Wednesday, June 16, 2010

A beta of Flock browser based on Chromium

In March 2009 we reported that the Flock browser, based on the date of the Gecko rendering engine of Firefox, could be redesigned around the Chromium open source project. 15 months later it is done and a first beta is available for download for Windows.

Recall that Flock is a browser designed for users of community networks. Since its launch the software then prompts you to enter your login information on websites of Facebook, Twitter, Flickr or YouTube. A right side pane will track updates to contacts and post messages. Flock also offers a comprehensive management groups of all its contacts on different networks. To the left of the address bar, the development team has added a button to quickly share a page being read on Twitter or Facebook. Still in the spirit of community, the famous Omnibox of Chrome is here complemented by data published in your surroundings. Thus, for a given keyword entered in this field, published by hits from your contacts on different sites will be immediately returned. Finally enjoy the gallery Flock extensions originally developed for the Google Chrome browser.

The Flock browser would gather today, 8 million users worldwide. Through the feedback from these, the team said on its official blog that the functions of this new version are now more discreet for better ergonomics. Firefox would not have revealed quite powerful: "Chromium technology push our boundaries a little further and be consistent with our vision of software as fast as a rocket. On this platform we have no limits. "

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