Flock 2.0 beta is out, based on Firefox 3

http://www.flock.com/beta/download/

Here's how to install per Flock Website: See post #7 for a simpler/better way to install system wide

Flock is not yet packaged for any Linux distribution (with the notable exception of Ultima Linux).

This guide should work for most distributions of Linux

Before you install Flock on Linux, please note:

* The Flock binaries are only for GNU/Linux on x86
* libstdc++5 is required

Installing Flock on Linux is relatively easy. First, download the latest version of Flock and save it to your home folder.

Open up a terminal window and enter the following:

tar -C /home/yourusername -xzvf flock-*.linux-i686.tar.gz

Make sure you change the actual filename to match the version you have downloaded. This command extracts the contents of the package to your home folder

Now that you have done that, we need a desktop entry:

gedit /home/yourusername/Flock.desktop

You can use your preferred text editor, gedit is being used simply for example.

Enter the following in to the new file:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Flock
Comment=Flock Web Browser
Exec=”/home/yourusername/flock/flock”
GenericName=Flock Web Browser
Icon=/home/yourusername/flock/icons/mozicon128.png
Path=$HOME/flock
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=
Categories=Network;Application;
GenericName[en_US]=Flock Web Browser

This creates a desktop shortcut to run Flock in your home folder. Feel free to drag it on to your panel or desktop to make it more convenient to access.

There you go! You’re all set to start using Flock

 

Wooh! Flock!

 

I'm installing now....

 

I used the original Flock browser before, was a little impressed with some of the innovative features it had built right into the browser. Haven't used Flock 2 yet, but I'm willing to give it a test drive.

What are the major difference b/t Flock 2.0 and FF3?

 

i used flock when it first came out. it was pretty neat with all its "social" features, but eventually became too bulky for my liking. i actually used it over firefox for a bit because the the rss reader built into it.

 

Ya, 1.0 improved it a lot, and as did 1.2, but Flock 2 should be great.

 

I didn't install it per above, but rather just did a "sudo file-roller" in terminal and extracted it to /etc/

Then added a menu item pointing to flock-browser in /etc/flock/ and added a nice custom flock icon. Superb browser...runs FF3 Extensions (most) for those that arent' aware. IMO, the best browser we have for Linux.

 

How stable is it?

What's the biggest difference between this and FF3?

 

I use it Vista, when I'm there, as my primary browser. It seems stable. Biggest difference is the cleaner interface, and it might be a little faster (they claim so anyway, may be true.) It's pretty obvious more work went into Flock than Firefox, but they are riding on their coat-tails, but that's ok by me