Flock Launches

Firefox-based Social Browser Flock Launches: "daria42 writes 'The much-hyped Flock, a new browser based on Mozilla Firefox and integrating features like RSS feeds, blogging tools, the del.icio.us social bookmarking and Flickr photo sharing services has just launched a public developer preview to the world. Flock is being driven by a team of developers being led by Bart Decrem, a well-known open source developer who co-founded the ill-fated Eazel project back in 1999 and has been involved with both the Mozilla and GNOME foundations. On his blog this week he says Flock won't be forking the Firefox codebase.'"

I bit and tried Flock out. Very interesting. The 1.0 version which looks like it is based on the Firefox 1.5b is very stable as a browser. The other new features (blogging, flickr integration, rss, etc.) are pretty far along but a bit buggy. Flock has serious potential and the 1.0 version just might pull me over from Firefox (oh wait it is Firefox...perfect!). I really like the integrated blogging and del.icio.us support.