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Flock 0.7.13 Release Notes

Flock 0.7 Release Notes

What you should know before using Flock 0.7

(If you just want to know what changed between 0.7.12 and 0.7.13, see Latest News and Updates.)

Welcome to the 0.7 release of Flock. We are very excited about this product, but please be aware that this is still beta software. It may still have bugs which could cause the settings you save in this browser to be erased, lost, or overwritten.

If you have general questions about Flock, please check out our website at flock.com.

Latest News and Updates

The 0.7.13 Flock Maintenance Patch fixes a Photobucket/MacAfee interaction issue that intermittantly causes a "lost internet connection" error.

Cool Features of Flock 0.7

Here are brief descriptions of some of the features of Flock. For more info, check out our tour.

  • Photos

  • The photobar now allows you to mark photostreams as your favorite and find out when they have new photos
  • Photobucket sub-album and Flickr set browsing and uploading. Allow users to refine photos displayed in photobar by album
  • Photo uploading now supports multiple operations such as cropping, rotating

  • Search

  • Search now includes live web results
  • Fixed a few performance and accuracy problems.

  • My News

  • New feature: My News allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds, be notified when they have new articles, and read them quickly, including saving them for later.

  • Blogging/Web Snippets

  • The blog editor now uses the native Mozilla editor, and has better support for various blog platforms.

  • Favorites

  • The Star button also allows you to mark photostreams as favorites and add RSS feeds to your news.
  • We made multiple performance improvements in Favorites sharing/syncing.
  • The default sharing mode is "share with my other computers".

Importing from other browsers

On install, Flock 0.7 gives you the choice to import as much as it can of your bookmarks/favorites, passwords, cookies, etc. from supported browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. While there are many similarities, there are a few differences with how Flock behaves from these other products.

Favorites in Flock

One major difference you may notice if you have created nested folders of bookmarks/favorites is that these folders are turned into collections, and Flock only supports one level of collection (no "nesting", or collections within collections, are currently supported). Flock also "tags" the favorites in these folders with the name of the folder.

For example, if you had some folders and favorites such as these:

After importing into Flock, you would wind up with four collections: "Pets", "Cats", "Dogs", and "Labradors". Each of these collections would have one favorite, tagged with the name of the folder it came from, plus any "parent" folders. For example, the American Kennel Club favorite in "Dogs" would have the tags "Pets" and "Dogs", and be in a collection called "Dogs".

Since the Star button makes it so easy to mark a page as a favorite, and search makes it easy to find again, you may find searching for your favorites becomes an easier way for you to navigate them, and not miss your nested folders! However, in a future release, we hope to have a smoother way for people who are used to nested folders and a bookmarks/favorites sidebar to use Flock.

Known Issues In Flock

Despite all of the cool stuff we have added, there are still plenty of things we are still working on. So with a promise to tackle these ASAP, here is a list of some of the things that currently don't work:

  • In the favorites manager, you can no longer view your favorites by tag. You can see the tags for individual favorites, and use the search field to find favorites by tag.
  • On Windows, can't upload photos from a camera directly.
  • Can't re-order collections.
  • No way to export Favorites to a file.
  • Can only import Firefox settings and bookmarks on first run.
  • On Linux, dragging photo from desktop to comment field does not work.

Finally, there is a list of several hundred bug reports and ideas for feature improvements.