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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
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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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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