Flock 1.0.1 Release Notes and Known Issues

Flock 1.0 delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users are in control and more connected to what's important to them. By automatically managing updates and media from popular social services such as Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, and Twitter, Flock makes sharing with friends and services drag-and-drop easy.

These Release Notes contain information about what's new in this release as well as known issues that we'd like you to be aware of.

What's New

New Features

• Flock 1.0 has added a "People" sidebar to support new service integration with Facebook and Twitter.
• Flickr and Youtube have been promoted to "People" services.
• Several performance and stability enhancements have been implemented and several memory leaks have been fixed.

New Services

Flock has added People services for Facebook and Twitter

New Mozilla Updates

Flock 1.0.1 has all Mozilla enhancements and security patches up to 2.0.0.9

Known Issues

• Several Firefox extensions including FireFTP and Chatzilla are known to be incompatible with Flock's toolbar causing icons to be misplaced or missing.
• Your Windows account must have administrator priviliges to install Flock. This restriction will be removed in an upcoming Flock release.
• Flock has been tested for users with up to two thousand friends. Beyond a thousand friends, unforeseen challenges may exist. Closing the People sidebar may return your surfing speed to normal. If you are incredibly popular with more than 2000 friends, we would love to hear about how the People sidebar is working for you. Please send your feedback to popularitycontest at flock.com.
• Facebook friends will occasionally not show up in the people sidebar. To fix this problem, open the Accounts and Services sidebar (click on the key symbol) and find your facebook account in the topmost field. Click on "Forget Account." Then log back into facebook, and your friends should appear in the people sidebar.
• When uploading to Facebook, if no album is specified, the photo will be uploaded to a default album for the application, which will be created if necessary. Regular albums have a size limit of 60 photos. Default application albums have a size limit of 1000 photos.
• Clearing your Twitter status causes an alert to show up indicating "An Error Updating Your Status". Twitter does not allow an empty status message.
• Flock is unable to upload files with the “.jpeg” extension to Piczo.
• When uploading photos to Piczo, photos uploaded to the "New Pictures" album will not appear in the media bar. They will, however, be visible from Piczo's website.
• When uploading to any media service, immediately afterwards, the user account's name will not be visible at the top of the Media Stream dropdown.
• Accessing own private Photobucket photos when not logged in to Photobucket does not bring you to the Photobucket login page.
• If for some reason the upload process fails, perhaps a network connection issue, tags and descriptions associated with the photos will be lost.
• When using Hotmail in plain text, dragging a picture from the media bar the email recipient will receive blank content.
• Some valid Flickr accounts are not discoverable through the media search bar.
• Flock will not auto discover your account when logging into Ma.gnolia using your Facebook account ID.
• If your computer's clock is too slow or fast, you may experience errors when publishing your favorites to Del.icio.us or Ma.gnolia.
• Drag'n Dropping a local favorites folder onto your Online favorites does not work correctly. A folder with no name is created that includes a blank favorite.
• When customizing the blog editor toolbar, the customize window has duplicate icons.
• Replacing a Blogsome blog entry does not work correctly.
• Replacing a self-hosted Wordpress blog entry does not work correctly.
• Craigslist searches will not show up in the search flyout when searching from the browser's search box.
• Web clipboard content don’t always migrate when updating Flock from 0.9 to 1.0.
• Photos dragged to the uploader but not yet uploaded will not migrate when updating Flock.
• When importing IE settings and starting Flock for the first time, if two or more sites are set as home pages, Flock will only import one of those pages.
• Firefox live bookmarks not always handled properly during import.
• Firefox bookmarks are not being indexed when imported. The Flock star will not highlight when one of these pages are visited nor will it show up in search from the search bar.