I had picked up a Firefox-based “social browser” named Flock not too long ago. There was a time where I was lured by its integration with Flickr, Twitter, Facebook and WordPress. In the end, however, I’ve given up.
Flock does part of its job well enough, tbqh. But I found that I couldn’t reliably get status updates a-la NewsFeed like I wanted in the browser. I also found that for Twitter it had a hard time beating Twitterific. Flickr? Well, we’re not well integrated into the world of Flickr yet — and I’m not sure it’s the right place for us to stage our photos (perhaps Smugmug would be better). As to WordPress, they’ve got a fancy WYSIWYG editor on their website.
Done, done, done and done. Short version: what’s the reason for using Flock again?So, I’m back to Safari after a tumultuous morning and early afternoon of attempting to fix my MacBook’s intransigence (it had no desire to restart or cleanly shutdown). In the end, disabling Spotlight indexing on my root drive seems to have been the magic moment.
So, Spotlight’s gotten the boot too. Will I miss that more than Flock?
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