Well, I guess it is web browser week here at Kyle’s Cove, which means it has been a great week for me!  First I talked a bit about Netscape 9.0 and Firefox 2.0, then Firefox 3.0, and now I get to write a brief post about Flock 1.0, which just recently became available to beta testers.

It looks like some bloggers have already been playing around with it and have written some reviews.   So far, most of the reviews have been very encouraging for Flock fans.  The only big negative I’ve found was from CyberNet News, where Ryan found some performance problems.   It seems to take Firefox’s resource hogging problems to a whole new level.

This is one of the problems with building your browser on top of another browser.   Flock is basically taking an existing browser along with its memory leak problems and then adding a bunch of social stuff on top of it. These new features look great, but if you aren’t a big user of social services, why would you use Flock?

If you’ve tried out the beta already, I’ve love to hear your thoughts in the comments!