Flock is released

New, alternative browser Flock has finally been released. My attempts to get an earlier beta version were firmly rebuffed despite my best efforts.

If you haven’t heard of Flock, there are a few articles that will bring you up to speed: Wired, Business Week, Paul Stamatiou.com and Solution Watch.

It’s based on the Firefox 1.5 beta but offers a much more friendly, Web 2.0 view of the net. I fooled around with the mac version before work and continued at work with the Windows version. I found it mildly amusing that the Windows version only offered to import Internet Explorer favorites. Any one who is still using that POS has no intention of switching to a new browser. Certainly not one as new and untried as this one.

From what I’ve been reading it’s not too stable and they have labeled it a ‘developer version 0.4.9′ so crashes should be expected. Still it looks really cool and integrates nicely with a number of web services like del.icio.us, Flickr and the world of blogs.

It’s not ready for prime time just yet but it looks promising. I think I’ll start to test the nightly builds much as I did in the early days of what was to become Firefox. It’s been a long time since I’ve done that but I still have my Bugzilla account. I think.

A weekend of geeking out is afoot…