Flock - The Social Web Browser

Flock Web BrowserFlock is a web browser heavily based upon Mozilla Firefox and other Mozilla technologies. Flock is also the name of the company developing the 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, Facebook, Del.icio.us, Technorati, Photobucket, and various popular blogging and news aggregation services.

Key Features

  • Personalize Flock and My World

My World collects together all of your favorite web sites, feeds and media, and puts it all just one click away. You can also easily personalize your My World page and many aspects of the Flock browser interface. For information about customizing other basic browser settings.

  • Enhanced Search Tools

Flock includes built-in enhancements for helping you find what you're looking for and keep track of your favorite websites. And if you like to use online favorite-sharing websites as well, then Flock's integrated tools are for you!

  • Media Bar

Using Flock's Media Bar, you can quickly preview online videos and photos, subscribe to video feeds, keep up to date on your friends' picture postings, search media files, send videos to friends with one click, and much more!

  • Share Pictures, Text and Video

With its built-in photo uploader, one-click Web Clipboard, and floating Magic Bar, Flock lets you share text, links, photos and even entire videos with your friends and co-workers with unprecedented ease and quickness.

  • Activate and Manage Blogs

Once you set up a blog in Flock, you can copy text, pictures and videos from anywhere on the web and instantly post them into Flock's Blog Editor or directly into your own blog. You can also monitor, manage and post to different blogs.

  • Get or Build Add-ons for Flock

Flock allows third parties to create extensions or add-ons that extend the capabilities of the browser. Many Firefox extensions work with Flock, but some do not (trial and error is the best way to find out). Please note: Extensions can and will slow down Flock (and Firefox), and should be used wisely. Flock's quality performance is not guaranteed if you have extensions installed.

System Requirements

  • Windows

Operating Systems
Windows 98
Windows 98 SE
Windows ME
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 2000
Windows XP (Recommended)
Windows Vista
Minimum Hardware
  • Pentium 233 MHz (Recommended: Pentium 500MHz or greater)
  • 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater)
  • 52 MB hard drive space
At the time, we could not locate any system requirements for Flock. The system requirements listed are that of Firefox, which Flock is heavily based upon.

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Flock is another tabbed browser, which it should be, considering it comes from the Firefox codebase. However, Flock has been geared towards social networking. With many new features aimed specifically at browsing social web sites such as Myspace, Flickr, etc. So if you find yourself on many of these social web sites then Flock might just be the web browser for you.

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Last modified: 2007-11-23

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