Filed under: Internet, Social Software, Beta
Flock 2.0 beta is out: Social browser built on Firefox 3
But there's one problem. Up until now Flock was based on Firefox 2 and couldn't take advantage of the speed improvements featured in Firefox 3. With Firefox 3 set to launch out of beta/release candidate limbo tomorrow, the Flock team has released the first beta version of Flock 2.0 which uses Firefox 3 as it's base.
What does that mean for users?
- Uses the Gecko 1.9 rendering engine for faster page rendering
- Improved support for web applications like Gmail and Zoho Office
- Reduced memory footprint
- Security enhancements
- Improved password manager that takes up less memory
- Uses the Firefox 3 "awesome bar" which auto-completes URLs based on your history and favories
- New favorites manager
- New download manager




Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
WolvenSpectre said 9:47PM on 6-16-2008
I started using Flock recently after trying it a long time ago. I had to stop because the RSS wouldn't work right, the browser slowed down to slower than IE, some of the social network integration is falling a little short, and finally I was running into login probems with gmail that I had to correct with a firefox plugin. I understand that it is a work in progress so I don't holdit against them.
Now its going even MORE beta as they include the Fx 3 code... no thank-you.
Thats why I am glad that I am an Opera 9.5 user.
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