Have you been flocked yet ?

Image via WikipediaThat's Flock 1.2, the new web browser based upon
Firefox 2. It's called a social browser; designed
for people who like to be linked - or linkable - to
their friends and blogs. There are many interesting
and other useful features including the safety aspects of
Firefox.

It's use of RAM is moderate - perhaps, after
an hour a little more than Firefox.

One of the features I really like is that if there
is a searchable field on a webpage, Flock will
offer to load it into your search bar for later use.
This way you can search a page without actually
having to go to it.

Many, but not all, of the updated extensions
can be downloaded from the Flock site and lots
of Firefox extensions will work too.

I'm using it more than Firefox 3 these days.

There is a beta to Flock 2.0 available, but
I'm going to wait.

Let me know what you think.

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July 4th.....Freedom and Firefox

What's a poor boy to do, but join with the other 30 million
or so other users and muddle through the addons, extensions
and themes wars. Many of us have been using the previous
incarnations of FF... and for good reasons: extensions, or as
Mozilla calls them, addons.

But many of my previous favorites just won't install,
even if updated by their designers, after June 17th.

Here's the mozilla link for help:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_install_themes_or_extensions_-_Firefox.

It's a comprehensive page listing the various messages I, and
presumably you, have received accompanying failed addons
installation attempts. Frankly, some of their suggestions are
understandable (to me), some aren't and some might
have some consequences to our overall systems.

What do you think?