I’ve tried a few Firefox extensions at random and they all work fine. I also tried importing my RSS feeds from Bloglines and that worked well too. The feeds are listed very clearly in the left hand sidebar and you have the option of archiving articles for reading later.

The only thing it doesn’t do as well as Bloglines is that you can’t categorise your archived articles - no folders or tag options as far as I can see. I use the net for research so having an organised and preferably searchable archive is vital for me, therefore I can’t see myself using Flock’s RSS reader as a main programme.

Nevertheless, it’s handy for keeping track of your favourite feeds without having to open another programme.

I read on the net that once Firefox 3 comes out of beta in June the Flock programmers aim to update their mozilla engine to a similar standard, so that will be good.

Incidentally, somebody recommended FeedDemon as a good desktop RSS reader and I would like to recommend it - it’s free and streets ahead of Bloglines and you also get a free NewsGator account.

NewsGator is a web-based reader from the same company and it synchs with the FeedDemon account, meaning that you can have your subscriptions synched over a number of different PCs. Nice!

One bug - if you import from Bloglines to FeedDemon it gets all the subscriptions but it doesn’t recreate the folder heirarchy. Weird. Nevertheless, I’m dumping Bloglines for FeedDemon as it offers so much extra functionality.

Thanks for the tip about Flock Tony!

Firefox 3 may be something else of course

I will certainly give them a once over, but as I have just begun developing a couple holiday property websites, also in France, I was particularly interested to know why you feel that firefox is best for web design? Particularly over flock?

I will keep looking and, being fickle, will try everything that comes along - but for now Flock gets top marks - for bookmarking I am a great fan of delicious, magnolia, stumbleupon etc (put the full stops in where you will) and again find Flock wins hands down

I’m still using it but hopefully not for much longer. However, what I really like about Firefox in general is the amazing functionality that can be achieved using the various extensions.

I’ve had a look at Safari but found it too basic in comparison.

I tried Opera over the weekend and I think that might be a possibility - nice interface, comparatively fast and stable. Although I’m not sold on the ‘one thing does everything’ concept yet, and as Opera is a suite of programmes in one (Email, newsgroups, RSS feeds and browser) I’m not sure if it’s for me.

I haven’t heard of Flock so I’ll give it a go! I’ve read that most Firefox extensions will work on it too, given its Mozilla core, so that’s a good start.

However, I’m going to hang fire until June before I change permanently. This is when Firefox version 3 comes out. I’ve heard many good things about this new iteration. It’s had a long beta test period and it seems worth the wait. In particular they’ve apparently improved the memory management, so the browser will no longer be a memory hog and will start and work faster. We’ll see!

I suspect you’ll be trying out Firefox 3 yourself, given that’s she’s a svelt, lithe younger version of the increasingly dumpy Firefox 2 (to continue your metaphors!).

I use the net a lot and I much prefer to use one browser, customised for myself and with all my bookmarks in one place. How do you organise yourself using three different browsers?