Flock, the browser, releases Public Beta

Back in October of '05 I first talked about a developer beta of Flock, a web browser built on Firefox. Well now Flock has released an official beta (version 0.7). I'm using it right now and it looks very good. Flock supports Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux and is free for download (of course). The look and feel is better (in my opinion) than Firefox and I was able to import bookmarks, RSS feeds, and everything else in less than a second.

The default search engine is Yahoo but you can easily change that. Flock stresses photos with built-in Flickr and Photobucket support. Not only does Flock have Live Bookmarks like Firefox but it also has a Feed reader where you can look at the articles themselves.


Flock also has built-in blogging where you can drag and drop photos. In Flock you can also favorite sites and tag them via del.icio.us. Although it works great and I really like Flock I'm not going to use it. I have a lame reason but it is important to me. The kicker was that with the live bookmarks I couldn't drag and see the RSS feeds. To see the RSS feeds you have to click every single seperate feed. I like to save time and Firefox allows me to do that.

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