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^ a b c 'Flock Named As One of PC World's '100 Best Products of 2008 ''.

^ 'Review: Strong, innovative Web browsers emerge'.

^ 'View and Share Media through the Media Bar'.

^ 'Share Pictures, Text, Audio and Video'.

^ 'Activate Services and Unite Your Social Networks in the People Sidebar'.

^ a b Official release announcement on Shawn Hardin's blog Archived October 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.

^ Van Grove, Jennifer (April 12, 2011).

^ 'Flock draws $15 million for social browsing'.

^ Flock Browser - Company Info Archived March 14, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.

'Support for Flock browsers has been discontinued'. 'End of the line for Flock social browser'.

'Top 10 specialty Web browsers you may have missed'.

^ a b c Wayner, Peter (October 19, 2010).

'Flock Browser Gets Faster, Friendlier With Upgrade'.

^ Flock Browser – Built on Mozilla's Firefox Archived March 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.

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ĬNET gave the Mac OS X version of Flock 1.0 the title of 'Best Mac Software of 2007'. 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. 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. įlock 2.5 integrated social networking and media services including MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Blogger, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, etc. Support for Flock was discontinued in April 2011.

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įlock was available as a free download, and supported Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and, at one time, Linux as well. Starting with version 3, Flock was based on Chromium and so used the WebKit rendering engine. Version 2.6.2, released on January 27, 2011, was the last version based on Mozilla Firefox. Įarlier versions of Flock used the Gecko HTML rendering engine by Mozilla. (February 1, 2011 10 years ago ( )) 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.

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