Flock is een browser die gebruikmaakt van Mozilla Firefox en zich wil onderscheiden van andere browsers door het sociale aspect dat deze browser met zich meebrengt. Het wordt namelijk standaard geleverd met diverse opties voor de gebruiker om te interageren met het internet. Deze sociale mogelijkheden bestaan onder andere uit bookmarkopslag en -publicatie via de populaire webservice van del.icio.us, foto-opslag via de website Flickr, automatische aanmelding en organisatie van rss-feeds en directe ondersteuning voor het schrijven van berichten voor weblogs. De ontwikkelaars hebben recent een nieuwe versie beschikbaar gesteld met 0.7.3 als het versienummer. De aankondiging ziet er als volgt uit:
This is an incremental release that has some bug fixes; but notable new features include Photobucket sub-album and Flickr set browsing and uploading, photo comment signatures, and OPML export of news feeds. You can download it now, but we haven't turned on the auto update yet because we're probably going to release a small update to this one to fix a few bugs we found, very soon. The 0.7.3 maintenance release for 0.7 has bug fixes in several areas:[break]
- Photo
- Photobucket sub-album and Flickr set browsing and uploading. Allow users to refine photos displayed in photobar by album.
- Several bug fixes for photobucket and flock integration
- Extensions
- Allow extensions that haven't been modified for flock to be installed. Users will be warned that the extension has not been tested with flock but will be allowed to proceed. Note that this feature has been partially available since 0.7.1. If you have installed unmodified extensions you will see a warning, "This update will cause some of your extensions and/or themes to stop working until they are updated.", during the upgrade which can be ignored.
- Spread flock feature. Allow flock users to opt into adding a flock tagline to photos dragged from the photobar or the from the desktop into a text area
- Setup (First Run) experience enhancements
- Bug fixes, better discovery of current configuration and UI treatments
- Added option to allow anonymous statistics to be gathered during initial setup. This will allow Flock to further streamline and simplify the setup experience.
- Other
- Added OPML export to My News
- Blog Editor fix for editing text in source view window
- Updated to use new deli.cio.us API