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June 14, 2006

updates

Flock 0.7 released as Universal Binary

Posted Jun. 14, ’06, 12:27 PM PT by Aaron Freedman
Category | Software » Updates

Flock Remember Flock, the Mozilla-based social networking browser? Well, it’s back, and with a real bang. For one thing, Flock 0.7 Beta 1 is a Universal Binary, so it’ll run smoothly on Intel Macs. Also, the new version of Flock has much improved feed reading with a newspaper-like interface, better photo browsing and blogging, a much faster live-search, and a slew of other great features (Web Snippets and del.icio.us integration to name a few). Flock used to be my favorite web browser, and I still do hold it in high regard, as it tries to accomplish something amazing — have every web-based application you’ll ever need in a single app. With the full release of Flock 0.7 (which I have been following since it’s very early development stages), Flock is much better and more stable, though it is hard for me to let go of my dedicated applications in favor of it. For example, Flock doesn’t have the great OS X integration of Camino, the super-easy to use and fast interface of NetNewsWire, and the advanced features of ecto, though it has made a start (a Universal Binary, intuitive newsreading interface, and more advanced blogging features). Still, at this stage, I’ll prefer to use Flock on an occasional basis, but just not as my day-to-day web browser/newsreading/blogging application.


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