ideas but they’ll never take its crown.

Recently in the headlines for setting the Guinness World Record for the most downloaded software in a day, Firefox does what I want it to do without irritating me about it. It introduced me to the idea of tabbed browsing, it’s fast, it lets me choose if I want to view content or not and it has a large community making the applications I want. The idea behind Firefox was to create a stripped down browser that users could add what they liked to it, and for that alone it beat Internet Explorer hands down. I’ve never been able to look back since I discovered tabbed browsing. In short, it’s great, and it saddens me that it still only has a market share approaching 20%. Looked at in another light, however, when you consider that the vast, vast majority of PC’s come with Internet Explorer installed as standard, this is quite a feat, and one that will no doubt impress further as Firefox 3 gains momentum.

The jury is still out somewhat for Firefox 3 – it looks better than Firefox 2, I like the big back button and the new browsing options. But it just doesn’t feel different enough, and I’ve come across a few irritating styling issues with it that didn’t crop up with v2. Still, I’ll be used to it before long, and a few small glitches here and there are to be expected with any new release.

Opera

Opera is a very close contender to Firefox in my mind. Maybe Firefox 3 will lose out to it in the long run, but I just can’t get my head around the position of the home button in the browser (mainly because I don’t trust the Google toolbar , and I never will) – it’s not mixed in with the back, forward and refresh buttons. I like a very minimalist browser, and Opera isn’t set up to have that one button where I want it. Small annoyance, I know, but there you are.

That said, I love Opera’s style, it seems very quick, I appreciate the ease of installing new apps (doesn’t require restarts), and I think the speed dial is a marvellous thing, a far better way of using bookmarks. I like the little page previews that pop out of the tabs and for some reason I like the name. The ability to set up automated page refreshing is nice, too – it’s uncluttered, modern, and I like it, a lot. Home button! Why!

Maxthon

Maxthon is a free browser that is based on Internet Explorer. That is, it effectively runs a heavily modified version of it. And by heavily modified, I mean a lot, lot better.

Maxthon is quite close to Opera in many ways. Like Opera (and Firefox 3) you can use mouse gestures to perform simple tasks, but unlike both of them, Maxthon draws your gesture on the screen and this makes it a lot easier to work out what you’re doing. It is full of little innovations that I like – for instance, if you highlight some text and then drag and drop it anywhere on the page, Maxthon ‘Google’s’ it immediately. You can rearrange the toolbars and buttons with a drag and drop as well, and it has a nice, clean look and a decent speed. Sadly, it seems a lot of the community behind Maxthon is based in Asia, and so for that reason alone it comes behind Opera – just. For now!

Flock

Just as Maxthon is based on Internet Explorer, Flock is based on Firefox. The browser itself seems to be overly graphical to me, so I find it annoying, but Flock is a bit different to most web browsers. A self-styled ‘Social Web Browser’, Flock is designed for those who just can’t get enough Facebook, Blogger and YouTube in their lives.

And this is where Flock comes in to its own. A special sidebar displays all the latest social network updates once you’ve logged in to your accounts, and it enables you to upload large amounts of photos and videos to sites. It also lets you drag and drop text, links etc to your pages, and has a built in Blog editor (drag and drop again!).

So, for me, it’s a bit over the top – but if your primary use for the Internet is blogging or hanging around on a social network, Flock is a browser you should definitely consider. The potential is quite astounding.

Internet Explorer

Love it or hate it, Internet Explorer is still the King, Queen and Jack of Web Browsers. I hate it less with each successive version, but the fact that every single browsing experience feels like a chore doesn’t go away. I use it for Windows Update (grr) and irritating forays into Hotmail that require me to paste links into a better browser. And by the time they fix it I’ll still be using something else – even the tabs idea is badly implemented. I’d rather use Safari.

Safari

No I wouldn’t. My Safari experience: I want to install Safari. No, Safari, not QuickTime. I don’t use QuickTime if I can help it, go away. No, I don’t want to install iTunes. I don’t have an iPod. And I don’t want to install iTunes and QuickTime. No. Yes. I want to install Safari. Thank you. That was quick, ah, good. Do I want to search for updates. Okay, why not. Oh. Do I want to install QuickTime or iTunes.

Close. Uninstall. Last place.

So. All round I can’t recommend any web browser as much as Firefox. I’m interested by Maxthon, and like to dabble with Opera, and I think the idea behind Flock is excellent (it’s also based on Firefox, so I like it a little bit more). Though it will always be a case of horses for courses – some people actually prefer Safari…

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Mozilla is not the only company itching to port of your browser to work in the Google Android operating system. Google recently announced that 60000 Headphones day is now the cost of Android, and it seems like every day the device manufacturer to announce a new product based on Android. So, WebKit-based browser that comes with Android is decent, its good that the creators of mobile browsers want to give Google a little competition in the browser space.
Latest companies that want in on the action are Opera and acess, makers www , which is currently available for Windows Mobile. NetFront supports HTML5 and other web standards and JavaScript Engine zippy.
There is no word yet on release date or price yet. Nor is there any screenshots available yet, but you can check the video WMPowerUser after the break, the hows NetFront 4.0 for Windows Mobile and compares them with Opera Mobile 9.7 for Windows Mobile.
1910 Opera Mobile for the iPhone and Google Android is under development. Laptop Magazine got a chance check out Opera Mobile Beta 10 earlier this week, and left impressed. Browser has a menu screen with speed dial shortcuts to your favorites, and a simple no-frills user interface with plenty of space on the website.
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1/ Installation of the Opera browser:

It’s very easy to download and install Opera – as long as you know how to install any software on your favourite platform.

2/ Opera browsers main features :

- Visual tabs (tab thumbnail preview): admittedly, tabbed browsing has been a feature of Opera for a long time now. This allows users to surf the Web more easily and faster by opening multiple Web pages within the same application window and it is now standard on any modern browser. Opera 10 introduces a great new feature with Opera 10 though: it is now possible to reveal dynamically-sized thumbnails of your open Web pages by just dragging the handle below the tabs. And if your prefer to have your row of tabs on the right-hand side of the screen – on a widescreen laptop for example – the thumbnails will appear automatically. As you add more tabs, the thumbnails get squeezed either horizontally or vertically.

- Speed Dial: with Speed Dial, you can easily access your most used websites. Click the Configure Speed Dial button and choose from 4 to 25 favorite Web sites for quick access every time you open a new tab. This feature is also available on Firefox as an add-on.

- Opera Turbo for fast browsing on slow connections: Opera Turbo uses compression technology to speed up browsing, which could be useful when using a crowded Wi-Fi in a cafe or browsing through a mobile phone while commuting.

- Trash Can Icon: Another useful feature is the new trash can icon. If you accidentally close a web page that you want to keep open, with Opera’s trash can, you can reload that page quickly without having to dig through the history file.

- Mouse Gestures: Opera was the first browser to allow mouse gestures (user JS) to perform certain movements with the mouse to access commonly used features: it works well but there are so many movements to memorize that many of us may not bother to learn them…

- Built in Bit Torrent download client: a simple but strong bitTorrent support is built-in. By simply clicking a torrent link, your download starts. We don’t think that most people will use it, but still, it’s a nice addition for the others.

- Widgets engine: A relatively recent addition is the widget engine. Widgets are small web applications (multimedia, newsfeeds, games and more) that make the user desktop experience more fun. While some widgets can be very useful, we have to say that others are just eye-candy gadgets, with the now unavoidable “chunky” appearance. (Although frankly, widgets can be found virtually everywhere these days.) Many people have been using the excellent Rainmeter, Yahoo Widgets or GDesklets for quite a long time now so it’s not really obvious to us why they would want to switch to Opera’s widgets now. One last point: widgets can be nice but cannot compete with one of Firefox’s biggest strengths: the incredible number of useful (and occasionally less useful) extensions, which make Firefox the most extensible browser by far.

3/ A complete web suite

Opera mail has a built-in e-mail program : it is simple and efficient for casual users. Along with Mozilla’s SeaMonkey it is the last of the suite browsers with a built in POP3 email client module. It also incorporates a RSS/Atom newsfeed reader.

4/ Security and privacy

Opera web browser incorporates a strong pop-up filter, a content-blocker (to remove annoying ads), and a fraud protection system, which can warn users against web sites that try to steal personal information. The “delete private data” function is very similar to the one incorporated in Firefox and cookies can be easily controlled from the preference dialog. Opera remains one of the more secure browsers on the market.

5/ Customization

Like Firefox, it’s possible to change the browser appearance by choosing new skins. The actual process is slicker than in Firefox – where you have to restart the application to change the appearance. Customizing Opera can be done directly from the appearance window which shows a selection of skins by categories (popular skins, new skins, editor’s choice …). And a simple drag and drop will add, remove or rearrange buttons or toolbars.

6/ Web standards adherence

While Firefox is a good challenger with regard to web standards, Opera’s respect of web standards is optimal: Opera 10 Final displays a score of 100/100 on Acid3 test. One minor thing, however:  a few websites have compatibility issues, due to not using web standards- not really Opera’s fault, though. This doesn’t happen often, but still.

7/ Web development features

While we would still prefer Firefox’s numerous extensions to help us in the process of web development, Opera includes some nice features as well: for example, it’s possible to validate the HTML code of any Web page by pressing Ctrl+Alt+V; also, when showing a page in small-screen mode, one can see how it will look on a mobile phone or other small-screen device running Opera. The info panel will show details about the currently open page such as MIME type, page size, character encoding and more and graphics and style sheets can be toggled on/off via our toolbars and shortcuts.

8/ Speed, speed, speed!

Beyond the very recent speed-dial feature which allows users to access to their favourite website faster, Opera has always been one of the sleekest web browsers ever and this still comes true. Opera claims that the new Opera Presto 2.2 engine is up to 40% faster on resource-intensive pages, such as Gmail and Facebook.

9/ Conclusion:

Opera is still a remarkable web browser. It’s light-years ahead of Internet Explorer and still beats Mozilla Firefox in several areas. Some reasons to explain why Opera has still a very limited market share on the Desktop (but Opera is a major player in the mobile handset space) are that:

- despite many years of successful development, many people don’t know that it even exists and stick to Internet Explorer 6, despite the obvious limitations and the possible security risks (not that any web browser could pretend to be 100% safe…);

- in the last three years, many web users have switched to the popular Firefox and more recently to the excellent Google Chrome web browser – so the competition is getting harder and harder for Opera.

- it may still be seen by many people as “the browser with ads” or as a paid for software.

- more importantly, Opera doesn’t benefit from Firefox’s unique community spirit (even though it has a very devoted and active fan base), Google support (like Chrome does) nor Internet Explorer’s advantage of being pre-installed on every Windows system sold, so its current position on the Desktop is quite limited, even though it’s doing extremely well on mobile devices.

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A revolutionary new browser that will take the browser wars to a new level.

Once in a while a piece of software comes along that re-invents the internet landscape. You probably haven’t heard of ‘Flock’, but I guarantee you will be. Basically Flock is a new revolutionary browser that has it all, yes even the kitchen sink. If you are just a casual net surfer then this wonderful new browser will hardly blow wind up your skirt, but for the many internet freaks out there that the internet is there bread and butter, Flock will undoubtedly be the saviour of their world.

Flock was built on the foundations of Firefox, and once its installed there is no hassle at all migrating all your browser settings, passwords and favourites to Flock, the process is done seamlessly and although Flock seems a lot like Firefox it is all so much more powerful.

All your social sites fully integrate into Flock, facebook, twitter, you name it. Flock has a very customizable My World tab featuring your favourite feeds, friend activity, favourite media, and favourite sites. You can totally manage facebook and even individually interact with face book friends with a very nifty People Sidebar. There’s also a neat Media Bar giving fast access to your favourite media streams complete with a video stream search facility for the major video stream sites such as Flickr and Youtube, there’s a RSS Feed Side Bar and let me not forget a time saving Account and Services side bar. If you’re into blogging you can publish and update your WordPress and Blogger blogs with the browsers’ blog editor and you can easily ‘borrow’ web content and share it or drag and drop it onto your sites all within the browser, to be honest I could still keep going and going and going.

Although the best thing I love about this new browser is the total lack of hang-ups, it works seamlessly and is very responsive and despite the complete thrashing I gave it while opening twenty six tabs it never skipped a beat, not even once.

All in all I think Flock has something for everyone, net freaks around the world will love it as well as hard core internet marketers and even the casual surfer. Flock just seems

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*Opera: The Pros*

Opera’s browser is light-weight and well-built. The download and program size is much smaller than IE, and it offers multiple ways to improve the speed. It’s newest version, 10.00, is the fastest yet. The Opera browser now offers a Turbo mode that compresses pictures as webpages load, which is perfect for dial-up and poor wifi connection users. Even high speed services can benefit from faster page loading at times. This browser is, and has been, considered one of the most secure browsers available. Opera has the unique advantage of being little known. Virus and hacking threats and techniques that are made to attack personal computers are targeted towards the most used browser: Internet Explorer. Since Opera is lesser known, it is safe from the majority of attacks.

Some of the new unique features you cannot find on Internet Explorer include visual tabs (changing the tabs into thumbnails of webpages, also, a preview of the site available when hovered over), and a moveable tab bar (can be moved the the left, right, or bottom of the page). Speed dial, a growing popular feature for browsers is a long time feature that has yet to be available on Internet Explorer. Speed dial is a page that opens with a new tab or can be set to open in place of a home page. It offers thumbnails (now in customizable numbers and other option) of favorite websites for one-click access. There are a large variety of features and benefits that would be difficult to discuss every one, but Opera by far highly exceeds in being customizable and convenient.

As far as speed and security, Opera, like any browser has these issues as a top priority and continually improves these areas. Opera has a the benefit of being little known and therefore has less security threats to overcome. When it comes to improving speed, Opera takes the cake. Not only have they had a long standing feature to handle image loading for faster speeds (and security), Opera now offers the “Turbo Mode” which is excellent for dial-up and other slow connections. Its a compression tool that chows down on page loading time. You can even set it up to automatically detect slow connections and turn on when needed! This is far beyond where any browser has tread.

*Opera: The Cons*

Quite simply, IE is integrated with the operating system. It’s already installed on the computer, so your computer will download the latest version, patches, and any other related tool for you, providing you use automatic updates. Opera is a separate company, so downloading is necessary. For slow connections, downloading this program could be difficult and you may have problems getting it downloaded.

Also, Opera is simply different. People who do not need many bells and whistles and don’t use the Internet very often may not see the need for another browser or all of it’s features. Handy helpful shortcuts may simply be a confusing hassle to someone who is not accustomed to new features, like mouse gestures (allows you to move forward, back, open new tabs, etc., by clicking and moving the mouse).

In all, Opera is perfect for people who need a faster browser and use the Internet and computers frequently. They will have no problems using or downloading Opera and may prefer it to Internet Explorer for some of the features listed here, and others. Internet Explorer continues to do well to be a solid, user-friendly browser for amateur users and those who don’t want to change to another.

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