Flock: a whole new browser experience

I've been flicking between Firefox 3b5, Safari 3 and Opera on my Mac for a while now. Today I found a brand new "Social" browser called Flock. After a few minutes I had my Facebook and Flickr contacts listed in my sidebar. I also connected my Gmail, my blog and my delicious bookmarks. Although I've only touched the surface of what seems to be quite a lot of interesting social features and plugins, I've come away rather impressed.

The whole social experience seems to have come together in my Flock browser in a way that I had never considered. My Facebook contacts are sorted by the most recent status updates. The sidebar interface actually feels much cleaner and more organised than Facebook. Flickr photos are presented across the top of my browser window, and changing streams is faster and more intuitive than Flickr.

Flock appears to have all the standard browser features I've gotten used to. Probably because it's built on top of Firefox. It also seems pretty snappy. I'm going to try it as my default browser and see how I like it. It can't possibly crash as often as Firefox 3 beta 5...