Flock (web browser)

Flock
Image:Flock icon.png
Image:Flock browser screenshot xp.png Flock 0.7.1 beta release
Maintainer:	Flock, Inc.
Stable release:	not yet released _[+/-]
Preview release:	0.7.8 (Cardinal) (November 10, 2006) _[+/-]
OS:	Cross-platform
Use:	Web browser
License:	GPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license
Website:	www.flock.com

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Flock is both a web browser heavily based upon Mozilla Firefox and other Mozilla technologies, and is also the name of the company developing the web browser. Flock's creators call it a "social browser", due to its ability to interact with popular social networking web services. Such web services include Flickr, Del.icio.us, Technorati, Photobucket, and various popular blogging and news aggregation services.

[edit] Features

The first technology preview released on June 22, 2006 had the following features:

Bookmarks, in addition to being saved offline, can be replaced with del.icio.us. When a bookmark (known as a favorite) is added, it is added to the user's del.icio.us account
Favorites can be tagged
A favorites and history are integrated into the favorites manager
Built-in full-text search using Clucene. Search as you type for pages in the cache
Flickr integration
Technorati tagging
Blogging tools
News aggregation
"Drag-and-drop" capability and a clipboard like feature known as "The Shelf."
Built-in spellcheck capability

Additional features in recent preview releases:

Private bookmarking is supported with the introduction of the ability to store bookmarks at Shadows.
A Yahoo! Maps topbar has been introduced. Addresses can be dragged into the topbar, whereupon they will be mapped by Yahoo! Maps. This feature was then removed, to be re-introduced at a later date. On July 17, 2006, the Yahoo! Maps Topbar was reintroduced as an extension.
Uploading images to Photobucket is now supported.