Final goodbye for early web icon......FUTURE BROWSER IS HERE....FLOCK

Flock Browser - The Social Web Browser

I've heard about Flock from Justin and I've been thinking of downloading it. Now ever since my IE has started behaving weird , I decided that its high time i download this one of a kind browser.

Firefox is the main competitor to IE, particularly in Europe where it has a 28% market share, according to some statistics.
The open source browser's development iscoordinated by the Mozilla foundation, set up by Netscape staff made redundant in 2003. It has had more than 500 million downloads worldwide and in countries such as Finland it is the most popular browser.
'Competition is what brings quality," said Ms Baker.

Flock describes itself as "the social web
browser" and allows people to see feeds from community websites, such
as Flickr and Facebook, and post to blogs without having to navigate to
the page.

"There are lots of ways that people are

engaging in having a conversation and Flock is very focused on making
that as effortless and convenient as possible," said Mr Hardin.

However, not all Netscape users are happy about having to change browser.
"I'm sad. Flock still needs improvement

and I am not happy with Firefox's interface. I'm [an] orphan!" read one
post on the Netscape blog.

Others who posted comments on the blog predicted the browser will make a return.

"Netscape is a wonderful browser, and it will be so in the future," read one.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7270583.stm


[excerpts from Wiki]


Flock is a web browser heavily based upon Mozilla Firefox
and other Mozilla technologies. Flock is also the name of the company
developing the browser. Flock's creators call it a "social browser",
due to its ability to interact with popular social networking web services. Such web services include Flickr, Del.icio.us, Technorati, Photobucket, and various popular blogging and news aggregation services.

Features

The current beta release has the following feature differences from Firefox:

• Flock's
  custom homepage, "My World", tells you when your friends have new
  photos and videos and when you have new feeds. My World gives quick
  access to your recently visited favorite sites as well.
• Bookmarks, in addition to being saved offline, can be replaced with del.icio.us. When a bookmark (known as a favorite) is added, it is added to the user's del.icio.us account.
• Favorites can be tagged
• A favorites and history section are integrated into the favorites manager
• Built-in full-text search using Clucene. Search as you type for pages in the cache
• Flickr and Photobucket integration
• Technorati tagging
• Blogging tools
• News aggregator
• "Drag-and-drop" capability and a clipboard like feature known as "The Shelf."
• Media Mini Bar, allows you to search, stream, and view content off of sites like YouTube and Truveo.
• Built in uploader, to submit content to flickr and photobucket

Many of these features can be attained through extensions for Firefox. del.icio.us Bookmarks, developed by Yahoo!, Inc., provides integration with del.icio.us online bookmarks. Fotofox, developed as an official extension by the Mozilla Corporation, integrates with Flickr. Sage provides a built in news reader, similar to Thunderbird's.

Blogged with the Flock Browser