Know what you will be missing and getting by using Flock 0.5pre.
1. Bookmarks
Say goodbye to the old-fashioned bookmarks, and welcome to social bookmarking. Flock doesn’t store your bookmarks locally. Instead, it uses social bookmarking sites.
Del.icio.us is currently the only tool it is supports. But soon it will be exteneded to other services (as seen by the Manage favorite service buttons, which are currently made disabled).
2. Yahoo is the default search engine
The search engine now searches your favorites and history as you type. It has also made Yahoo the default search engine. You can’t change the search engine by pressing CTRL and UP or DOWN as you could with Firefox.
3. Most extensions do not work with Flock
Extension lovers, cross your fingers that your favorite Firefox extensions would work right away on Flock. Currently the extensions need to be rewritten to work on Flock. Extensions that have undergone such changes are only a few, and is available at Extend Flock.
4. Flock doesn’t like chitika
Chitika, the new context sensitive ad service that has got much attention lately doesn’t get rendered correctly on Flock, as seen in the picture above.
5. Blog from Flock
If you own a Blogger.com, MovableType, WordPress or supported blogging that comes with a blogging API, you can write your entries on Flock. Flock comes with a WYSIWYG blogging tool that supports drag-and-drop, and lets you tag your story. It however doesn’t support the category you specify in your blog.
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