Sorry to hear that this has come up. Its not typical, but it has been seen on a couple of occasions by other users too. It may be corruption of an area of your profile.

If you are willing, consider sending us your profile for forensic analysis. We are looking for more evidence so that we can get our fix in with confidence. If you are willing, please contact me by email and I will arrange this with you - I am at clayton at flock dot com.

In the meantime, consider blowing your profile away to regain the performance you should be seeing. If you use online favorites (so your bookmarks aren't lost), and you don't mind losing other settings held by your profile, removing the profile and starting fresh has a very high likelihood of removing this problem -- the bet is that you have profile corruption, for which I apologize (FWIW).

If you are starting over again by removing your profile, consider starting again with Flock 1.0 -- we have the BETA release candidate available here: www.flock.com./rc3

Please contact me if you are willing to help with profile forensics, or if there is any further help I can provide.

Clayton

Hi Clayton, thanks for the reply.

I'll try clearing the profile and install the RC3 version. Will see how that goes.

Glenn

I have the same problem with CPU usage. I love the flock browser, but couldn't understand why I was running at 100% cpu after installing Norton. I blamed it on Norton until I ran process manager and saw flock was using 48%. I'm not sure what to do. I hate not being able to use it, but it's making my computer run so slow.
Susan

I really like the 1.0 version of Flock for Mac. As others have stated, serious CPU usage (over 80%) and it's a memory hog (something over <350MB actual and <1GB virtual).

I can't live with that, it slows the whole system down. So, for now and once again, I'll wait until Flock plays better with my system. Please fix these things!

I was finding that Flock was using high CPU, and freezing, with the Vista blue circle of death, followed by the white screen, and the "application needs to close".

What i found, by accident, was causing the high CPU and the crashing, was the "home page", if i was browsing with MY WORLD tab still on the tab bar, the browser was very sluggish, and impossible to use, however as soon as i had shut down the home page tab, Flock started flying.

Needless to say, that as the My World Tab never gets taken over when you open a new link/bookmark, unless you shut the tab yourself, this might be the problem for others as well.

As much as i thought the idea of the Flock home page was great, i'm afraid for now it has been given the push.

Any idea when 1.0.2 will be released? The download page still loads 1.0.1.

I'm having similar problems with Flock consuming large amounts of mem usage. I don't use the My World page at all, so I'm not sure why this is happening for me. Check out the top row:
http://www.transfusionmedia.com/flockMemLeak.gif

That's with 5 tabs open. I closed and restarted with the same 5 tabs, and now it is at 109k.

I just did a search to see if others were having the same problems as myself, and came across this. I have just closed down "My World" and my browser is now flying again. I'm using Windows XP, and my memory usage was never that great, I just checked before and it was only on 4%.....however, that didn't stop my browser from being almost at a standstill. I'll stop using "My World" for now, and revert to my previous homepage. Hopefully it gets fixed in the latest release :)

Hate to say this, but I'm having the same problem with the "My World" tab opened on version 1.0.3. When I close that tab, no issues.

I'd like to submit my profile - this link is no longer valid:

http://dropbox.yousendit.com/flockprofiles

lately I've been getting the spinning beach ball more frequently - it is getting to the point where I don't think I can keep the current version of Flock (1.1) up and running full time and rather not have to resort to falling back to Safari as I find Flock to be a really great experience.

Same thing here!
Same problem on a Macbook...
Seems like the problem is still there after all...

I have the same problem, my cpu is on max the whole time when flock is running

I really like Flock, but the last couple of weeks it's using a great amount of CPU om my MacBook Pro running Leopard. I'm running version 1.1.2. Is there any way I can help you with data to sort it out?

Ditto here, I just found out about flock and having tried it for over an hour or so, I'm seriously considering switching over my browsing to this. However, having Flock open means my CPU is constantly running at 95-100% and same for my memory usage.

This is on a Dell Laptop running Windows XP Pro. Even with one tab open and the side bar closed it makes no difference.

I'm running Flock 1.1.4 if that helps.

Cheers

I've also got a Dell Laptop and run 1.1.4--right now, with sidebar AND media bar closed--as well as MyWorld--and 2 tabs open--I'm showing 410,844k!!! Even with 2G RAM, I can STILL feel quite a drain on the system with obvious slowing. Any suggestions? Despite the drain, however--I, and now my kids, are all "Flock Addicts" and not about to give the browser up!! Thanks for the incredible Browsing experience!!!
NOW--If I could just convince my 82yo Dad to use it...BUT, it took me a year to convince him to move to Firefox, so.... ;) elaine

I have Flock 1.1.4.
Windows Vista Business.
Dual Core
2Gb Ram

Flock with two pages open (not My World). Uses 600,000K+ of memory and CPU resources fluctuate from 30% to 60% use.

I have IE, FFox and Safari open with more pages loaded, and they take up 100,00K and very little CPU resources.

Al pages are idle. Help?

Oh! all we have to do is rename a profile. Do you know where I can get info on how to do that?!!! Do you really need to be hinted that some don't even know that they have a profile and where it would be located?
I don't think that it's going to help anyway. It'll be something to do with memory management. I can't believe that you can't reproduce this as every time that I've made a new user in Windows XP this rears it's ugly head pretty quickly.

HI
experiencing the same thing
I just installed flock on my vista notebook, dualcore 2 ghz, 2g ram
the ram isn't a problem, it's at 150k kb, it's the cpu, it uses constantly 30-60 % of my cpu... no extensions or whatever as I just installed it (the 1.2.1 version)
flock looks nice, but I better hope the cpu usage problem gets solved...
greetings
keep up the good work :)

@Joehakjasfdfhajfj: You can find your profile by following the Flock FAQ "Where does Flock store my files?"

It's been my experience that Flock will use a lot of CPU when it first starts up as it will check your RSS feeds and other accounts that Flock has integrated with (Digg, Flickr, etc).

The new version of Flock being previewed, Flock 2.0, is based on Firefox 3 and should use less system resources. If you're feeling adventurous (it's stable for me), you can find it: http://www.flock.com/beta/download/

I'm using 2.01b, and to be honest - I am this close to giving up again, and reverting back to Firefox. The memory usage on Flock is dreadful, to put it politely. I just ran it without anything else, the HDD was constantly ticking over, and the system was at a standstill - when I ran the Task Manager it informed me that Flock was using 224,448K - even now, whilst behaving itself, the HDD isn't whirring away, and my PC seems to be running fine - it is still using 136,100K..... compare this to Firefox 3, which when using regularly is about 18,000K. That is a considerable difference.

With regards to addons, I use:
Greasemonkey 0.8.20080609.0
Nightly tester tools 2.0.2
Stumbleupon 3.23
Adblock Plus 0.7.5.5

That is all. It's a true shame that the speed of Flock is making it nigh on unusable. I reverted back to Firefox a while ago, after it started to take an eternity on Flock to actually do anything, and have only recently moved back because of the 2.0 release. However, now I'm running into the exact same problems which made me uninstall in the first place.

Evan,

Is Flock 2 having the same problems when installed over an existing profile that Firefox 3 is when installed on a Firefox 2 profile? (It also changes enough that you can not reliably use the profile for Firefox 2 again.)

In my experience with Firefox 3 so far, it is rather more CPU intensive than Firefox 2. Have you experienced that with Flock 2?

Thanks!

Thanks, Evan,

I am using the Flock 2 beta at the moment, installed on a clean profile, just to be cautious. It seems to be doing very nicely!

Thanks for the link.

One of the continuing problems with Firefox 2 was the issue of "memory leaks" that aggravated just about everything. I was motivated to move away from Firefox 2 sooner than I probably otherwise would have because it began choking on my bookmarks and Firefox 3 handled them without difficulty. I have had to make do without some of my addons in the meantime though.

One addon that causes CPU utilization problems in Firefox 3 is Forecastfox. Several other users confirmed this in a thread on the Mozillazine forums. I am presently using the Weatherbug extension with Firefox 3 for this reason.

I am going to wait a few days before installing addons on Flock 2 just to have a feel for how it is doing so that I can better tell if a particular addon changes things for the worse.

"One more thing." Is there any chance of getting a portable version of Flock 2? It is pretty neat carrying apps around on a flash drive. I now have one for Windows and one for Macs so that I can get to "my stuff" on most any computer.

Cheers!

Yoiu think that's high CPU %? Then get ready for Flock 2 beta, cuz it's at 91% and won't start the first time - you have to close its process and then start it again, this time only at around 30% fairly constantly - spiking to 70% when open a page. This is all probably due to FireFox 3's own CPU spiking issues, however.