I find it hard to believe how much they got accomplished in one very, very long day!

Thanks for the parable of the doors vs. the pears, but remember there are some of us, call us "the ancients," who once lived in a world that wasn't binary, or at least we didn't know it yet. In that world there were an infinite number of points along a continuum, call it an analog world, where things didn't get categorized as either "on" or "off." And I guess I'm a little nostalgic for the good old days. I'm all for designers/developers making decisions about what the default condition is, but I retain the hope that they might be wise enough to also give the user the choice of what he or she wants by building in choice. And what's more, I'm willing to argue for it, in the hope that the best of both worlds, the old and the new, can exist in this piece of software.

I see no need for you to rush out to grab each new build of Flock now or ever, for that matter, if you are happy with what you have. After all, we are just now coming up on the first beta of this program. But the reason I do it is that I want a voice in determining how it turns out, and I can't have that say by standing off and waiting until "it's soup."

I appreciate your chipping in with your thoughts. In response to the question, "coffee or tea?" I was always fond of responding, "both!"

There are two camps here, one solves all problems with choice (not sure what you want, so I give you the option) and the other solves all problems with defaults (you don’t know what you want, and you’ll like this better anyway). Call them…. Doors vs. Pears. The perfection then lies in the middle (so a logical developer would think), but when the sides see this as a religious argument… well, religion is not known for finding an agreeable middle ground.

With FireFox and the extreme number of extensions I can (and have) put together 90% of what I want. I could get 95% if I went and looked into more extensions. This is flock’s big problem (as I see it); if I don’t like one of the choices forced on me it’s far to easy just to stay with FireFox. Indeed, because of your posts (and Daryl’s) on the latest build not being exactly to my liking I haven’t even bothered to check it out myself. (If I, or my choice, matters enough to be of any importance, I can’t say).