Flock is a free web browser that makes it easier than ever to share photos, stay up-to-date with news from your favorite sites, get search results as soon as you start typing in the search box, and much more.
Okay, enough with the spiffy marketing copy already, although every bit of it is true. But before I talk about the Flock Experience, a quick history lesson for youngsters.
The first browser I ever used was Mosaic. I still have the Mosaic HTML book released by O’Reilly and Associates which included the Mosaic installer on floppy disk. Then came Netscape Navigator, and the browsing experience improved dramatically. The landscape is littered with browsers that are now extinct, and some that should be extinct (IE). Why mention this bit of history? Because it set the stage for what became Firefox today, and the Flock browser is based on Firefox code.
So why should you try Flock when you are perfectly happy with IE, Firefox, or Safari? Because Flock includes several expansions to improve the user experience — especially those in the social networking class — that Firefox doesn’t have.
Once Flickr or Photobucket account is set up in Flock, uploading images is a snap. You simply bring up the Photo Uploader tool, drag and drop images, tag them and upload. It’s that easy. And if you want to view all your photos quickly, you can use PhotoBar, which allows you to scroll through thumbnails of all your photos. But that’s not all. You can also view your friend’s photos and groups that you subscribe to in the same manner. Wicked. Blogging is also a snap. Simply bring up the tool, type a quick article and upload. Done!
The search tool is unique in that it delivers results as you type.
Although I must say that my favorite tool is My News reader. I can check out all of my well-organized, RSS feeds in one convenient window. Oops! There are more than a few RSS reader app companies out there that don’t want you to try Flock. 
In conclusion, the last item I would like to applaud is the clean interface. Everything works beautifully together. It is the best tabbed browser I have experienced. I can almost see Safari.app looking up at Flock.app in the Applications directory with a disgruntled smirk.
Flock is available for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, and is available in several different languages.
For all of those who enjoy the Flock Experience, I created a 3D desktop you can download from Flickr. And be sure to check out the Flock Art group on Flickr for more great art. Enjoy!
UPDATE: I have seen many tools to convert Firefox extensions to Flock extensions, but I was able to get GoogleBar for Firefox (available on the web from Google, but only as a web install, NOT a stand-alone installer) installed on my Mac without them (Google’s web site tell you that it does not work with your browser if you try to install it into Flock directly). I installed the GoogleBar into Firefox, and then copied the resultiing extensions folder to the Flock extensions folder. Then I was able to hack the install.rdf file by adding the follwoing code in the target applications section (from Flock wiki):
<!– Target Application – Flock –>
<em:targetApplication>
<Description>
<em:id>{a463f10c-3994-11da-9945-000d60ca027b}</em:id>
<em:minVersion>0.7</em:minVersion>
<em:maxVersion>1.0</em:maxVersion>
</Description>
</em:targetApplication>
Voila! Sweetness. GoogleBar in Flock.
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