Well dear posters in this thread,
Lets turn the discussion 180 degrees around, and let me start telling you what I particularly like about the Flock Developer Preview version 0.4.9. Improvements were made I think in relation to Firefox where tools options is concerned, there you will find general (for Avast Webshield, it runs there now, hug and snug),
- Privacy: with settings for cookies, cache history, passwords, cached forms, download history,
- Content here you can block pop ups, get install warnings for extensions and themes, block or allow java and javascript.
- You have options for tabs,
- Advanced options (smooth scrolling, keyboard settings), and
- Blogging options.
I particularly like like the Java Script console and the DOM_inspector.
You have a Blog editor and Shell, Flock Feeds, just when you are into that.
You can adjust text size, page style in View.
- Extensions I have are AdBlock, NoScript, CookieCuller (the last one ported from FF with a tool FF to Flock).
For me Flock is faster than FF. Irritating can be the sound it makes on loading a new page. A thing reminding me of Bazooka.
As I said the tweakability goes further than FF, and it may be the better browser in the longer run. Let us wait and see.
I just do not touch IE (In XP SP 2 it is also a very safe reliable browser, fully pateched and updated of course).
-Iif you want to give IE the character of FF you can download Foxie to give it some of Firefox characterizations at
www.getfoxie.com.
For those who live in the States Flock needs new developers, if you are good scripters (JS and AJAX), they invite these people to build the first real release. I am anxious for it to come out.
I like to thank all the members of this thread that have posted here, and will post. It will certainly help security wise. Browsers are/were one of the first routes of malware to a computer.
Making browsers safe must be a first priority.
yours truly,
polonus
PS interesting to test here:
http://demo.issuetrackerproduct.com/p.