Flock

Five open tabs (“AXIS 213 PTZ” is the Curve web-cam; “Bobbalew” the blog-site). (Screenshot by the mighty MAC.)

I’m thinking of giving up on Flock.
It looks like the Flockmeisters have given up on it too.
Flock is one of four active Internet browsers I have on this ‘pyooter: -1) FireFox; -2) Flock; -3) Netscape 9.0 (which I have buried and don’t use); and -4) Internet-Explorer 5.2 for MAC.
Seven if you count the old Netscape 4.73, and Netscapes 7.0 and 7.2 — eight if you include Apple’s Safari, which is so turgid I never use it.
And I probably have earlier versions of Internet-Explorer still buried on my hard-drive.
I don’t have time to play janitor as long as my system works.
I installed Flock primarily because -a) this here site was gonna no longer support Netscape, which I was using; and -b) Flock would import all my old Netscape favorites.
I switched to IE long ago when this here site no longer worked with Netscape 4.73.
Netscape 7.0 made it possible to escape all the Internet-Explorer hairballs, and copied all my IE favorites.
I don’t have 89 bazilyun like Linda; maybe 25.
When I retired from the mighty Mezz, which is when I was doing iteration #3 of the Messenger web-site, we were using Internet-Explorer 5.1 as our browser.
The OS-X on my so-called “silly MAC” came with 5.2.
I installed FireFox on this ‘pyooter -1) at the suggestion of a PC user; and -2) because my blog-site was gonna no longer support IE, and suggested FireFox.
Gates was no longer updating IE for MAC, which was just as well. It was too messy — fire up my blog with IE and everything is screwed up. With FireFox it ain’t. —I had to reconfigure everything for Granny with her IE.
I’d fire up both FireFox and Flock, because I could make the Curve web-cam my homepage in FireFox, and FlagOut my homepage in Flock.
For some time Flock was doing all the same updates as FireFox, but then, about a year ago, it stopped.
FireFox then did another update that is really great; it could save all your open tabs, keeping them open.
So I cranked FlagOut into FireFox, making it an open tab; which staying open I never have to log in.
Same with Facebook and the blog site.
They’re saved as open tabs, so I never have to log into them either.
So FireFox opens with four saved tabs (pictured above): -1) the Curve web-cam; -2) Facebook; -3) the blog-site; and -4) FlagOut.
I never have to log in to any of them.
Flock fell into the doldrums. The only bookmark I ever used was my MyCast® weather-radar.
It had copied all my old bookmarks from Netscape 9.0, but I only used MyCast, one of about 15.
The others are old, and not worth saving.
So the other night I put MyCast in my FireFox favorites, although it required a log-in, since -a) it was the same as a different computer; and -b) it was a fifth tab.
Flock is still in my “dock,” but I will probably vaporize it.
I suppose even if Flock tanks, it’s still a viable browser, which will remain on my hard-drive.

RE: “The Curve web-cam......” —The “Curve” (“Horseshoe Curve”), west of Altoona, Pennsylvania, is by far the BEST railfan spot I have ever been to. Horseshoe Curve is a national historic site. It was a trick used by the Pennsylvania Railroad to get over the Allegheny mountains without steep grades. Horseshoe Curve was opened in 1854, and is still in use. (I am a railfan, and have been since I was a child.) —Horseshoe Curve has a web-cam, but it’s awful.

My blog-site is http://bobbalew.blogspot.com/, what you’re reading. —The blog is titled “Bobbalew;” an old nickname I had years ago as a teenager.

“Mighty MAC” (“silly MAC”) is my Apple MacIntosh computer. —All my siblings use Windows PCs, but I use an Apple MacIntosh, so I am therefore stupid and of-the-Devil.

“‘Pyooter” is computer.

“This here site” (“FlagOut”) is our family’s web-site, named that because I had a mentally-retarded kid-brother (Down Syndrome) who lived at home, and loudly insisted the flag be flown every day. “Flag-Out! Sun comes up, the flag goes up! Sun goes down, the flag comes down.” I fly the flag partly in his honor. (He died at 15 in 1969.)

“Favorites” is the Internet-Explorer terminology for “bookmarks.” (Other Internet-browsers call saved web addresses “bookmarks.”)

“Linda” is my wife of 41+ years. She uses a Windows PC with Internet-Explorer as her browser.

The “mighty Mezz” is the Canandaigua Daily-Messenger newspaper, from where I retired over three years ago. Best job I ever had.

“OS-X” is Apple Computer’s current operating-system: OS-10. There have been updates, and I use 10.4 (“Tiger”).

“Gates” is Bill Gates, head of Microsoft. The PC (“Personal Computer”) architecture is designed to work with Microsoft Windows®, the current Microsoft PC operating system. —Most people (“Granny”) use Microsoft, thinking computers are mainly Microsoft, much like General Mills is cereal. Internet-Explorer is Microsoft’s web browser.

I use “MyCast®” as my weather web-site.

OS-X has a “dock” to one side, or bottom, of its desktop display, and all the icons therein are “aliases” of-a-sort, but not true “aliases.” But they fire up the software application iconized. —I can add or delete icons; but doing so doesn’t vary your hard-drive. The application may still exist on your hard-drive, but not in the “dock.” The “dock” is essentially a shortcut to fire up frequently used software applications. (“Aliases” do the same, but dock-icons aren’t aliases.)