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Going to back to Safari
For several months now I’ve been using Flock as my browser of choice. Built on the Mozilla engine, it is a very good browser - lots of new things (in built Facebook integration, for example) and quite fast. The in-built blog editor has also been a major plus point for it.
But I’ve found that it does like to lock up quite a lot which I don’t like. Every now and again, it just vapour locks itself and I’m left with no option but to Force Quit. Only takes a few moments, but it is annoying.
In addition to this, I’ve not been 100% satisfied with the way it deals with tags when posting blog entries to a Wordpress blog; this may be a limitation of Wordpress rather than Flock, but Ecto has no problems dealing with them properly. And that’s what I’m using for my blog entries at the moment. I overcame my reservations with it and am actually really happy with Ecto as a blogging client.
The final nail in the coffin for Flock (at least at the moment, I may go back to it in the future) is the WebKit version of Safari. Whilst this is development software, it is very fast (by far the fastest browser I’ve used on this machine) and it somehow feels right to be using Safari on an iMac. Even though it’s development software, I’m not having the lock-ups that I’ve been getting with Flock, and I prefer the way it presents drop-down lists and buttons (a small thing, I know, but it’s the small things that you live with on a day-to-day basis and they are important).
If you’re on a Windows system and aren’t already using a Mozilla-based browser (and even if you are), I’d recommend giving Flock a go; it’s the best of the Mozilla browsers and waaayy better than whichever flavour of IE you might be using. If you’re on OS X and you haven’t tried it, give it a go and see if you have the same lock-up issues I did. I’d also recommend you give the WebKit version of Safari a go - so far it does not seem to have any extra features, but it does absolutely fly!
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