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Portable Flock

I found a older version of it would love to find a newer version any help would be appreciated.

www.flock.com

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For those that don't know...

According to wikipedia:

Flock is a web browser built on Mozilla’s Firefox codebase. Flock integrates various blog, news aggregation, and social networking sites including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Blogger, and others. When users log in to any of the 15 supported social services, the browser asks them if it should remember their account. If a user does so, Flock will announce when friends have uploaded photos or published other items. The browser claims to "allow easy media sharing via drag and drop, easy photo uploading, and a built-in blog editor for easy posting from anywhere on the web."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_%28web_browser%29

Read this, too. Seems there's some disputes over licencing...

FLOCK BROWSER END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT 
The accompanying executable code version of the Flock browser and related documentation ("Product") is made available under the terms of this End-User Software License Agreement ("Agreement"). IF YOU CLICK "ACCEPT" OR INSTALL OR USE THE PRODUCT, YOU UNCONDITIONALLY CONSENT TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS HEREIN, DO NOT CLICK "ACCEPT" AND DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THIS PRODUCT. Source code for this Product is available for use, modification and distribution under open source licenses at www.flock.com. Nothing in this Agreement will be construed to limit any rights granted under such open source licenses. 
Flock grants you a non-exclusive license to use the executable code version of the Product. Flock and its licensors shall retain all intellectual property rights in the Product, except for the rights expressly granted in this Agreement. You may not remove or alter any trademark, or logo (collectively, "Marks"), copyright or other proprietary notice on the Product. This license does not grant you any right to use Marks of Flock or its licensors. If you breach this Agreement, the above license and your right to use the Product will terminate immediately and without notice, but all other terms of this Agreement will survive termination and continue in effect. Upon termination, you must destroy all copies of the Product. Except as expressly and unambiguously permitted by this Agreement, you shall not, nor permit anyone else to, directly or indirectly: (i) copy, modify, or distribute the Product; or (ii) reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile or otherwise attempt to discover the source code or structure, sequence and organization of any portion of the Product that is not distributed in source code form (except to the extent applicable law prohibits such restrictions). 

This is only part of the discussion. Here's a link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Flock_%28web_browser%29#Disputed:_inst...
A summery is that not all is as open source for Flock as we may wish it to be.

Otherwise, I'd be intrested in seeing this done, too. Or at least a launcher.

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Closed Source

I'm pretty sure that, while Flock was originally GPLed, it now includes closed source components. As it is based on Firefox code which is tri-licensed (MPL, GPL, LGPL), they could, under the MPL, combine Firefox code with closed components and release it without releasing the full source. The EULA seems to state that it includes closed source code.

If that's the case then it's a shame as I have a completely working Flock-branded launcher that I had permission from the Flock team to release with their trademarks intact.

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Just to note

Firefox's standard distribution includes closed source components too (the Talkback extension).

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This has been done

.. but not here.

I found a portable launcher based on Johns Firefox portable which I believe was Flock version 0.7. It has however upgraded itself to the latest version (in the same way Firefox does) without any problems.

I dont use it that often, maybe open it up a few times a week. Its no replacement for Firefox, but what it does it does pretty well. If the new GMail and Yahoo! mail interfaces are as slick as some of their others I may use it more.

It could certainly do with Johns magic (Firefox) touch, so I hope it can be done here at some point.

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Try

self.path = path if self.path == None else self.path

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try

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