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(running on Ubuntu 8.04, using previous 1.2 profile)
1. The "go" button says "Go to the address in the Location Bar" next to it, even though I am in icon only mode.
2. When customizing menus, can move icons from the customize box, and then drag them back to the box. However, cannot rearrange or delete icons already on the toolbar - they continue to do their functions when clicked rather than being dragged.
3. After exiting customize menu, the "file", "edit", etc buttons are greyed out and do not work until Flock is restarted.
4. Pressing Ctrl-Shift-P brings up the Photo Uploader rather than the People Sidebar as it should.
5. When a sidebar is open, then hovering over the button for it in the Flock toolbar makes a white gap extend over the border of the toolbar, like the icon is slightly too big.
6. Restarting flock removes all the "most visited favourite sites" from My World. I assume this is probably because I have it set to clear my history when I restart, but the recently visited favourites used to persist between sessions on 1.2 and I'd got used to it. Maybe a new option could be added to the "Clear Private Data" box for recently visited favourites.
7. I'm not sure that I like how tab titles are now centred in the tabs rather than left-justified. I suppose I'll get used to it.
8. The black drop-down arrow next to "widgets" in My World has a larger, semi-transparent arrow overlayed on top of it.
These are the only things I've noticed so far. Otherwise I'm very impressed, especially with the new favourites system. And of course it's lovely to have all my plugins working again! :)
Thanks!
chezzo
It seems that bugs 2 and 3 are to do with having Google Toolbar installed - disabling it removes these issues.
However, as this is a popular extension which is likely used by many Flock users, an effort should be made to make it compatible.
Evan Hamilton
Hey chezzo,
Thanks for spending the time testing Flock 2 and providing this information. Responses:
1. Can you provide a screenshot of this?
2 & 3) Not our job to make Google Toolbar compatible, it's their job. Please reach out to them if you care about this toolbar. We're happy to work with them.
4. Good catch. This'll be verified by QA and filed as a bug.
5. Can you provide a screenshot? I can't reproduce this.
6. I suspect this is because we've changed how this feature works (it's now tied to the "awesomebar"). Let me know if this persists across other restarts.
7. Good feedback to hear, I'll note it. Tabs are important, and we don't have to stick with the new design if everyone hates it.
8. Not seeing this either. Screenshot? :)
Thanks again chezzo!
Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
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chezzo
Thanks for the comments, screenshot here
and yep, recently visited favourites are cleared every time i restart
I see your point about the firefox toolbar - it's irritating though as it used to work in flock 1.2, and works fine in ff3 rc2... I will attempt to get in contact with Google, although I don't know how keen they'll be on investing time on a specifically Flock toolbar, since Flock is still quite a margin product.
Mark B.
for 1 mine does the same thing on Vista HP sp1 and i lost all my favorites and bookmarks but all feeds are there. also the both the "preview comment" and "post comment" buttons for this have a "P" in the center of them
Mark B.
just found another bug.
in my world i have the feeds, friends, and the fav. sites widgets(i have them in that order) open and i add the media widget the sites will not show the arrow to move it to the right. if i close the media widget and reopen it then the arrow will be on the sites widget to move it to the right and it will keep following that pattern.
sc
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h9/crazzyman828/widgets.jpg
chezzo
hmm just found something else, which i don't think was happening yesterday - even when i'm logged into facebook the people sidebar says i'm logged out. if i click on the button to log in, i enter my password and my friends start appearing for a few seconds, then it says i'm logged out again.
maybe it's something to do with facebook rather than flock though, as i think it was fine yesterday.
chezzo
seems to be fixed again now - no idea what was causing it
mbort
I'm having chezzo's facebook problem as well...
also, twitter is not updating in the sidebar eithier...just keeps the spinning dots next to Twitter
chezzo
yeah, i'm still periodically having problems with facebook
also, i've realised that on the old versions of flock opening a link in a new tab would open it next to the original tab, but in the new version the new tab opens on the right-hand end of all the tabs. was this change intentional? maybe an option could be added to choose which behaviour is preferred.
Tym
I have the facebook problem and also the same login issue happens with flickr. In the console it says:
2008-06-17 10:50:55 AM [0x0-0x107107].com.flock.Flock [10:50:55.385 flock:poller:error] The service @flock.com/people/facebook;1 returned the following error while refreshing urn:flock:facebook:account:#########: There was an error logging into the service.
2008-06-17 11:16:38 AM [0x0-0x107107].com.flock.Flock [11:16:38.188 flock:poller:error] The service @flock.com/?photo-api-flickr;1 returned the following error while refreshing urn:flock:flickr:account:########: You must be logged in to perform this action.
Another bug i found is that you can't drag custom toolbar items to the toolbar. If you start the drag, the cursor will change to the item but it won't let you drop it anywhere. You have to wait for it to be dropped back after waiting for a few seconds.
Tym
Another bug seems to be that even though Download Status Bar addon is supported, it doesn't actually appear to work. I.e. downloads do not show up in the status bar at the bottom of the window.
Mark B.
another new one. when trying to drag a image from FF3 final to Flock 2b1's uploader it wont add it to the uploader but if i drag the same image in from IE8(beta emulating IE7) it will add it just fine
just got another one. when opening the digg flyout there is a line about a quarter inch from the left side of the flyout
sc:
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h9/crazzyman828/digg.jpg
John R.
The flock-browser script for launching Flock 2.0b1 Linux version only works if you directly execute this script. IE: You cannot make a symlink that will execute properly. Reproducible with following:
tar -xjvf flock-2.0b1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2ln -s flock/flock-browser flock-browser
./flock-browser
Output:
Cannot find mozilla runtime directory. Exiting.
If the name of the symbolic link is changed to anything besides "flock-browser", you will get an error from run-mozilla.sh because the flock-browser script will pass an improper binary name, specifically LINK_NAME-bin.
There are three changes necessary to fix both symptoms:
# flock-browser script
# Line 60
progname="$0"
# Line 62
progbase=`basename "$progname" | sed -e 's/-browser$//'`
# Line 73
progbase=`basename "$progname" | sed -e 's/-browser$//'`
$progname is never used to construct the binary name, but it is used when searching for symbolic links, so it must be set to the name actually passed into the script. However, $progbase is directly used to create the binary name, so it should have the additional sed commands to ensure we strip "-browser" and eventually get "flock-bin" and not something else.
In case someone reading the email feedback sees this, I have updated my remedy since I sent the email.
chezzo
Something else-
Sometimes when I open Flock, even though it's maximised, it still has a resize triangle in the bottom right.
The only way to get rid of it seems to be to unmaximise Flock, then maximise it again, then drag at the corner and release it, after which it disappears.
Evan Hamilton
Hey folks,
Thanks for all your help hunting down issues in Flock 2 beta one! FYI, if you post these as separate threads we'll be able to address them with more focus.:
Linux interface issues: Thanks for the screenshot, Chezzo. I've filed a bug for this at https://bugzilla.flock.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13999. You can add yourself to the CC list if you'd like to see how the fix progresses.
@Tym: It's an issue with the extension if you can't get the statusbar addon to work. However, did you know that Flock 2 and Firefox 3 list the status of your download in the statusbar by default?
Drag and drop from FF3: Thanks for pointing this out, Mark B. However, I don't think we officially support dragging from other browsers so I'm not sure this'll get fixed.
Diggman break: Another good catch by Mark B. I've filed a bug at https://bugzilla.flock.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14020. Seeing as it isn't "broken" I don't know if it'll get fixed, but it's filed.
My World column arrows: Thanks for catching that bug, Mark B! We'll file it and crush it!
@John R: I'll have the devs look into this.
Maximization issue: Chezzo, I can't reproduce this but I'll see if the QA team can.
Facebook login issue: Thanks for all the info, everyone! We've filed a bug at https://bugzilla.flock.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14019.
Remember, posting these as separate forum topics means they'll get much more focused attention!
Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
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www.evanhamilton.com/wordpress
Evan Hamilton
Hey John R,
Good catch! The devs think you're onto something here. Would you mind filing this as a bug at bugzilla.flock.com, since you understand it better than I?
Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
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www.evanhamilton.com/wordpress
Modred
Sure thing. Bug 14031 has been submitted.
Note that I've registered since posting that message, in case the change of name throws you at first.
Ben Wood
Back and forward buttons don't work at all on Mac Flock 2! Very strange, and makes the browser basically useless. Those navigation options also don't exist in the right-click menu.d
Insomnius
@Ben Wood: That's strange, I'm using Flock 2.0b1 on a (PPC) Mac and the back and forward buttons work fine. The options are there in the right-click menu as well.
skaboobie
John R's fixes for the symlink problem work for me. Thanks, John!
Adhip Gupta
There is a Grey bar below the status bar which is of no use.
I guess that's the same thing that was there on FF3 RC1.
Evan Hamilton
@Ben Wood: Very weird. Do you have any extensions or themes installed?
@Adhip Gupta: Can you provide a screenshot?
Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
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chezzo
re: google toolbar creating toolbar customisation issues
i never received a response from Google, as I said I suspect they won't bother to spend time fixing bugs for Flock
however, I have found a sort of work-around - the toolbar icons can be rearranged by editing the "current-set" lists for each toolbar in the "localstore.rdf" file in the flock directory
Evan Hamilton
Thanks for the update, chezzo!
Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
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www.evanhamilton.com/wordpress
chezzo
flock 2b2 hasn't fixed any of these :(
Adhip Gupta
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22086236@N06/2692214626/
The screenshot is there. I hope it helps.
And, sorry for the delay. I was on a long vacation! :)