Browser Security News

A few months ago, I wrote that Flock, the social-media browser built on top of Firefox, had become my new favorite browser. It still is–and today, the Flock folks released a beta of version 1.1. It’s got no earthshaking new features, but is sure worth a look if you like inventive Web tools.

Flock Inc. this week added MySpace support to its Mozilla-based social Web browser that allows users to monitor what is happening on their favorite social networks while they surf the Web.

Flock 1.0 delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users are in control and more connected to what’s important to them. By automatically managing updates and media from popular social services such as Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, and Twitter, Flock makes sharing with friends and services drag-and-drop easy.

…I’ve been using the iteration billed at the beta version of Flock 1.0 for the past few days. And I’m so impressed that I’ve done something I didn’t see myself anytime soon: I’ve dumped Firefox as my primary gateway to the Web. For now, I’m using Flock as my default browser on both my desktop […]

Mozilla has released details on The Coop, a new product that will incorporate social networking features directly into the Firefox browser. This is not good news for the privately-backed social browser Flock (also built on Mozilla), which is yet to release a 1.0 version of its browser. Many of the proposed features and some of […]

A UK developer who goes by “Tones” has created a Flock-specific extension that puts Meebo, and therefore Yahoo, AIM, Gtalk and MSN IM, directly into a sidebar in the Flock browser (the extension also works for Firefox). Since Flock and Meebo are two startups I use, this looked interesting.

Flock is a "social browser" built on the Firefox code base, which integrates blogging, photo sharing with Flickr or Photobucket, "favorites" (a.k.a. bookmarks) using del.icio.us or Shadows, and other collaborative features. Last November I took a look at an early Flock release, and found it to be interesting, if a little bit rough. The Flock […]