ryan kennedy’s blog

So, I’m always needing 2 browsers. I have two Yahoo! accounts: one for work and one for personal use. Why? Well, my work Y! account has all of my work mail. My personal account has my personal mail, my MyWeb links and so on. During the day, I find it necessary to be logged in to both accounts.

Unfortunately, I can’t do that with Firefox alone. I need a second browser to be able to be logged in to a second account simultaneously. When I was on my PC, I used Internet Explorer. I used to think IE was the worst browser ever, until I bought my Mac. Lately I’ve been using Safari as my second browser. As it turns out, Safari is the worst browser I have ever used. I don’t even care about the fact that so many whizzy sites don’t work with Safari. I’m more concerned about the fact that it crashes if I so much as breathe on it.

So, Safari is fired (I removed the launch icon from my dock)…now what? I tried Flock a while back when it first came out. At the time it looked neat how it was hooked into everything. Unfortunately, I was too invested in Firefox. But now it just might fit the bill…so I downloaded it.

It’s okay. It’s Firefox under the hood, so much of it is familiar. It has some neat tricks. For instance, I’m writing this blog post using Flock’s blog editor. I tried seeing what the Flock aggregator would make of my massive OPML file…it choked. It choked hard. Unfortunately, it also sucks with bookmarks in the toolbar. I have a few folders set up in my Firefox bookmark toolbar. That gives me quick access to my most visited sites without having a really cluttered bookmark toolbar. Plus I use the “Open in tabs” feature of Firefox’s bookmarks folder to have a “Good Morning” folder in my toolbar. Well, as it turns out, Flock won’t let you have a folder in your toolbar. It won’t let you have a folder in any folder at all. That…sucks. It’s not a dealbreaker, but it certainly is annoying.

Anyway, I’ll continue giving Flock a try. Who knows, maybe I’ll learn to get past the bookmark thing and maybe the aggregator will some day get up to full speed.

Now, the real question is, when I click the “Publish” button…what’s going to happen?

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