What the Flock?!
There’s a new web browser in town. Namely, the developer version of Flock Browser is now available for download. So far I like it because my pages render well in it without breakage. At least that’s telling me the bowser is off to a good start. It’s supposed to be a “social” browser to faciliate sharing and community.
The following is from the Flock home page:
Flock is a free, open source web browser.
[…] that it should be easy for everyone to contribute to and participate on the web. To that end, we’ve started with integrating tools that make it easier to blog, publish your photos and share and discover things that are interesting to you. Flock crew
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: January 25th, 2006 at 5:13 pm →
Update: I’ve been testing it more. It’s like a cross between Firefox and Opera in many ways. It supports tabbed browsing and I suspect it will have other developer-oriented features. It also uses the Gecko rendering engine and seems to be standards compliant. I like it so far but I still need to learn more about it.
Neal V. responds:
Posted: January 25th, 2006 at 10:41 pm →
You’re right that pages will look the same - Flock is built off of Firefox 1.0. I’m not particularly fond of it, but I have nothing against it. This is a good thing, browser competition is very good for the market. Plus, it’s built off of the very nice Gecko rendering engine, so it furthers standards. How far it actually goes, I don’t know, it’s not even 1.0 yet. The more standards compliant browsers, the better off the web will be.
Fabian responds:
Posted: February 4th, 2006 at 1:50 am →
hmmm another browser what for?
Mike Cherim responds:
Posted: February 4th, 2006 at 2:09 am →
Competition. Keep everyone improving their product. Kinda car models. How many do we really need. But the competetion is good for the consumer (most of the time).
This one does have a number of cool features that will be coming out on more browsers as new versions or our old favorites (and no-so-favorites, IE, ahem) are released. It’s actually slightly ahead of the curve.