He're a concept--what if you guys played around with taking the best of your browser, the new open-source V8 JavaScript engine and multithreading concepts from Google Chrome, and the Gecko engine, and made a fast web-app ready new version of Flock?
Flock would be unstoppable.
Josh_C
Is this feasible?
zx50
I always think rendering speed should be increased (if possible) each time groups improve on their browser in the next release. Even though Flock has GREAT speed at the minute, it really does, I still think there can never be too much speed unless there's a boundary. Maybe they could make it multi threaded, if it's not already that is. Google Chrome tends to be a bit like the Safari browser, which I'm not too satisfied with after being on it for about half a day. I like the way Flock brings up the images separately, but very fast though. I'm just wondering whether this V8 Javascript engine would affect the way it rendered pages? I really love the way it renders pages at the minute, and would hate this to change to the likes of Safari or whatever.
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see http://www.flock.com/node/63742
considering flock is basically firefox with a few addons, flock will do whatever firefox does, so i'd be addressing that question to mozilla!
ChrisVance
There's a reason Google Chrome looks a bit like the Apple Safari browser: they both use the same HTML rendering engine (WebKit). While I'm not familiar with the Flock/Firefox architecture, I'd imagine switching to using the WebKit engine would be time-intensive.
The Flock 2.0 beta has the speed improvements from Firefox 3. If you haven't used either browser, you should like the performance when compared to Flock 1.2.
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http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/mozilla-committed-to-gecko.ars