I have been using Flock ever since I put up the post and well, a scary thing I came to notice was that the more websites you viewed, the slower your computer became. I have a machine with a GB of RAM and about 1533MB of Virtual Memory! If your system has to become sluggish, it obviously means two things
- some process is eating up CPU cycles, possibly on a lock
- you are runing outta memory!
I immediately pulled up taskmanager to find out a scary number, which I see normally only in office, where in I am running frameworks after frameworks of code running on my development machine. Flock was holding about 1.5GB of virtual memory!
I am hazarding a few guesses
- Flock is actually holding the website content you are viewing through the web and all the book-keeping related to it in its memory cache?
- Flock is having a serious memory leak
Will do more testing on this. And also make an obeservations to the folks over @ Flock about this. It’s still crazy if your web-browser is holding about 500MB of your precious RAM and 1.5GB of your virtual memory space. Sooper scary!! 
!! What’s happening to the world where in you could easiy browse comfortably and blog with just a 512MB machine, the RAM essentially required for your OS rather than the webbrowser!
flock sux, me thinks. so dropped it long back.
wrote a review
back in ‘05
Lol, memory leak, haven’t tried flock yet, but me finds FF also has same problems. It drags memory of memory and hence I dont use it much. Preferrably, being an MS fan and Professional, I prefer sticking with IE 7, and btw, to all MS fighters out there, VISTA rocks!
Inspite of the flocking of memory by Flock [ok that was unintentional], I kinda find it pretty good
! Forget the discrepancies of the blog editor, forget the flickr integration, the bookmarks management is good, altho, I’d rather that they give us a config option, where in starring a page directly sends it to del.icio.us or at least brings us the dialogue box wherein we can share the bookmark!!
I also ran into same problem of Memory hogging but with Firefox. Flock always seems to be working steadily for me [most of the times both the browsers are running on my machine at the same time].
well, i had the same issues too, had flock running on a core 2 duo machine with 2 gigs of ram…. i had approx 10 pages open, and wham.. everything starts moving slowly… dropped it… even though FF takes up a lot of memory.. i am in love with it… the browsing experience is too streamlined with it…
IE7 has a long way to go as far as operating speeds are concered… but hey .. who cares?
psst.. check this out: “http://www.ie7.com”
@ Tariq: Hey, Flock team have announced a release for this issue.
! It’s coming out tomorrow. You mite wanna give it a whirl then. I am still in love with flock, coz the integration with WordPress and flickr is simply amazing. Furthermore, the look and feel + del.icio.us integration is very useful for keeping track of your bookmarks 
!