Flock Beta 1 Released

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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.

Sounds like your having a couple of bugs there. I have several folders in my bookmarks, all imported fine.

Memory usage, as I stated above was exceptional, especially compared to Firefox.

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Nice innovative browser. Definitely the most exciting one. I was blogging to my blogsome account today when I wanted to paste a picture from a screen capture. I was surprised when it uploaded the picture to my Flickr account, pasted the picture in the editor, and generated the necessary html code - all without me having to visit the Flickr homepage. The snippets bar at the bottom is another cool feature.

However, I do have a problem when assigning categories to my blog entries. Does anyone have a similar problem?

BTW, right click on the favourites toolbar and select Toggle Collection Selector and easily switch between your favourites.

Another thing on the bookmarks, i couldn't get all my links to be in the main menu!

Couldn't figure how either. Some of my favourities don't even appear in the menu if they don't belong to a collection.

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Tiftof

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I've been using it for a few weeks now. It's great! but I would like to use the google notebook extension. The original one from itself won't install because it says it isn't compatible with flock, but when I download the flock'd one from http://outraged-artists.com/flockd/ it won't install either... Any other method to have that plugin in flock?

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I've been using it for a few weeks now. It's great! but I would like to use the google notebook extension. The original one from itself won't install because it says it isn't compatible with flock, but when I download the flock'd one from http://outraged-artists.com/flockd/ it won't install either... Any other method to have that plugin in flock?

No I'm afraid not. At least not any way I know of. You can post in the Flock forums requesting a compatable version, or maybe request it directly from Google, hey you never know!

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^^ yeah, that pretty much sums it up.

It's nice, but it's not any better than my Firefox. In fact, it starts up a heck of a lot slower than Firefox (and Firefox obviously has way more extensions)...the blogging feature is pretty useless, the picture feature is useless if you don't use Flickr ...it's nice, but hardly earth shaking.

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what the heck is everyone getting all worked up over

its firefox! but with very few available extentions and no themes, and alittle less ram usage

ok so you can blog, and upload pictures.... its still firefox

^^ yeah, that pretty much sums it up.

It's nice, but it's not any better than my Firefox. In fact, it starts up a heck of a lot slower than Firefox (and Firefox obviously has way more extensions)...the blogging feature is pretty useless, the picture feature is useless if you don't use Flickr ...it's nice, but hardly earth shaking.

Well you are of course entitled to your own opinions.

However I can say without a shadow of a doubt the reason why I like Flock more than Firefox - it out Firefox's Firefox. It's an all in one package. Whether or not it has alot of extensions, is a moot point to me. The blogging and picture integration are top notch, and they are certainly not worthless features to many people.

Of course, if you are worried Flock will cut into Firefox's market share....:p

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Well you are of course entitled to your own opinions.

However I can say without a shadow of a doubt the reason why I like Flock more than Firefox - it out Firefox's Firefox. It's an all in one package. Whether or not it has alot of extensions, is a moot point to me. The blogging and picture integration are top notch, and they are certainly not worthless features to many people.

Of course, if you are worried Flock will cut into Firefox's market share....:p

you work for flock, I know you do

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Eh, I'm using it right now. From what I can tell the UI looks better than the Firefox one (because of the theme I guess) but that's the only thing I can say I actually like about this ... I mean, don't get me wrong I'm super glad there are more alternatives to IE now, but it's too much like Firefox for me. And since most of the extensions I use don't work I can't see myself using it except for the UI looks. :p

By the way I noticed Flock does render pages faster but starts up slower.

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I think Flock adds a lot of useful things, but personally, I dont upload photos, have a blog, or anything like that. The only thing I would use is the news section which is fairly nice.

Personally though, the theme is a bit too glossy for me, and I much prefer the "plainer" default firefox UI. Especially for the news section, it's a little hard for me to read the text.

I'm not fussed about extensions, as no doubt a lot will be ported over, automatically once it's done.

I cant see myself using beta 1, but if they tweak the UI a little or at least add a darker default colour option then it'd be a bit more preferable for me. :)

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i like the idea of it. But it simply dont work well on my computer. It takes 10 sec for it to load up as well as CPU resources shoot up to 100% during the first 20 sec. UI is not very reponsive.

But i love the idea and if they could iron out the bugs i would like to use it. It just feel that is the way it should be :D

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Okay after using this for a day I love it. Haha. I like how you can just copy + paste stuff into the bottom bar and save it for later. I also find it neat you can upload photos directly into Flikr and Photobucket. Pretty cool stuff if you ask me.

PS: I did a bit of searching on their extension site and found the extensions I use. Wewt. :)

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I used it as my default browser for a few days, it was good and had some nice features like the News/RSS which is the best implementation I've ever seen (And I wish it was just an extension so I could use it with regular firefox). There were some quirks like having to have all the 'Favourites' in subfolders (I prefer the term Bookmarks as a minor thing). The main showstopper was the lack of Quicksearch shortcuts, I couldn't live without all of my custom Quick Searches so I went back to Firefox.

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