Have you heard of Flock?

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Thanks…I just got it!!

I will flock every day!!

Be well…

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Hi mikedallos,

Hope you like this user friendly browser.
It did not fail me once since I installed the preview 0.5, and now I am running the 11th build. I test it thoroughly.

The forum for developers and team members resides here: http://www.flockbrowser.com/Forums

For those that join their mailing list there is a private beta version.
So I think the first beta will come out soon for ye all.
Wait what is coming out of that garage room in California.

greets,

polonus

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For some oddballs like myself who are curious of Flock but don’t like Mozilla products to mess with registry, and of course, people like Flock enough to go out with it, Pocket Flock, which is similar to Portable Firefox 1.5. The site Portable Apps.com, where you can even spot portable OS, itself may interest portable device users.

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I’m sick of that slow ass Firefox it sometimes feels like Photoshop opens up faster(and you know that one needs a little more time to open up)… >:(

Damian does Flock open up any faster than Firefox?And do you happen to know if FoxyTunes(my favorite fox extension) can be used or ported in Flock?

thanks in advance my friend

Miha

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I’m not sure that I follow if you don’t like the messing with registry, isn’t flock based on the Mozilla Firefox code?
So Pocket Flock and Portable Firefox are probably similarly linked.

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Hi ReVaN,

Yes Flock is considerably faster than FF. Allthough built after FF 1.5 x it is completely different. Good news is that Eugin Kuzin of Dr. Web made the Dr. Web plug-in suitable for Flock now as well.
I like Flock as a browser better as any FF build. Also Neal63 always been on Flock from the mo it was out on the Net, and I have not heard a bad word about this browser from him in all my contactsl. And for cache items, you can be rigorous with it, go to history.dat or cookie dat. If you clean your cookie dat out with Notepad, just put it back nearly empty, and the next go it automattically starts anew loading the cookie. You can go to options and clean out the cache with one push of a button. Nightly built installs over previous ones seamlessly, no sweat at all. Has not let me down so far, this browser, honest,

greets,

polonus

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OK i’m gonna give it a go but my question about FoxyTunes extension still remains(i cannot live without that…) BTW the GUI looks very nice :wink:

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Check it here. Still not official but there is. Also, you will find some useful links in this thread.

Yes, Pocket Flock still relies on Portable Firefox, which tries not to make traces including registry on the host machines as little as possible.

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Thanks Umath this is just what i needed, i’ll report back here to give my opinion on Flock once i got it installed and play with it a little…

thanks again

Revan

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Well to add info on the mac side of flock:

It runs, about the same as IE for Mac. It is Obviously not Optimized for Altivec (aka velocity engine) and I see no universal binary to work on botth PPC and intel macs

I have sent them some links to apple’s Altivec developers page and hopefuly they will improve on that

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Hello .:Mac:.,

If you use Flock, you can easily port extensions from FF to Flock, with this tool:
http://frobba.com/main.asp?article=230, also for you a Mac version there available. Use the Flocker.

greets,

polonus

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The Flock use less resources than Firefox?

Firefox have some bugs that aren’t fixed to avoid these issues, and since Flock also use Gecko engine, I would like to know that…

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I strongly believe (and somehow feel inside, taking the fact that someone gave them a million bucks, into consideration) that this Flock browser will be one of the greatest browsers out there. Biggest competition to IE7 in my humble opinion (even IE7 is still under heavy development, but so far it looks really promising). Firefox will have to step back (well not that simply, because we all can witness how many those “Firefox yellers” are out there… nothing that comes out is better than Firefox in their opinion, but they never mention it’s their humble opinion :wink: ). Of course, we all remember Netscape and its everlasting fight with IE and Microsoft…

With that said, I really think Flock will become a wonderful browser. Wonderful bunch of young developers, fresh minds, ready to do something good, and maybe most important, with unbelievable deep pockets (now when they got all that money). This will be a simple BOOM.

The fact is, use what makes you happy and do not force anyone to think like you think… there is nothing like ultimate browser, nor ultimate knowledge. People are individuals and they need to act and feel like that, otherwise we all will became insensitive robots… oh well, maybe sometimes we would feel a need to change our oil from time to time ;D

Cheers !

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My current main Mozilla alternaitve browser is as quick as notepad and doesn’t affect on my system but its language is terribly minor. :frowning:

How about trying Pocket Flock or Portable Fifefox, instead?

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I’m waiting for the next version of Maxthon and IE, but until that I’m trying other browsers…

Thanks

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But Flock really is on the right way i have to say i am impressed with it :slight_smile: I am on Maxthon currently as it fits my needs perfectly but Flock is staying on my system defintely and i’ll be watching it’s development closely :slight_smile: Go Flock!

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Hi ReVaN,

But you will be a portable apps man too in the foreseeable future. I see it here before me, Miha with a portable Flock browser on his Flash Disk, together with his portable Avast AV product and special Gamer’s portable Firewall. Press: enter my friend,

polonus

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v190/bob3160/Avast%20Forum/PocketFlock02.jpg

As you can see it works like a charm and I’ve added it to the rest of the things I’ve set up
on my keychain drive:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v190/bob3160/Avast%20Forum/PocketFlock.jpg

By the way, this was posted using PocketFlock… ;D

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In case you’re interested in the other 17 apps, I have them available at MySharedFiles
Direct download link:http://bob3160.no-ip.org:4445/AIO_17USB%20Appz.exe

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Just a little update about “flock” that I am using. Started using it on Oct 23, 2005. Using it as my MAIN browser. Un-installed firefox version 1.5 as it was slower than their version 1.07 which I now have gone back to. Flock has never crashed or let me down yet. I use it first, then Firefox version 1.07 and then if I have to one of the I.E. engine clones. Thanks again Polonus for letting me know of this browser when you did. :slight_smile: