PC World's Harry McCracken reviewed Flock as his "New Favorite Web Browser".
In December 2007, Flock won the Mashable Open Web Awards for Applications and Widgets and in March 2008, Flock won the South By Southwest Web Award for Community.ĬNET gave the Mac OS X version of Flock 1.0 the title of "Best Mac Software of 2007".
6 on PC World's list of the 100 best products of 2008 Support for third-party add-ons, including a number of Firefox extensions.A Webkit-mail component allowing users to check supported web-based email off site, compose new messages, and drag-and-drop pictures and videos from the "Media Bar" or webclipboard into a new email message.A blog editor and reader, allowing direct posting into any designated blog.A feed reader supporting Atom, RSS, and Media RSS feeds.A "Media Bar" showing preview of online videos and photos as well as subscription to photo and video feeds.Native sharing of text, links, photos and videos.Flock 2.5 added Twitter Search functionality, multi-casting of status updates to multiple services, and the introduction of instant messaging via Facebook Chat in the browser. When logging into any of the supported social services, Flock could track updates from friends: profiles, uploaded photos, and more. The browser has been discontinued, with support ending April 26, 2011.įlock 2.5 integrated social networking and media services including MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Blogger, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, etc. The company's previous investors, Bessemer Venture Partners, Catamount Ventures, and Shasta Ventures, also participated in the round. Flock raised $15 million in a fourth round of funding led by Fidelity Ventures on May 22, 2008, for an estimated total of $30 million, according to CNET. Bart Decrem and Geoffrey Arone co-founded the company. Support for Flock was discontinued in April 2011.įlock was the successor to Round Two, who raised money from Bessemer Venture Partners, Catamount Ventures, Shasta Ventures and other angel investors.
Starting with version 3, Flock was based on Chromium and so used the WebKit rendering engine.įlock was available as a free download, and supported Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and, at one time, Linux as well. Version 2.6.2, released on January 27, 2011, was the last version based on Mozilla Firefox. Now, I’m using flock to access all my accounts in one place and its never been so easy to twitter, facebook, upload links on delicious and many more./ 1 February 2011 11 years ago ( 1 February 2011)Ĭatalan, Chinese (both Traditional and Simplified), English (US, Australian, British, Canadian), Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal + African Portuguese Speaking Countries and Brazil), Russian, Slovak, Spanish (Latin American and Spain)įlock is a discontinued web browser that specialized in providing social networking and Web 2.0 facilities built into its user interface.Įarlier versions of Flock used the Gecko HTML rendering engine by Mozilla. After downloading and using Flock 2.5, I must say that I’ve NEVER enjoyed social networking as much as I have over the past few days. You really got to give it to these people. That’s what they advertise themselves as and let me tell you THAT’S WHAT THEY ARE. So back to the question: Who are they?įlock is the award winning social web browser powered by Mozilla. If they have been all the rage, forgive me, I am a self confessed “late developer” and am definitely not ahead of the curve on such things. Not surprisingly, I never felt the need to test out the other web browsers….that is until I chance upon Flock. Being a lazy person, I would say that I’ve been using IE and Firefox for the longest time and between the both of them, they have always met my needs. The popular ones, of course, are IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari.
Nowadays, there are so many other alternative web browsers out there to suit your needs and they can be such a breeze to download, install and use. Long gone are the days that we had to stick with the default web browser Internet Explorer and be satisfied.