I've used Firefox for as long as I can remember - for really no other reason besides security. Not to mention IE for mac is the lamest browser I've ever seen. But my point is, I used Firefox out of necessity. Two nights ago I stumbled onto a browser called Flock, it's built off of Firefox, so the safety is still there, but it's designed around blogging and picture-sharing in a way that borders genius.

The way it integrates flickr is probably my favorite feature - you can tell in the screen-shot below that a drawer slides down between your tool-bar and page-content, from here you can simply drag and drop your pictures (or anyone else's) to a blog-post, comments, myspace, etc... anything. And their batch uploader is pretty fancy to, but I'll stick with iPhoto's exporter for now.

Also, the blogging tool is designed very well, I'd probably be much more excited about it if I had a laptop - to explain: To write a post in blogger, wordpress, etc, you simply click a button in the tool-bar and a window pops up, from there you can write your post and drag pictures to it - but you don't have to be connected to the internet. The browser will save them locally on your computer until later.

It's search engine is much, much better than Firefox's - it seems to work more like 'spotlight' than a normal search field. As you type you get automatic results for your favorites, from you history, the entire web, and all with search engines you can customize.

The only beef I have with Flock, and I'm keeping in mind that it's still beta right now, is the bookmark-bar doesn't allow for folders, so that greatly limits the number of bookmarks I can easily get to. But apparently this is something they are working on for an upcoming release.

I would also love to see the same kind of integration with videos as they have with pictures. If the same way you can drag and drop pictures was possible, but with movies (from blip.tv, google, YouTube, iFilm, etc), then I would have a hard time hiding my "dorkiness". Not that I've done a good job so far.

I highly, highly recommend Flock for anyone who ever writes a blog post. And if you have a flickr account - well then that's just a huge added bonus. Seriously... go download it.

Update: I just recieved an email from Will Pate, the 'Community Ambassador' for Flock, saying this: [...] Oh yeah - we're going to have video intergration in the next major version, starting with YouYube. Even in its rough implementation in the developer builds, it's sweet.