I have the same problem. I noticed that Flock is slow and have few crashes, had to restart the Flock a few times...

One thing that you can do it's to delete all your feeds.
It's works for me. Also dont install extensions that are know to eat memory and get trouble with the main code.
I think that the chrome UI of Flock is very heavy too and so bad. It fills almost all of the browsing screen...

Hey Lords and ladies,
just stole this of CNET TV today, will help speed up loading times a little

[1] type about:config into the address bar at the top and wait for page to load
[2] in the filter type network.http
[3] locate the strand called network.http.pipelining and double click it to change the value from false to true

[4] Do the same to network.http.proxy.pipelining
[5] Then locate network.http.pipelining.maxrequests - double click and change the value to 30 or higher

[6] Finally, close flock and load it up again

This should speed up the loading of web pages a little, don't know if it will help with your problem though... but it did speed something up :D

Angry-mobs fight to keep the peace (irony at its best)

That's a great tip, thanks.

Also you can try the Firefox extension faster fox. It does the same thing and more that Angry-mob talked about but its in a better interface, easier to use, and it give a little bar at the bottom right of your browser that tell you how much time its taken to load the page your on.

* I'm thinking about making a Flock version of Faster Fox. It would be Faster Flock then *

Thanks Angry-mob...works for me too. I di think that Flock is superior to Firefox. Firefox was a pig on my sys which isn't and that's why Flock gets my vote...even over Opera or any other browser I've ever used and I've used a lot since 1987.

Observation, Orientation, Decision, Action - OODA!

I tried Angry-mob's trick and it speeds up page loads a lot. However, flickr is still pretty slow. There seems to be an initial pause when loading any flickr photo page. I get something similar with Youtube videos.

I'm guessing Flock is trying to load something up in the media bar or something, which is why it's slowing down. It would be nice to have the option to disable accounts in the media bar permanently.

1 - Type 'about:config' in the address bar
2 - Type network in the filter
3 - Find network.http.pipelining and double click on it.
4 - Find network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set the value from '4' to 30.
5 - Find network.http.proxy.pipelining and double-click on it
ENJOY!

Hi - So - is this tweak necessary in flock2.0+?

Flock 2.0 is quite a bit faster, in part due to memory and code improvements from Firefox.

The tweaks suggested by Angry-Mob and Ameya may make your web browsing a bit quicker. Changing maxrequests means that if you have a page with 20 images on it, rather than ask the server for 4 images at a time, the browser will try to ask for all 20 images at the same time. If you have a fast internet connection, this may help load the page quicker.

The pipelining trick means this: normally, the browser makes separate connections to the server for each resource (image, Flash, etc.) that it needs. With HTTP pipelining, the browser will make one connection to the server and request multiple resources within the same connection. The server will then respond back with the data in the same response. Not all web servers support HTTP pipelining. Per the Wikipedia article for HTTP pipelining, this technique can be helpful if you have a slower connection.

If you're tried Flock 2.0 and you're pretty happy with how fast web pages are loading, then don't change anything.

Why doesn't Flock just ask what your link up is like :

Dail up
Broad Band
etc. ect.

Just a Suggestion