wired.com— Flock is a web browser that is based off of Firefox, but, according to Wired, will introduce a whole new social browsing experience. Expected to release in the first week of October.
Sep 18, 2005View in Crawl 4
"This is ghey.. Develop FOR firefox, not against."This is basically firefox... go here: <a class="user" href="http://www.flock.com/home/extensions/">http://www.flock.com/home/extensions/</a> Notice most are current FF extensions? It's my guess this sucker's based on FF, and is made by Google (I mean, c'mon people, didn't the invites give it away? Can you say, Gmail?). The site colors look too much like Blogger.com, too.And look at the bottom of the page:And no, we won't spam you, sell your address or do anything else but use this info to let you know when invites are available. We hate spam just as much as you!Oh and hey, wanna join the flock? We're hiring! So guess what? Send us your resume!"Sounds like Google developers talking, to me (They have a good sense of humour). Plus, they want to hire people... sounds like Google again.I'm almost positive Flock is developed by Google."
I think there should be a limit to how many browsers we use? Webdesigners have it hard enough coding for Mozilla, Firefox, IE and Safari. Any Netscape browsers and versions are now ignored and not supported by the general web standards and web design community.
Closed AccountSep 19, 2005
*their member siteso inside its like: breadcrumbs | tags | groups | people (social bookmarking s**t, etcx)
edmicmanSep 19, 2005
why not just make a new firefox extension or extension suite?
fortysevenSep 19, 2005
You certainly won't see anyone with poor eyesight complaining about the site. *cough*What is that? 150em? :P
mrzaikoSep 19, 2005
I submited the link with my friends name @ his house, its still me though. but thanx for wasting ur time searching. I love it
mrzaikoSep 19, 2005
No prob man haha, its ok
stanleyfreshSep 19, 2005
Uhhh... okay, this is just plain confusing. First, it's a digg ripoff & now it's a Firefox based browser? I'm just plain confused...<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/software/Flock_Looks_Exactly_Like_Digg_How_to_Log-In_and_See_for_Yourself_">http://digg.com/software/Flock_Looks_Exactly_Like_Digg_How_to_Log-In_and_See_for_Yourself_</a>
undisclosedpSep 19, 2005
IE of course being based on FireFox, and I mean Firefox never stole all of its ideas from Opera did it? No of course not. (BTW, that was sarcasm)
jay314Sep 19, 2005
@bittered:got any screenshots? i don't care about all this hype people are talking about.. i just want a list of features and a screenshot.
raanoSep 19, 2005
Could this be the new GBrowser? The timing is about right. Google is having some special event in October. Hmmm
thenikSep 21, 2005
Are they allowed to treat opensource code like that?
patrick_Oct 5, 2005
"This is ghey.. Develop FOR firefox, not against."This is basically firefox... go here: <a class="user" href="http://www.flock.com/home/extensions/">http://www.flock.com/home/extensions/</a> Notice most are current FF extensions? It's my guess this sucker's based on FF, and is made by Google (I mean, c'mon people, didn't the invites give it away? Can you say, Gmail?). The site colors look too much like Blogger.com, too.And look at the bottom of the page:And no, we won't spam you, sell your address or do anything else but use this info to let you know when invites are available. We hate spam just as much as you!Oh and hey, wanna join the flock? We're hiring! So guess what? Send us your resume!"Sounds like Google developers talking, to me (They have a good sense of humour). Plus, they want to hire people... sounds like Google again.I'm almost positive Flock is developed by Google."
t94xrMar 20, 2006
I think there should be a limit to how many browsers we use? Webdesigners have it hard enough coding for Mozilla, Firefox, IE and Safari. Any Netscape browsers and versions are now ignored and not supported by the general web standards and web design community.