Flock : pre-alpha

Áine on October 30th, 2005 filed in Geekware

Currently testing Flock. It’s based on Firefox and is in pre-alpha, developer’s preview v.0.5. Bookmark management is integrated with del.icio.us and that’s a little bit buggy, especially if you rearrange your bookmarks. Turns out that if you move a bookmark in Flock, you lose whatever tags you had attached to it (they just seemingly vanish, and no, I don’t know where they go). You can check that for yourself by cross-checking your account at the del.icio.us site after you rearrange a list of bookmarks in one of your Flock “collections”. Interesting that some of the Firefox extensions do work, while I’m a bit leery about installing extensions on this early version, not knowing if they will destroy my profile or the Flock installation, etc., so I’m not going extension-crazy yet.

If you’re not really geeky, I don’t recommend you install Flock yet. Wait for a more developed release when things get a little more stable.

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6 Responses to “Flock : pre-alpha”

StealthBadger Says:
November 4th, 2005 at 12:10 am
How does it compare for speed and such to Deer Park? For an alpha release, it’s nice…. o.o

(http://www.mozilla.org/projects/deerpark/)
StealthBadger Says:
November 4th, 2005 at 12:12 am
OH, IMPORTANT!

Firefox and Deer Park *might* not play nicely with each other depending on what extensions you install - they use the same preferences directory at thsi point, IIRC.

Just a heads up. ^.^
Aine Says:
November 4th, 2005 at 12:14 am
Don’t know. I’m not using the beta of FF. I have to have at least one stable browser for my everyday web work, so I’m just using 1.0.7 until the next official release comes out.
Aine Says:
November 4th, 2005 at 12:19 am
0.4.10 update for Flock came through my notifier tonight. Basically, it sends you to the Flock site and you have to download the entire package, rather than just a few updated files. Did that. When I did, I lost all the stuff that made Flock really cool to use:

- all the blogs I had added to the Blog Editor and their settings vanished.
- my del.icio.us acct settings from Web Services seem to have also vanished, and there is no way to re-add my account or check settings… all the options are greyed out.
- same thing happened to Flickr.

Doncha just love beta? heh.
StealthBadger Says:
November 13th, 2005 at 6:23 am
I’m building a moderately decent system piece by piece. When it’s done, gonna take the system I have now and make it my dedicated Windoze box and put Debian on the new one. I’m thinkin’ it’s about that time, that way I can beta the old box to death without having to worry about it.
Aine Says:
November 13th, 2005 at 6:40 am
I’d like to do that… someday. No money for the new box, but I did buy a couple of pieces (case, power supply, cd drive). I’ll get there eventually.