Flock changes engine to WebKit

We here at MozInfo701 and SillyDog701 haven't spent a great attention on Flock browser based on Mozilla Firefox codebase and focused on the social networking. According to Electronista, Flock 3.0 beta is out now, and it uses Google's Chromium and its WebKit engine. (Chromium is the open source web browser project from which Google Chrome draws its source code.)

Flock 3 supports Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr, the most popular in their respective categories. The browser resembles Google Chrome and Apple Safari as it's WebKit based. It will also have what's being called the first sidebar application in Chromium: the extra area is built in HTML5 and will show updates from friends without leaving the current website.

Flock 3.0 beta is currently available for Windows platform, while the Mac version is due in July. Flock will continue to support the older, Mozilla-based browser, and expects to release version 2.6.

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