Flock for mac4/8/2023 Beyond that though, I just don’t see the purpose or need for another browser, and, although both Rockmelt and Flock should behave the same as Chrome, I wouldn’t bet they would always behave like Chrome when push came to shove. I admit, it’s very cool to use the Explore feature to search for a topic and see what my Twitter and Facebook friends have to say about it (click the image above to see an example). So now Flock is waving for our attention to remind us that the idea of a social web browser isn’t new, but even after trying it…I’m just not convinced. This was not always an easy task and consider I didn’t mind hacking install files sometimes to make things work, that’s saying something. With social media and social networks built into the core of the application, Flock ran fast and slick.īut then I ran into the problem of trying to get Firefox extensions I needed to run under Flock. It did a lot of cool things other browsers (read Firefox) needed a ton of plugins to do. Flock certainly must have been feeling the pressure with RockMelt not only horning in on their turf, but using the same browser engine as they were.Īfter seeing reports from GigaOm and Mashable that Flock 3.5 was out, I thought I’d take it for a spin. Today Flock released version 3.5 that not only supports Macs, but also jumps from Chromium 5 to Chromium 7 (for the beta crowd, Chrome itself is on v8 and dev builds are v9). The first product of this new direction, Flock 3.0, was Windows only. A move that also left Mac users in the dust. Regardless, in June of this year Flock announced that they were leaving the safe home of building on Mozilla for building on top of Chromium instead. I think Flock was around before everyone could join Facebook. Although fans of RockMelt might not remember, Flock was pulling in your social network stream long, long before RockMelt was even a mention. Flock was the first social media web browser.
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