Flock, the browser based on Mozilla Firefox and optimized for social networking addicts, is switching to Chromium. The Flock has released a new beta version today developed on the Chromium platform. Chromium is the open source browser project behind Google Chrome.
Flock, popular among social networking addicts, is using Mozilla Firefox’s technology since its beginning but now Flock developers have opted the Chromium platform. Clayton Stark writes on the official blog:
We had already pushed the technologies we were using about as far as we could, and we needed to make things much faster. Enter chromium.org, the next step in the evolution of the Web browser. The technologies that make up Chromium let us push much farther than before, and package our vision into rocketship-fast software. There isn’t a limit to what we can do on this platform (which is fantastic, as we have a lot of things we still want to do!)
I also want to take this opportunity to mention Mozilla, and basically take my hat off while I’m at it. Most of the Flock team started building browsers on Mozilla in late 2004, before Firefox 1.0 was released (we built Netscape 8.x together, which was Firefox-based, before working on Flock 1.x). As we start this new chapter with Chromium, it seems important to mention that I believe chromium.org would not even exist had mozilla.org not come before it. We didn’t choose Chromium over Mozilla as much as we chose Chromium after Mozilla. It was a natural evolution. I see Mozilla as a venerable deity in the space, and I feel thankful for everything its enabled. [ … ]
The new Chromium based beta version of Flock can be downloaded from here.
Flock is not the only project who ditched Mozilla. Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Jolicloud have also announced to switch to Chromium platform. The biggest problem with Firefox is its slow performance, specially on netbooks and similar devices.
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