Flock Switches To Chromium For New Beta

An anonymous reader writes "Flock, the social networking browser, has moved from Firefox open source code to Chromium in its latest beta. The new Flock is essentially a combination of Chrome and TweetDeck, as you can sign in to Twitter and Facebook accounts and look at a single feed that incorporates updates from both. Currently, the beta is only available on Windows, but a Mac version is slated for later this year."

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No more Fireflock. What next?

[cupantae]

I know that this doesn't really matter to Mozilla per se, but Firefox is coming under some tough times in the near future. I have to say, I do fear for the future of my favourite browser (my favourite by a mile, dispite its flaws).

They're soon losing the Google funding and support (probably).
They seem to be not taking ANYONE's side on anything.
H.264
Ubuntu, even, seem like they'll switch to a custom Chromium browser in the next couple of releases.
They don't seem to be leading the market in features at all any more, and only seem to limply suggest that it's the best by focusing on security (note: I DO think it's the best, what I mean is the public image).

Do other Firefox fans feel that the market might deem it unnecessary or out of touch?

Re:No more Fireflock. What next?

[bunratty]

Why would they be losing Google's funding, and if they do, why wouldn't they be able to get funding elsewhere? If Ubuntu switches to a different browser, Firefox will lose only a small fraction of its users. I don't think they've ever lead the market in features; they've led the market in quality. You may have a point on H.264, but they're making an ideological stand to support only freely available technologies. If they need to support H.264, they'll do it.