Dan Burkhardt, Marketing Vice President of Flock Web social browser announced yesterday, that they have come up with their second beta version for Flock 2.

“Everybody loves the latest improvements Mozilla’s Firefox 3 technology: much improved performance, tighter security and improved usability. However, what if you could have all of those great features AND all of the award-winning innovations that Flock offers? (That would be the integrated People, Media, WebMail, Photo Uploader, Blog Editor, Feed Reader, and more.) Today, we’re making our second beta of Flock 2 available for everyone to enjoy, and you can take your browsing experience from great…to UN-BE-LIEVABLE for free.”

Flock 2 Beta (two) includes over 175 bug fixes, and incorporates Mozilla’s Firefox latest security and stability patch from their 3.0.1 release. Flock 2 Beta (two) is fast, even more stable and polished.

Now you can have the best of both worlds. Flock 2 includes all of the award-winning Flock features that people are raving about, PLUS all of the enhancements introduced by the latest FireFox 3 technology from Mozilla.

I prefer to wait until the finished product is ready, in a bid to avoid all the crashing and freezing which takes place with most beta software. Remember what they say about the pioneers being the ones with the arrows in their backs.

However, if you are one of the braves at heart, and want to participate in the adventure of trying out a beta software, you can go ahead and download Flock Beta (two) by clicking here. Good Luck!

The SeaMonkey Development Team announced Tuesday their latest stability and security patch identified as version 1.1.11.  SeaMonkey 1.1.11 closes several security vulnerabilities and fixes several smaller problems found in previous versions. With that, SeaMonkey stays at the same level of security as its sibling Mozilla Firefox 2, which is issuing updates for the same problems this week as well.

The SeaMonkey Team urges users of older SeaMonkey versions, including the SeaMonkey 1.0.x series, which no longer receives security updates, to upgrade. Additionally, the team continues to strongly urge people still using the old Mozilla Suite or Netscape 4, 6 or 7 to upgrade to the new SeaMonkey 1.1.11 version.

All these older software packages suffer from a large and steadily increasing number of security vulnerabilities because they are no longer being maintained. SeaMonkey 1.1.11 is a modern, drop-in replacement, providing the same familiar suite functionality with additional features and fully up to date security.

SeaMonkey 1.1.11 is available for free download by clicking here. Good Day!

As part of Mozilla Corporation’s ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 3.0.1 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download from their main website.

Exactly one month after the original Firefox 3.0 release comes its first security and stability update labeled Firefox 3.0.1, the first also to feature the new three digit numbering method instead of previous 4-digit scheme.

Firefox 3.0.1 fixed several issues found in Firefox 3:

• Fixed several security issues.
• Fixed several stability issues.
• Fixed an issue where the phishing and malware database did not update on first launch.
• Under certain circumstances, Firefox 3.0 did not properly save the SSL certificate exceptions list.
• Updated the internal Public Suffix list.
• In certain cases, installing Firefox 2 in the same directory in which Firefox 3 has been installed resulted in Firefox 2 being unstable. This issue was fixed as part of Firefox 2.0.0.15.
• Fixed an issue where, when printing a selected region of content from the middle of a page, some of the output was missing (bug 433373).
• Fixed a Linux issues where, for users on a PPP connection (dialup or DSL) Firefox always started in “Offline” mode (bug 424626).

The Mozilla Development Team strongly recommends that all Firefox users upgrade to this latest release. If you already have Firefox 3.0, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This update can also be applied manually by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu.