I haven’t looked at Flock for a long time, so I thought it was time I did. If you’ve not heard about Flock before, it’s a social web browser, which means that it’s designed to integrate with all the social networking services such as Facebook, MySpace, bebo, Twitter, Digg and all the in-crowd. But it also supports your webmail (well, Google, AOL and Yahoo, anyway), has an integrated blog editor that will even support self-hosted blogs (like this one), and even adds Facebook Chat into its own status bar. So what’s not to like? (more…)

After yesterday’s fairly glowing review – 35 out of 50, if I recall correctly – I’ve found a problem with Chrome. (more…)

Google have finally done what a few people said they would a while ago – launched a new web browser called Chrome.

It’s got some very interesting concepts behind it.  First of all, of course, it’s completely open source (more…)

The first milestone beta version of Firefox 3 is out.  Mozilla recommend that only developers and testers install and play with it, which is fair enough I suppose.  Doesn’t me that we mere mortals can’t have a sneaky peek though…

It immediately seems to me to be faster.  Just that little bit zippier, with a bit more speed rendering pages.  Whether that’s my imagination I’m not sure – it’s not exactly the sort of delay that could easily be measured by a stopwatch – but you do get to feel that that significant work that they’ve done “under the hood” is resulting in some good.

Visually it looks cleaner, with Vista’s themes being used meaning that the close button (which I always put on the right hand side of the task bar, instead of on the tabs themselves – go to about:config and set “browser.tabs.closebuttons” to 3 instead of 1, if you want to o the same) looks a lot better than it did under Firefox 2 or Flock.

Google Mail renders as well as ever; Google haven’t upgraded me to version 2 yet though, which is supposed to crash FF2 a lot, so I can’t report on that unfortunately.

Overall, so far, performance is good.  It certainly feels faster than FF2 and Flock.  Any cool features or problems I find I will let you all know.  But so far, everything looks good.

Tags: Firefox3, beta