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

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