Flock Beta 1 Released

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First I'm no expert, I'm only pointing this out for an answer.

I have ProcessGuard installed on my PC and when I installed this it gave me an alert. I knew it was coming always does when installing software. But because I don't REALLY know the makers I checked it out carefully anyway.

So what was surprising to me is that this software when it installed check my system for all my security software. All my protected software was trying to be read. Why on earth does it need to read my software?? Just so there is no confusion. Firefox does NOT do this. Any Ideas? thoughts? I'm only asking here, not accusing. But I have installed a few other apps and none tried to read my protected software.

I seriously doubt there's anything bad going on here. After all one of the devs of Flock helped develop Mozilla itself. I'd suggest posting on their forums about it, I'm sure a dev will respond, or someone else may have a clue what is going on. It could be a bug, or it could be on purpose for a reason.

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I seriously doubt there's anything bad going on here. After all one of the devs of Flock helped develop Mozilla itself. I'd suggest posting on their forums about it, I'm sure a dev will respond, or someone else may have a clue what is going on. It could be a bug, or it could be on purpose for a reason.

Thanks for the reply LOC, I'm sure your right. I posted on PG's forums, they will know if this is something harmless or needs looked into further. I'm sure it's nothing, I just found it odd and thought I would ask someone that knows more about this stuff. Again thanks.

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Since this post was posted, I downloaded it, and have been using it since.... I've picked up on the odd bug here and there, but dispite that, i'm lovin' it !

I'm not too keen on the name either, but still, it's good !

Glad to hear it dude. Flock is now my main browser. It's the only one that's actually changed me from FF.

0.7.1 is a nice improvement extension wise :).

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