Part 2 of my pre-season post covers the Flock web browser settings for the 30 Day Challenge in 2008. As usual, at the end is a checklist of action items.

Flock Web Browser Settings and Tips

1. Go to Tools -> Options and under Feeds tab, change “Subscribe to the feed using:” option to Google (highlighted in red).
   
   
2. Under the Searching tab, change default engine to Google (highlighted in blue) and “Live results…” to Technorati and Favorites and Recently Visited (highlighted in green).
   
   
3. Sign up for a Google Reader account and add www.tubbynerd.com and www.thirtydaychallenge.com/blog/ to Google Reader by clicking the orange RSS icon (highlighted in red).
   
   
4. Type “about:config” into the address bar of Flock (highlighted in red).
5. In the filter type network.http (highlighted in blue).
6. Locate the setting network.http.pipelining and double click it to change the value from false to true (highlighted in green).
7. Do the same as above to network.http.proxy.pipelining (highlighted in green).
8. Double click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and change the value to 30 or higher. I put mine as 36 which is my age :) (highlighted in green).
   
   
9. Restart Flock for the settings to take effect.

Action Items for changing Flock web browser’s settings

1. Change feed reader in Flock to Google Reader.
2. Change search settings in Flock to Google.
3. Sign up for a Google Reader Account.
4. Subscribe to www.tubbynerd.com and www.thirtydaychallenge.com/blog/ via Google Reader.
5. Change network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining to true.
6. Change network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 30 or higher.
7. Restart Flock.