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Mozilla powered social web browser, Flock has released a new beta version of Flock 2.0 for early adopters and bug hunters. So far, Flock was using Firefox 2’s code under the hood, so it didn’t include all the performance and security improvements featured in Firefox 3, which is due for release tomorrow.

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Flock 2.0 uses Firefox 3’s latest Gecko 1.9 rendering engine, which promises better performance and smaller memory footprint. It also incorporates Firefox 3’s favorite manager and the nifty "awesome bar", which auto-completes based on your browsing history. The new download manager can resume downloads after restart.

For the most part, Flock 2.0 retains the same look and feel of Flock 1.2, except for the Media Bar and People Sidebar, which have been slightly polished to make things go more intuitive. If you seriously crave for performance improvements, they you should certainly download a copy of Flock 2.0 and give it a try.



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  1. Unfortunately the beta link is nonfunctional for the Linux version. It only works for Windows and Mac.

    Also, your comment field is messed up on this trunk build of Seamonkey 2.0.

  2. From your link it would appear that they are still in Beta version and are asking people to test it.

  3. Hmm, I will try it out. Lets see how it is!

  4. We’ll wait for the beta testing to be over before tring it out.

  5. I’m hear about Flock from this blog today. I’m wait new version based on FF3 and try it.

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