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One of the joys of using either Firefox or Flock is that both of them allow you to extend the functionality of the browser. What that means is that if you need for your browser to do some specific thing that it doesn't already do, you, or in my case somebody else, can write a mini-application called an «extension» that provides the ability to do what you want it to. By using extensions, users can choose to install only those additional features to their browser that they actually need and want to use.

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This morning I've been experimenting with Flock. For instance, here is one of my experiments.

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Last night, the first official beta of Flock (version 0.7) became available for download from their web site.  Because I have been referring to Flock here at my blog since late last year, most of you regular readers have at least some inkling that it is a web browser that is based on Firefox.  This morning I'd like to recommend that you get some first hand experience with it.  And even though this is a beta release, my own experience with it since last October indicates that it is certainly stable enough now to take for a spin so you can discover some of the conveniences it offers.

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There are lots of ways to get your news, more now than ever before.  One of those ways is RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds, that I've written about before. 

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As any of you regular readers know, I've been using Flock as my primary web browser since back in November of 2005, despite the fact that it is only a «developer's pre-release» version. I've commented on its features, its family and even its failures. And I have also admitted that, in recent weeks, I've been installing a new build each morning. A progress report is now in order, I think.

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I have finally regained my connection to the Internet this afternoon. Yesterday morning when I awoke, I found that my Comcast connection to the Internet was intermittently connecting but wouldn't sustain the connection. At the end of the day, I called tech support and they had me perform a couple of tests and then concluded they would have to send out a technician to try to resolve the issue.

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I have previously blogged about the virtue (as I see it) of being able to customize your applications to your own preferences. This afternoon I see that Daryl has made a plea for such customization of a feature in Flock, the alerts he receives from the Flickr Photo browser. He said:

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At least the "Blog this" function at Flickr enables me to post a picture as the previous entry illustrates, however neither changing the theme nor trying to post a small version of a picture instead of a large one works yet when dragging pictures to the blog editor in Flock. Despite this, it still doesn't seem as if it is the blog editor in Flock that is at fault. Here's why I think that. When I create the post, the blog editor saves a copy of the post on my hard disk. I can look at that .html file and in the version on my hard disk, everything looks normal. So it seems that something in the process of publishing the post to WordPress.com strips out a part of the code and therefore causes the picture not to appear. That is true with the two themes I have tried this morning, so I'm not convinced that it is due to the theme I am using. Fortunately, Erwan and Daryl are looking into this problem to see if they can diagnose what is causing it and perhaps fix that.

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