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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How can I post without an input box?

Image via WikipediaGood question; never thought I'd have to ask.

All of a sudden today, my input box has disappeared. First it shows when I select to make a new post, then it disappears.

I am posting to my preview window now. Yes, as the forum says, I have cleared my cache and cookies, but to no avail. By the way, I am using FF 3.

Does anyone have any other suggestions or are you experiencing
the same?

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?

Firefox 3 and extension(s) problems

Well, we all were waiting for it...Firefox 3 to come out of beta.
And so it did. Yes, it loads faster and doesn't use quite as much RAM.
Those aspects are of importance to me.

But, and you knew, that it was coming, what is up with the extensions?
I used to have 40 + in my FF 2 installation. Now I can't get more than
15 extensions to load and function. I even have an RSS feed with the
latest extensions info and they don't load either; they are either rejected or installation fails.

I must admit that I run FF 3 in a sandboxed browser (sandboxie.com).
But, that has never made a difference before.

I read some of the daily FF oriented blogs and can't find anything
written about extensions and related problems. Also, I receive a daily google alert
related to extensions and associated problems - nothing there either.

What's been your experience?

Your bankteller: friendly, but uninformed......

A funny thing happened to me today while doing some in-person banking.
Had made a couple of debit transactions over the weekend and wanted
to know how much cash was available in my account.

There was a gas pump purchase and a visit to a local
retail store. One would think that the teller could look
at my account and see the exact amount of cash I had used.
Not true.

She hadn't checked all of the available screens and the fuel
company had only withdrawn $1.00 to test my account.
That actual amount might be available in several days.
The teller actually incorrectly mixed two purchases together
and did not inform me of this.

I left the bank and returned to explain my displeasure
with the customer service manager. She had printed
my account info and was going to go over it with all of the
tellers.

One would think that this is common enough to
have as part of standard training.

It's important to ask if there are any other screens to check
or are there any that haven't been checked yet. Also,
are you looking at a total as opposed to individual entries?

Of course, as the customer service manager suggested,
I could have kept a register with me at the pump.