Unknown Browsers. Part 1. Flock.
Flock.
Last version: 0.5 pre.
Home page: www.flock.com
OS Size
Windows 8 MB
Mac OS X 10.5 MB
Linux 9.5 MB
It’s a good browser. The author was the one of developers of Mozilla Firefox and some years worked in OpenSource sphere (free source code). Browser is in developmental stage now, but nevertheless there are a host of functions. In this description it will viewing the most important of them.
It is significant most of all nice interface and ap of skins, that’s why it will pleasantly to work with this browser. Flock approves interface Drag&Dock, that’s why you may easy and comfortably to setup the toolbar, only to move necessary button to necessary place. And that’s all!
The navigation is realized with the help of insets, i.e. in main window it could be several web-pages, and you may switch between them, as in Opera, K-Meleon and Mozilla Firefox.
Flock upholds the greate numbers of coding, could automatically determine the coding, correctly represent russian symbols.
Browser can saving web-pages both with images and without them. In case when page saving with images Flock saving page as html format with title, and additional files saving in separate folder with the same name with ‘_files’.
Comfortable searching on web-pages: you may look for words seperatly, but you may illuminate all looked for words on web-pages. There is realized quick searching – when user only starting to write text, browser at once became to search it.
Toolbar for developers as DOM Inspector also present in this browser.
Also browser Flock has function Shelf – no one browser has such function. It is to open window you may drag over links from any web-pages and then you may realize quick navigation on interesting to you sites.
Some shortcomings:
- there is no ability to load ca h images;
- you may not to change coding by right button, only with the help of menu View.
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