Thought I should add this. I havent been able to get the favourite and the collections onto my del.icio.us account. Every time I click the "STAR" button I still find the "Your favourites" in my del.icio.us account empty.
If you already "STARRED" any URL's then there is no way you can get them into your del.icio.us account.
Guess what, I blogged this directly from Flock. The new browser based on the Mozilla engine. I waited eagerly for over a month to try out this browser. Here's some of the features I find interesting.
1. Tagging favorites - Unlike in Firefox, you can add tags to your favourites so you can search for that URL you visited 6 months ago by keywords. Works for me because I have a huge collection of URLs and classiying them is a pain in firefox
2. Integration with Delicious - If you are using Firefox you'll need the Foxylicious extension to integrate your bookmarks with your delicious account. Flock has this feature inbuilt
3. History Search - Flock has a built in serach engine (Clucene - Open Source). Type a word or a phrase in the search box a menu drops down lisiting the matching results from the browser history. When you press "Enter" a normal web serach is done.
4. Multiple favourites - You can add a collection of URL's and these appear on a "spinner" control at the right hand corner of the favourites tool bar. Clicking this lists the Collections and allows you to choose tanyone of them. A nice addition for people like me who work on several projects during the week each requiring me to refer to different sources on the web. Obviously the favourites toolbar cannot accomodate all the URL so this is definitely a welcome feature. Wonder why nobody thought of it before.
5. RSS Reader - Doesnt work as intended. I created a collection of several feeds (Gantthead.com, news.google.com, oreilly.com. Every time I clicked the feed button in the collections flock displayed the aggregated page of the first feed only.
Flock didnt recognise the feed on http://www.expressindia.com
6. Integrated bogging - This post is a result of that feature!
7. Blog this - Highlight a piece of text on a webpage, right click and blog this! Yes it works and is that simple
8. The "Shelf" is like the scrap book extension available for firefox. You can drag stuff from web pages and drop them into the shelf (cant do that with scrap book). You can drag these stired items into your bolg post (if your using the blogging feature of flock).
9. Wasnt able to test the flickr integration. Flock asks for the username. I am not sure how its going to login to my flickr account without the password!
