Flock Beta 1 Released

[LOC Veteran]

I've been using the nightly Flock builds for quite some time now. It is now my default browser (for the past few weeks at least) and I love it. The first beta has now been released, and if you haven't tried Flock yet, or haven't used it for awhile, I think you may be surprised how good the browser is now.

For those of you who don't know what Flock is, it is a Mozilla/Firefox based browser, with intergrated features such as Flickr and Photobucket support, direct Blog support (Blogger, Drupal, LiveJournal, MoveableType, Typepad and WordPress supported) and backup/share etc your favorites with delicious and Shadows. That's everything I can think of off the top of my head. I'm sure there's more :)

They've also as of this new beta release, released a ton of new compatable extensions. I don't want to sound like an ad here, so I'll just leave it at that right now. I highly recommend you try out the new beta, it's very stable, and the intergrated features rock.

Flock Homepage (Redesigned for the beta btw)

Flock Download Page

Extensions

Have fun :)

[Jase]

mmmm looks good :)

[Digitalx]

awsome browser, finally.

[LOC Veteran]

mmmm looks good :)

awsome browser, finally.

(Y)

Glad the first couple of comments are positive :)

[Evilpig]

Nice, I remember trying the first release of Flock. Whats new in this one?

[LOC Veteran]

Nice, I remember trying the first release of Flock. Whats new in this one?

Everything I listed was either changed or completely redone since then. They've added full bookmark support, previously you had to star pages and use that as favorites. Now you can import your IE/Firefox etc favorites and use them normally. Big plus there if you ask me.

I don't know, there's been a ton of changed to Flock since you used it last. It's been quite a few months ago, I'd suggest just downing it and trying it out. It would be hard for me to explain every change as there has been a ton of them under the hood and even more visually.

[+Warwagon MVC]

trying it out

it looks and feels like firefox with a different skin, sure you can do some different things firefox can't do but for the most part its firefox.

[ShaneSparky_YYZ]

cool, ill check it out, thanks for the heads up LOC :)

EDIT// Great browser, install went well too. Looking forward to the next release(s)

Edited June 14, 2006 by thenay

[LOC Veteran]

trying it out

it looks and feels like firefox with a different skin, sure you can do some different things firefox can't do but for the most part its firefox.

They've done some under the hood stuff that makes it different than Firefox. For example, with 3 tabs open, Firefox on my system is using currently almost 90 megs of memory (ouch). Those same 3 tabs in Flock, 41 megs of memory. Not sure what it is they did, but hey, it works :)

But yes, I suppose it is just Firefox. With a million changes :p

cool, ill check it out, thanks for the heads up LOC :)

EDIT// Great browser, install went well too. Looking forward to the next release(s)

Glad you like it, make sure you check out the extensions also. Normal Firefox extensions won't work...usually. So I'd suggest you check the Flock-converted ones.

And just an FYI for everyone, I've found what looks to be a bug. If you install the FasterFox extension they offer, it pretty much nukes the ability to browse the internet with the browser. Heh, going to post it on their bug forums or submit it to them in a bit. I've confirmed it's Fasterfox, it only happens when it's installed and enabled. If I disable it, everything is fine.

[bayrider]

I'll give it a try. It looks promising

[mail]

I tried this browser ages ago and its improved so much in the past year ... oh and it renders neowin lightning quick .. much faster than opera :o i was so taken aback by this i switched :D. All i need is a nice simple adblock list filter g-set doesn't work with flock yet.

[Fotix]

Here's a screenshot of it running on Ubuntu, using its News/RSS feature:

[LOC Veteran]

Here you go, it's a filter I made from the FilterG set. Just import it in :)

flock_adblock.txt

[Quillz]

Hmm... Not bad. I'm typing this message in Flock Beta 1, and I must say I'm impressed. The setup was quick, and now I have one button access to both my Photobucket account and my personal blog. Is this based on the coding of Firefox 1.5? Will most extensions and themes work with Flock?

[LOC Veteran]

Hmm... Not bad. I'm typing this message in Flock Beta 1, and I must say I'm impressed. The setup was quick, and now I have one button access to both my Photobucket account and my personal blog. Is this based on the coding of Firefox 1.5? Will most extensions and themes work with Flock?

I'm not sure what code base it uses, I'm sure it is FF 1.5 or later though. And as I said above, most FF extensions will not work with Flock right now. You can try the Flock'd thingy, but it doesn't always work.

[Bamsebjørn]

Using it right now and I must say I'm impressed!! I might just switch from Firefox to Flock... :)

[martin10018]

Does it coexist with an installed Firefox?

[LOC Veteran]

Does it coexist with an installed Firefox?

Yes it does.

[martin10018]

Yes it does.

Thanks!

[crazzyyfool]

Here you go, it's a filter I made from the FilterG set. Just import it in :)

flock_adblock.txt

How do you import this filter?

[LOC Veteran]

How do you import this filter?

Just save the text file to your desktop or wherever. Then using the Adblock-Flock extension, click on "Adblock Options" and in the drop down menu, choose import. Browse to the text file and blamo, there you go. It'll ask if you want to replace or append. Unless you have adblock stuff in, I suggest you replace. Then you should be good to go.

[SOOPAH256]

just installed Flock.

using it now.

it looks great.

i hope it catches on with everyone else

i'm going to try the blogging features now.

thanks for the news LOC. :)

[LOC Veteran]

just installed Flock.

using it now.

it looks great.

i hope it catches on with everyone else

i'm going to try the blogging features now.

thanks for the news LOC. :)

Enjoy the ride. Flock is really just put together perfectly if you ask me. It just "feels" right.

And about the blogging, can't beat intergrated Wordpress support. And don't forget, Flock has a deal with Wordpress as it is. Originally, you could only get a Wordpress blog (as a test I think) if you used Flock. But when they opened it up to anyone, man having Flock use it was a stroke of genius. Heh.

[Guest]

Hmm, I don't see much difference in page rendering or page rendering speed. Only difference is the font size.

It's very nice looking, but I don't have much use for the bloging stuff etc.

My only problem with this is that I can't get the top toolbar setup exactly how I want it, like I have it in firefox. I expected it to allow me to do it as it's pretty much firefox. I can't move the bookmark toolbar stuff away from that toolbar and but them to the right on the buttons.

edit: also, it failed at importing my bookmarks properly. Any bookmarks that were in a folder vanished.

edit: also, memory usage on this is incredibly high. 70MB just browsing the forum here, while firefox is at 20MB. 6 tabs on firefox brings it to 40MB.

Edited June 14, 2006 by Guest

[ToneKnee]

Another thing on the bookmarks, i couldn't get all my links to be in the main menu! I don't like them in bloody Sub folders! Anyone know how to fix this?