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Firefox 2 has lot of memory (leak) issues, so also Flock since its based on Firefox 2.
Firefox 3 has tremendously improved over Firefox 2 including lots of fixes for avoiding memory leaks. Is it possible to build Flock against Firefox 3?
PS. I definitely know that the patches cannot be generally applied, but I'm interested to give it a go since I use Flock as my primary web browser.
Chris Campbell
We'll definitely be moving to Firefox 3 once it becomes stable. It's all part of keeping up with the times. :)
Jon K
I'm hoping there are still plans afoot here? Firefox 3 is marvellous.
Evan Hamilton
Hey Jon,
Definitely still planning on this. Work has begun, and once FF3 is officially released we'll be able to lock down our code and launch a FF3-powered Flock.
Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
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theZoid
That will be awesome. Especially since Flock is a better FF imo :)
Nicolas
Great news.. I wanna see Firefox 3 based Flock :D
Aiden
Since I installed Firefox 3 Beta 4, it seems like FF and Flock are crashing each other (if one is open and I open the other, whichever I opened first crashes).
Any way to avoid this?
Evan Hamilton
Hey Aiden,
This seems very unlikely...Flock and Firefox should not conflict, and I have not seen these problems. That said, it's a beta and there's not much we can do about their beta.
Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
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Your Name
I'm having the same problem, with firefox 1.5 (the ebay version.) Firefox works beautifully, but when I downloaded flock today, it couldn't go online. I love flock for the photobucket capabilities, but I finally uninstalled flock because it just wouldn't go online. I don;t even have a firewall turned on, so that can't be the problem/ I'd love to use flock photobucket, if you have a solution to this problem
Evan Hamilton
Hey Your Name,
This thread is about Flock and Firefox3. Shoot me a line about your specific bug and I'll try to clear it up. My email is: evan at flock dot com
Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
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blog.evanhamilton.com
Brian Mingus
You should release a beta. Flock is so slow, and Firefox is drastically faster than Firefox 2. Ubuntu 8 was released with Firefox 3 Beta 4 indicating that, at the least, Canonical considered it ready for prime time.
ChrisVance
FF3 RC1 is out now, so I suspect unless a show-stopper/data-loss bug appears, we should see an official release Real Soon Now. My understanding from Evan's previous posts on this topic is that the Flock trunk code is already FF3-based, and Flock will see a FF3-based release shortly thereafter.
swarfega
Since that last post, FF3 has now reached RTM!
Evan Hamilton
Hey folks,
Flock 2, based on Firefox 3, hit beta last week. You can get it at www.flock.com/beta/download.
Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
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