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Firefox-based Social Browser Flock Launches

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hitting-the-streets dept.

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."

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  1. Browser UI by afree87 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hmm... it has gradients... it has shadows... why, this must be Web 2.0!

    1. Re:Browser UI by fireman+sam · · Score: 3, Funny

      You spell it prOn

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    2. Re:Browser UI by danbeck · · Score: 3, Funny

      I bet you are a fun one at parties, aren't ya? You need a hug.

  2. The greatest feature... by brian0918 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The "Go back" and "Go forward" buttons have merged into an all powerful "stay here" button.

    1. Re:The greatest feature... by CyricZ · · Score: 5, Funny

      To me it looks like a pair of breasts. A pair of breasts with pointy nipples. Pointy nipples pointing sideways.

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    2. Re:The greatest feature... by brian0918 · · Score: 5, Funny

      " To me it looks like a pair of breasts. A pair of breasts with pointy nipples."

      So is the refresh button a titty twister?

  3. Social Browser? by connah0047 · · Score: 5, Funny

    A social browser is what you contract from visiting too many websites.

  4. What I need..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...is an anti-social browser.

    1. Re:What I need..... by grasshoppa · · Score: 4, Funny

      ...is an anti-social browser.

      So a browser that hates you enough to try to kill you, or failing that, your computer at every turn? One that does it's own thing, regardless of what you tell it to do, and when you finally manage to get it to do what you want, it does it half assed?

      Wait...I think I just described IE.

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    2. Re:What I need..... by Stevyn · · Score: 3, Funny

      na, IE is like the village whore. After a few hours she's got tons of viruses.

  5. A new record.... by telstar · · Score: 3, Funny

    From installation to uninstallation in 10 minutes...
    Yeah, I've already got a browser that works for me. Thanks anyway flockers...