Flock 0.7.6 review

Flock is the ultimate web browser based on the popular Firefox. Welcome to the Flock Developer Preview, aka the Flock 0.5pre devel

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 9600K Developer: Flock Development Team

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Flock is the ultimate web browser based on the popular Firefox.

Welcome to the Flock Developer Preview, aka the Flock 0.5pre developer snapshot. If you have made it this far, chances are that you are aware of the risks associated with software that is nestled somewhere between the alpha and beta states.

While we are very excited about what we are doing, we want to make sure that you have been fully forewarned that this browser will crash from time to time and that any settings you save in this browser may quite possibly be erased, lost, or overwritten! Please have a backup of your blog posts and your shared bookmarks! Given that, we strongly recommend that you proceed with caution. Still here? Great!

So before you get started, please read through these release notes. This will give you some of the relevant information you will need to get up and running. Also, if you have general questions about Flock, who we are, what we do, and how we get away with it, please check out flock.com. Thanks for your interest in Flock; we hope you enjoy your stay.

Flock Developer Preview includes a number of features and services that make it fun and easy to talk back to the web and organize, share and retrieve interesting web pages.

Here are some key features of "Flock":
The Blog Manager
The Flickr Topbar
RSS integration
Favorites with del.icio.us integration
The Shelf
History Search

Flock Developer Preview is now available.

Our code couldn't wait any longer to be free!

But! This preview ain't for the faint of heart! If you're the bleeding-edge type and don't mind a few scrapes and busted knees from time to time, feel free to give it a whirl.

We've got interesting ideas in this thing. We want to know what we've done right how we could improve. And we've got a lot of work ahead of us!

Flock still doesn't import your Firefox or IE favorites
Flock does support Flash, but other plug-ins have NOT been tested
While we have ten or so of the most popular Firefox extensions working, we need to come up a way to make most Firefox extensions working in Flock and/or cajole extension authors to make their extensions work with Flock
A weird timestamp/debug window shows up when you publish a blog post. We're on the case. But your post will get published just fine
Firefox themes do not work with Flock
Choice! We like it as much as you do, but we must crawl before we can walk. While we support a number of blogging platforms, we don't yet offer a choice of social bookmark services or photo sharing services
Blogging platforms: WordPress and Blogger work pretty well. There are some problems still with Movable Type. We haven't tested any other blogging platforms
Bad things happen if you say "Yes, share my bookmarks" and then don't enter del.icio.us account info

Finally, there is a list of several hundred bug reports and ideas for feature improvements, including some bugs that will make your browser crash. So consider this software experimental, and be prepared for crashes and occasional data losses. We do not recommend that you use Flock 0.5 as your main web browser.