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The emergence of Firefox has forced all browser designers to rethink their product after a decade of stagnation - Microsoft will soon release Explorer 7, its answer to Firefox - as the public expects more and more features and innovation, and the open-source community will be careful not to let the market slow down again.The Flock developers have announced the release of version 3.5 of their social web browser based on Google's open source Chromium platform – versions previous to the 3.x branch were based on Firefox. Flock is aimed at a niche market, albeit a very large niche. 'The good news for those folks is that there are already hundreds of Firefox extensions, many of them aimed at integrating social services into the browser.'Įssentially, Firefox is in no real danger at the moment. Of course, there will be many people who are perfectly happy with Firefox and are not interested in trying a new browser. 'In the short term, that means that fewer people will play with our stuff, but over the long term we believe it's the right way to go for us.

'We don't want to break anyone's Firefox experience, or have our browser break due to updates either way that have not been fully tested and propagated.

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'We want to be able to offer our users a complete end-to-end user experience, including a single browser download, an update service, technical support. He explains on his blog why Flock has launched a separate browser rather than just a Firefox extension that could be added on to the parent product, and stresses his good intentions. The founder and chief executive of Flock, Bart Decrem, who has worked extensively with Firefox in the past, is keen to dismiss these fears. Similar projects will probably surface, with the potential to fragment the burgeoning opposition to Explorer just as it gets into its stride. If it is successful - and it has the media coverage, backing and features to be - Flock will almost certainly take users away from Firefox more so than Explorer.

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However, as it is based on the Firefox code, it is already very stable, and the company is aiming for a full release by December 15th. Some of these features are available as add-ons to Firefox or through portals like Yahoo!, but Flock integrates them seamlessly.įlock is still in development mode, so although it is available to the public, it's liable to cause your computer to crash. This is particularly convenient as blogging can be a labour-intensive project on a daily basis, and any way to make it easier will be welcomed by the community.įlock also makes it easier to share files, photos and bookmarked pages with the rest of the web, or to view feeds from news sites or other blogs. Users can click straight through to their blogs rather than having to sign in every time, or highlight a chunk of text and transfer it directly into a post. For instance, Flock aims to 'take the headache out of blogging'.

The idea is to help users connect with people rather than just websites. Of course, if terms like Flickr, RSS and mean nothing to you and the web is just a handy place to book flights, then Flock is not the product for you.īut increasingly, people are looking to the web not just as a source of information, but as interaction, and these social networking applications are where they are going. In doing so, they have incorporated all the hottest web technologies of the past few years in one tidy package: weblogging, tagging, RSS feeds, photo sharing, social bookmarking. Flock's creators have looked at the social networking side of the web and packed their product with features to make interaction easier. Using this process, a Californian start-up company has released a new browser, Flock, based on the Firefox source code.

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