{"id":16486,"date":"2011-04-15T14:29:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T12:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=16486"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:01:51","slug":"support-for-flock-browser-to-be-discontinued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/support-for-flock-browser-to-be-discontinued\/","title":{"rendered":"Support for Flock browser to be discontinued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of <strong>April 26<\/strong>, social browser <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/flock.com\">Flock<\/a>&#8216;s developers will no longer be offering support to users<\/strong>. Based on <strong>Chrome<\/strong>, Flock&#8217;s browser interface integrated several different social networks including <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.en.softonic.com\/web-apps\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.en.softonic.com\/web-apps\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a> to give its users the ultimate social browsing experience.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16487\" title=\"Flock\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/04\/flock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/04\/flock.jpg 550w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/04\/flock-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Flock&#8217;s creators advise current users to switch to other browsers and specifically recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/firefox.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>Mozilla Firefox<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/google-chrome.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>Google Chrome<\/strong><\/a>. Without regular security patch updates, a browser may be susceptible to newer viruses, malware and other internet threats that could potentially do harm to your PC.<\/p>\n<p>For those seeking a similarly social browsing experience to Flock, <a href=\"http:\/\/rockmelt.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>RockMelt<\/strong><\/a> is another fantastic option that integrates Facebook, Twitter and your favorite blog feeds quite seamlessly. In fact, we&#8217;ve even pitted <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/social-browsers-flock-vs-rockmelt\">Flock and RockMelt head-to-head here at OnSoftware<\/a> before, with RockMelt coming out on top in its current development stage. There&#8217;s no shortage of good browser alternatives!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you use Flock?<\/strong> If so, what browser are you planning on switching to and why? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of April 26, social browser Flock&#8216;s developers will no longer be offering support to users. Based on Chrome, Flock&#8217;s browser interface integrated several different social networks including Facebook and Twitter to give its users the ultimate social browsing experience. Flock&#8217;s creators advise current users to switch to other browsers and specifically recommend Mozilla Firefox &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/support-for-flock-browser-to-be-discontinued\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Support for Flock browser to be discontinued&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2972],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-16486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionflock"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334316,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16486\/revisions\/334316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16486"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=16486"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=16486"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=16486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}