Comments on: Flock: Goodbye Mozilla, Hello Chrome?

By: Flock Gets Even More Social, Contemplates Its Future | Technologizer

Tue, 19 May 2009 23:38:17 +0000

[...] ready to talk about a Firefox 3.5-based edition of Flock. In fact, when I asked him about rumors from last March that Flock intended to dump Mozilla for Google’s Chrome platform, he said that everything was up for consideration at this point, including jumping to a new [...]

By: DaveZatz

DaveZatz — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:29:25 +0000

yep, I agree with Alan. Not sure I see the value in their browser, which will always trail Firefox or Chrome in the dev cycle. I’ve been running the beta FF 3.1, with new JS rendering, engine for months now. Also, i know ALL FF extensions will work in FF.

By: Alan Ralph

Alan Ralph — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:11:08 +0000

To be honest, I think Flock’s biggest problem has been that you can bolt on most of the extra functionality to Firefox in a couple of minutes, and more importantly customise it to your requirements, whilst still benefiting from Mozilla’s rapid (compared to Microsoft) patching of their browser to counter security issues.