Back to Opera Browser

After a couple of weeks of testing the Flock browser I'm returning to opera for the time being.

Flock is brilliant at what it does- combining a great browser with some excellent social tools such as newsreader, blog authoring, video and photo uploading- all in a nice looking package. What I really like is the web clipboard which allows you to just select text, images etc and drag them on to a clip board area for later pasting into a blog post.

But for some reason the blog tool gets stuck when I try to publish stuff to this blog. It takes a good 5 minutes to download the list of tags from the my.opera server. There seems to be no way around it, so I've decided to come back to using opera which has been my preferred browser for years-- going back to about version 3 I think.

Flock is still at version 0.9. Their team are trying to iron out the bugs before releasing 1.0.

In the meantime I'm using opera. I've also found a nifty widget which is almost as good as the flock blog tool. It lets you copy text, links etc into a small window which you can then upload directly to a my.opera blog. It's not as nifty as the Flock set up, but it's not bad. And it works!