Filed under: Internet, Freeware, Browsers
Flock 2 is here, continues to underwhelm
"Get ready to meet your favorite browser! " Flock 2 tells me at the end of its installation process. Ok Flock, I'm ready. Blow me away!
Sadly, I'm immediately greeted by a cheesey stick figure flash intro to the new features. What the hell am I getting myself into?
As far as basic browsing goes it performs as well as Firefox, which makes sense since it's pretty much Firefox that someone someone attacked with a Bedazzler. Despite the extra baggage, Acidtests.org scored it the same as my Firefox 3.0.3 install, and I didn't really notice any difference in my everyday browsing.
What do all the extras gain me, though?
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
