What the Flock? A new Web browser? That’s right – the folks at a new company called Flock have developed a new Web browser built on Mozilla (the guys behind the beloved Firefox Web browser). Flock is a new browser made especially for bloggers and social networking freaks like me (and probably you).
Flock is a powerful Web browser built on the Firefox architecture. It has everything Firefox has (including extensions), but it also has everything a social network power user could want – including a built in sidebar they call the “People Sidebar” that connects you to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and more, a “MediaBar” that lets you subscribe to your friends photos, videos and more and alerts you when they upload new media anywhere on the Web, and probably coolest of all – the Facebook SocialBar stays active at the bottom of the browser, alerting you of new IMs and Facebook updates, even when you visit other sites besides Facebook.
Don’t worry, you can use your Firefox Extensions in Flock!
Admitedly, I first ran into Flock a couple months ago and didn’t even give it a chance. I’m so dependant on my Firefox extensions that I can’t live without them. But what I didn’t realize the first time is that any Firefox extension works with Flock. In fact, to add them to Flock you visit the same Add-ons page on the Mozilla Website and install them the same way as Firefox. Everything from Shareaholic, Better Gmail, PingFire, PowerTwitter, and more work perfectly for me in Flock just as they do in Firefox.
The list of integrated features goes on and on – from Webmail, to RSS feeds, and more. If you use Facebook, Twitter or any other social networking sites – or if you’re a blogger – then try Flock and you’ll quickly realize how easier it makes using the Internet. Bloggers will especially love the way it connects with your blog (whether that be Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad, etc). In fact, this blog post was created using the Flock Blog Editor.
Go to http://www.flock.com to download Flock and try it out.
Even when Chrome comes out with Extensions its going to be hard to pull me away from Flock – we’ll just have to wait and see. Try it out and let me know in the comments how you like it.
