Flock is a web browser that combines integrated photo sharing, social
networking with RSS support.
Bloggers are a target audience for Flock, which is based on the Mozilla
Firefox, because it has been designed to keep people up to date with news, blogs
and when friends appear online.
Favourite websites can be kept up to date with other computers that a user
may have access to by using the del.icio.us and shadows services. These websites
can then be shared with other users,
Flock organises news from RSS feeds in a pane rather than as bookmarks. Each
feed is checked for new stories hourly. Flock shows an incon in the address bar
to show that a feed is available from that page. Simply click on that icon to
sign up.
Flock can automatically add photos and snippets of other webpages to blogs
written with Blogger, LiveJournal, Typepad and WordPress. A special web snippets
bar has been added to store quotes from other websites. Users simply drag
pictures onto the Photo icon to upload, or drag and drop images which are
automatically stored on to a Flickr or PhotoBucket account.
Search with Flock is slightly different from other browsers because as text
is typed in, Flock will start searching from the web as well as a user's
favourites and history. These initial results are shown in a drop down menu.
Note that this is the major release of v2 based on Firefox 3.