Ed Dale talks about setting up Flock

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Ed Dale, who’s 30 Day Challenge is usually entertaining and illuminating, especially on the social networking techniques, is a keen user of the Flock browser.

In this video he shows some useful settings to improve the browser’s performance.

Tags: flock, settings, speed, ed dale, 30dc

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