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Under the hood, Flock is essentially Firefox, which is one of the most dependable browsers available for Windows. However, rather than being yet another one-size-fits-all browser, Flock calls itself 'the social web browser', and provides highly useful, time-saving features for browsing, sharing photos,

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blogging and finding information.

Perhaps Flock's best feature is its excellent integration with the popular online photo services Flickr and Photobucket. By dragging and dropping files and completing small forms, you can add photos to your account in seconds, and you can subscribe to friends' accounts so that you find out the moment they upload new images.

Most of Flock's information-oriented features are similarly impressive: the integration with blogging services is usable and hassle-free; the RSS reader is one of the best we've seen; and the Web Search field searches as you type, often enabling you to skip results pages.

Despite still being in development, Flock feels remarkably mature, with a good-looking, clean, usable interface, and in many ways it already feels the equal of Firefox. Give it another year and Flock could even be the Windows browser to beat.