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
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
