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I’m sure people these days are a little numb when it comes to anything Flock related. I don’t have the slightest clue why? I for one will never tire of reading anything concerning Flock.

If you haven’t jumped on the Flock bandwagon just yet, you can achieve much of the same features from within Firefox thanks to a few handy extensions. Want to learn how to be a Flockstar poser?

Slick look – You can’t pose as a Flock user without the skin. Download FloFox and get the “look”.

Tastes del.icio.us – One of the highlighted features built directly into Flock is tight integration with the del.icio.us social bookmarking service. Interested in similar tagging functionality directly from the Firefox toolbar? Check out the recenly released del.icio.us Firefox extension [official]. The extension looks right at home in your browser toolbar. Naysayers will look twice at the smooth del.icio.us integration. Note our tutorial: How-To: Quickly post to Del.icio.us.

Fantastic Flickr – Flock utilizes one smooth looking topbar which is hard to match. The whole browser is eyecandy. Serving triple duty as an image browser, uploader, and resource for blogging, the topbar can’t be topped. Unfortunately, the closest extension Firefox users have is FlickrFox. Browse and search images from within your Firefox sidebar. Firefox users wishing for uploading functionality from within the browser might want to check the Send To Flickr Bookmarklet Javascript Code.

Badass Blogging – One of my favorite features Flock offers is integrating blogging. Offering drag n’ drop functionality with auto blockquotes and citations, users can highlight text on webpages and drag directly on to the Flock ‘Shelf’. It’s blogging on the fly. Unfortunately, snazzy drag n’ drop blogging can’t be reproduced on Firefox but the JustBlogIt extension offers a great deal of blogging flexibility. JustBlogIt supports the following: Blogger, Drupal, LiveJournal, Movable Type, Radio Userland, TextPattern, TypePad, WordPress, journalspace, b2evolution and BLOG:CMS. And don’t forget the Spellbound extension for right-click spell checking. No one likes correcting your spelling mistakes.

Update 12/23: Firefox recently received a swift kick in the pants for blogging compliments of a smooth extension by the name of Performancing for Firefox.

Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox. Just hit F8 or click the little pencil icon at the bottom right to bring up the blog editor and easily post to your Wordpress, MovableType or Blogger blogs.

I have been playing around with the Performancing extension for the past few days and have yet to find any faults. A split screen, fully featured blog editor which handles a variety of blogging platforms, categories, rich text, live preview, and the ability to save posts as notes for later reference.

I’ve just found a replacement for the JustBlogIt extension mentioned above.